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The Yakuza Papers 3: Proxy War AKA Jingi naki tatakai: Dairi sensô (1973) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Akira Kobayashi, Tsunehiko Watase
Yakuza boss Shozo Hirono must choose his alliances carefully as the local gangster family Read More »
The Yakuza Papers 5: Final Episode AKA Jingi naki tatakai: Kanketsu-hen (1974) Kinji Fukasaku, Hiroko Fuji, Seizô Fukumoto, Gorô Ibuki
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization Read More »
The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September AKA Kugatsu no joudan kurabu bando (1982) Shunichi Nagasaki, Masato Furuoya, Sachiko Itô, Masao Matsuda
After the death of his friend Tetsuji, Ryo (Takashi Naito) and his biker gang drift apart. Read More »
The Japanese Belly Button AKA Nihonjin no heso (1977) Eizô Sugawa, Mako Midori, Akihiro Miwa, Hajime Hana
Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss. Read More »
Gamblers and Racketeers AKA Bakuto tai tekiya (1964) Shigehiro Ozawa, Kôji Tsuruta, Hiroki Matsukata, Sumiko Fuji
It’s brother against brother and father against son in this all-star yakuza epic. Read More »
Preparation for the Festival AKA Matsuri no junbi (1975) Kazuo Kuroki, Jun Etô, Haruko Mabuchi, Hajime Hana
A young Japanese man comes to the realization that he must leave Read More »
Evil Spirits of Japan AKA Nippon no akuryo (1970) Kazuo Kuroki, Yôsuke Enomoto, Tatsumi Hijikata, Eiko Horii
Murase is a bodyguard in a yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. Read More »
The Gift of Pachamama AKA El regalo de la Pachamama (2008) Toshifumi Matsushita, Christian Huaygua, Luis Mamani, Faniy Mosques
Kunturi is a 13-year old boy living a traditional life with his family near Uyuni, a salt lake. Read More »
Diary of a Mad Old Man AKA Fûten Rôjin nikki (1962) Keigo Kimura, Sô Yamamura, Ayako Wakao, Keizô Kawasaki
Diary of a Mad Old Man is the journal of Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke. Read More »
The Target of Roses AKA Bara no hyôteki (1972) Kiyoshi Nishimura, Yûzô Kayama, Zhen Zhen, Eiji Okada
A gunslinger is hired to kill a news photographer. The young ward of the shot photographer Read More »
Shadow of Deception AKA Naikai no wa (1971) Kôichi Saitô, Shima Iwashita, Akira Nakao, Rentarô Mikuni
Five years ago Minako spent a night with Sozo, the younger brother of her ex-husband. Read More »
The Seburi Story AKA Seburi monogatari (1985) Sadao Nakajima, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Yumiko Fujita, Michiko Kohno
The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject Read More »
Tora-san 44 AKA Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro no kokuhaku (1991) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Hideko Yoshida
When Izumi can’t stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. Read More »
Tora-san 43 AKA Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro no kyuujitsu (1990) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Mari Natsuki
Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad Read More »