The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
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 »
Here Because of You AKA Kimitachi ga ite boku ga ita (1964) Ryuichi Takamori, Ushio Akashi, Shigeko Arai, Shin’ichi Chiba
An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors Read More »
Labyrinth Romanesque AKA Hanazono no meikyu (1988) Shun’ya Itô, Yôko Shimada, Yûya Uchida, Yûki Kudô
Based on Edogawa Ranpo Award winner “Hanazono no Meikyu” by Yoko Yamazaki. Read More »
Harakiri AKA Seppuku (1962) Masaki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Ishihama, Shima Iwashita
Following the collapse of his clan, an unemployed samurai (Tatsuya Nakadai) Read More »
Fatal Beauty (1987) Tom Holland, Whoopi Goldberg, Sam Elliott, Rubén Blades
Rita Rizzoli is a narcotics police officer with a plethora of disguises. Read More »
Man on the Train AKA L’Homme du Train (2002) Patrice Leconte, Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday, Jean-François Stévenin
One evening, a stranger, Milan, arrives in a small French town and enters a pharmacy to buy some aspirin. Read More »
The New Voyage AKA Gakko III (1998) Yôji Yamada, Shinobu Ôtake, Yûki Kuroda, Nenji Kobayashi
A widow who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins Read More »
Forget Love for Now AKA Koi mo wasurete (1937) Hiroshi Shimizu, Michiko Kuwano, Shûji Sano, Jun Yokoyama
The lives of unhappy children and women, particularly mothers Read More »
Minamata: The Victims and Their World AKA Minamata Kanja-san to sono sekai (1971) Noriaki Tsuchimoto
The film focuses on residents who suffered Minamata disease in the nervous system Read More »
Love Letter AKA Rabu retâ (1981) Yôichi Higashi, Keiko Takahashi, Katsuo Nakamura, Mariko Kaga
Yuko is in love with an old poet who happens to be also a married man. Read More »
No More Easy Life AKA Mo hozue wa tsukanai (1979) Yôichi Higashi, Kaori Momoi, Eiji Okuda, Leo Morimoto
A wistful slice-of-life drama about a college student’s attempts to manage her relations with two men. Read More »
Tora-san 42 AKA Otoko wa tsurai yo: Boku no ojisan (1989) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Fumi Dan
The well-intentioned, kind-hearted, and somewhat awkward but always lovable Read More »
Tora-san 40 AKA Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro sarada kinenbi (1988) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Hiroko Mita
In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor Read More »