A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
Love/Juice (2000) Kaze Shindô, Mika Okuno, Chika Fujimura, Toshiya Nagasawa
Twenty-something lesbian Chinatsu shares a one-bedroom apartment with heterosexual Kyoko. Read More »
Black Lizard AKA Kurotokage (1962) Umetsugu Inoue, Machiko Kyô, Minoru Ôki, Junko Kanô
Kurotokage (1962, aka Black Lizard) has its origins in a 1934 detective novel Read More »
The Bad Sleep Well AKA Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (1960) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa
It is a high-profile wedding: the daughter of Mr Iwabuchi, a wealthy businessman Read More »
Tora-san 34 AKA Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajirô shinjitsu ichiro (1984) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Masami Shimojô
Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salary man Read More »
Tora-san 33 AKA Otoko wa tsurai yo: Yogiri ni musebu torajiro (1984) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Rie Nakahara
In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san’s family prepares for a wedding. Read More »
Distant Justice (1992) Tôru Murakawa, Bunta Sugawara, David Carradine, George Kennedy
After his daughter is kidnapped and his wife murdered by drug dealers Read More »
Little Cheung AKA Xilu xiang (1999) Fruit Chan, Yuet-Ming Yiu, Wai-Fan Mak, Yuet-Man Mak
In 1997, Little Cheung is a street-wise nine-year-old boy living in a bustling neighbourhood of Hong Kong Read More »
Judgment Night (1993) Stephen Hopkins, Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Denis Leary
Four pals are on their way to a boxing match, but get stuck in heavy traffic. Read More »
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle AKA Onoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle (2021) Arthur Harari, Yûya Endô, Kanji Tsuda, Yûya Matsuura
When Japan surrenders at the end of World War II, soldier Hiroo Onoda Read More »
Genghis Khan and His Mongols AKA Kogan no misshi (1959) Tai Katô, Hashizô Ôkawa, Yoshio Yoshida, Jun Tazaki
Over 1,000 years ago, Mt. Fumi violently erupted, sending fiery fumes Read More »
Battle of Wits AKA Mo gong (2006) Chi Leung ‘Jacob’ Cheung, Andy Lau, Sung-Ki Ahn, Zhiwen Wang
In 370 B.C, China was separated as seven nations and several other small tribes Read More »
The Milkwoman AKA Itsuka dokusho suruhi (2005) Akira Ogata, Den Fujita, Keisuke Horibe, Teruyuki Kagawa
A 50-year-old unmarried milkwoman Minako one day delivers milk to the house of her first love Read More »
Tora-san 32 AKA Otoko wa tsurai yo: Kuchibue wo fuku Torajirô (1983) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Keiko Takeshita
When his travels bring him to Western Japan, Tora-san decides to pay his respects Read More »