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Tag Archives: Japan
A Geisha (1953) Kenji Mizoguchi, Michiyo Kogure, Ayako Wakao, Seizaburô Kawazu
In the post-war, the sixteen year-old teenager Eiko seeks out the geisha Miyoharu in the district of Gion Read More »
Cruel Ghost Legend (1968) Kazuo Hase, Masumi Harukawa, Nobuo Kaneko, Saeda Kawaguchi
A Samurai kills a Blind Man who tells him to “Repay his debts.” Read More »
My Soul Is Slashed (1991) Shûsuke Kaneko, Ken Ogata, Hideyo Amamoto, Nina Blake
Ken Ogata, a company man, is killed. Accidentally, he is transfused with the blood of Dracula and returned to life. Read More »
Hospitalité (2010) Kôji Fukada, Kenji Yamauchi, Kiki Sugino, Kanji Furutachi
In suburban Tokyo, the Kobayashis – Mikio, his young second wife Natsuki Read More »
Legacy of the 500,000 (1963) Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tsutomu Yamazaki
During the Second World War, Takeichi Matsuo had participated in hiding a huge cache of gold in the Phillippine mountains. Read More »
Crazed Fruit (1956) Kô Nakahira, Yûjirô Ishihara, Masahiko Tsugawa, Mie Kitahara
Bored rich kids. Natsuhisa, 20, constantly teases his brother Haruji, 16, about girls. Read More »
Unperishable Sword (1960) Yasushi Sasaki, Kôji Tsuruta, Hiroko Sakuramachi, Keiko Fujita
Ruby (1992) John Mackenzie, Danny Aiello, Sherilyn Fenn, Frank Orsatti
An exploration of certain conspiracy theories surrounding the JFK assassination from Jack Ruby’s perspective. Read More »
Chaos (2000) Hideo Nakata, Jun Kunimura, Ken Mitsuishi, Masato Hagiwara
A man gets involved in a kidnapping scheme with the wife of a wealthy businessman. Read More »
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969) Nagisa Ôshima, Tadanori Yokoo, Rie Yokoyama, Moichi Tanabe
Story of a bookstore thief named Birdey who is led through various adventures in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko. Read More »
Orchids Under the Moon (1991) Takashi Ishii, Jinpachi Nezu, Kimiko Yo, Shû Nakajima
Jinpachi Nezu who lost both his wife and daughter during a feud against the yakuza 10 years ago while he was an accountant for their organization. Read More »
The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957) Yûzô Kawashima, Furankî Sakai, Sachiko Hidari, Yôko Minamida
Set in the last few years of the shogun’s rule, this period/ensemble movie depicts the lives of the young and the restless at a whorehouse. Read More »
The Sinners of Hell (1960) Nobuo Nakagawa, Shigeru Amachi, Utako Mitsuya, Yôichi Numata
A graduate-school student has a friend who is pure evil. Read More »
Disappear (2005) Hideo Jôjô, Mei Fujishiro, Kaede, Kazuaki Kubo
The high school students Asi, Kwangshu and Yinan have been friends since childhood Read More »