A young man breaks into a nurse’s rooming house and one-by-one kills off nurses. Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
Kiri-no-hata AKA Sweet Revenge (1977) Katsumi Nishikawa, Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Rentarô Mikuni
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. Read More »
Kunoichi ninpô-chô: Yagyû gaiden AKA Kunoichi: Lady Ninja (1998) Hitoshi Ozawa, Yûko Moriyama, Kazuki Takeda, Momoka Saeki
Yuko Moriyama stars in this ninja period piece as one of seven women determined Read More »
Yotsuya Kaidan (1956) Masaki Môri, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Akemi Tsukushi, Chieko Sôma
Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. Read More »
Blue Rain Osaka (1983) Masaru Konuma, Kiriko Shimizu, Saeko Kuga, Ryûmei Azuma
From director Masaru Konuma comes this tale of sorrow and nostalgia mixed with pop songs and feminine strength. Read More »
Gokuaku bozu – Nomu utsu kau AKA Wicked Priest 5: Breaking the Commandments (1971) Buichi Saitô, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Bunta Sugawara, Takashi Shimura
As the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a village headman fighting corruption from up above. Read More »
Shin Jingi no Hakaba AKA Graveyard of Honor (2002) Takashi Miike, Ryo Amamiya, Narimi Arimori, Yoshiyuki Daichi
A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss’ life and thus makes his way up in the organization. Read More »
Gokuaku bozu nenbutsu sandangiri AKA Wicked Priest 4: Killer Priest Comes Back (1970) Takashi Harada, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Bunta Sugawara, Ichirô Nakatani
This tale begins as Shinkai runs into his childhood friend, Takagano (Ichiro Nakatani), in a gambling hall where he has been trying to cheat the house. Read More »
Gokuaku bôzu: nenbutsu hitokiri tabi AKA Wicked Priest 3 (1969) Takashi Harada, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Minoru Ôki, Bunta Sugawara
Shinkai comes to the aid of a coastal village being held hostage by a group of political revolutionaries. Read More »
Gokuaku bozu hitokiri kazoe uta AKA The Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder (1970) Takashi Harada, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Asao Koike, Bunta Sugawara
The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury as Shinkai Read More »
Gokuaku bôzu AKA Wicked Priest (1968) Kiyoshi Saeki, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Kenjirô Ishiyama, Tsu Ishiyama
During the Taisho Period (early 1920’s) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two factions. Read More »
Bôkô Kirisaki Jakku AKA Assault! Jack the Ripper (1976) Yasuharu Hasebe, Tamaki Katsura, Yuri Yamashina, Natsuko Yashiro
Two restaurant employees begin a torturous and sexual killing spree after they accidentally kill Read More »
Yawarakai seikatsu AKA It’s Only Talk (2005) Ryuichi Hiroki, Shinobu Terajima, Etsushi Toyokawa, Akira Emoto
Yuko is 35 years old, single, out of work, and on medication from her psychiatrist to combat her manic depression. Read More »
Zan AKA Killing (2018) Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Yû Aoi, Sôsuke Ikematsu
Set during the tumultuous mid-19th century Edo period of Japan Read More »
Nobi AKA Fires on the Plain (2014) Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Lily Franky, Tatsuya Nakamura
A Japanese soldier endures illness, starvation and brutality in the Philippines at the tail end of WW2. Read More »