Fumio Yano is an unassuming young businessman in the ski wear line. Read More »
Tag Archives: Hiroshi Mikami
Circus Boys AKA Nijisseiki shônen dokuhon (1989) Kaizô Hayashi, Hiroshi Mikami, Moe Kamura, Jian Xiu
Two brothers, Jinta and Wataru, are raised in a travelling circus. Read More »
Grass Labyrinth AKA Kusa-meikyû (1979) Shûji Terayama, Hiroshi Mikami, Takeshi Wakamatsu, Keiko Niitaka
A young man’s determination to recover the lyrics and music to a song he loved Read More »
Swallowtail Butterfly (1996) Shunji Iwai, Hiroshi Mikami, Chara, Ayumi Itô
After a young girl’s mother dies, she is cared for by Glico, a brassy hooker, who gives the girl the name “Ageha” (Butterfly). Read More »
Negotiator (2003) Takashi Miike, Hiroshi Mikami, Mayu Tsuruta, Shirô Sano
After a convenience store robbery, three unidentified men hold a group of people hostage in a hospital. Read More »
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) Paul Schrader, Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Hiroshi Mikami, Biography, Drama
A fictionalized account in four segments of the life of Japan’s celebrated twentieth-century author Yukio Mishima. Three of the segments parallel events in Mishima’s life with his novels (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Kinkaku-ji), Kyoko’s House, and Runaway Horses), while the fourth depicts 25 November 1970, “The Last Day”…
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