Tag Archives: Hiroshi Abe

The life of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto from the early 1930’s to his death at the hands of the US military in 1943. Read More »

Chokichi Kuwahata was once a leading actor, but he is ravaged by dementia and old age now. Read More »

Dwelling on his past glory as a prize-winning author, Ryota (Hiroshi Abe) wastes the money he makes as a private detective on gambling and can barely pay child support. Read More »

Toshiharu Ikeda makes a return to extreme genre fare with this taut police procedural about serial murder suspects who possess convincing alibis.
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A retired warrior comes to see his former lord and learns that someone is making indestructible swords from some unknown metal. He is sent together with a swordsman to investigate the source. Along the way they meet a young girl working as a beekeeper. She is later witness to the appearance of three strange females from another dimension.
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During the 1950’s, a Tokyo woman from a wealthy family has been pregnant for 20 months while her husband has been missing for a year, apparently after vanishing from inside a locked room. She lives with her mother in a big house that seems to be part of the key for the long delayed delivery. Sekiguchi, a young novelist has a lukewarm interest in the case, sparked by hallucinations or, as they’re called in the film, revelations. The affair is far from private, terrified people ask for police intervention, riot and threaten to break into the house…
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