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Tag Archives: Japan
Lady Ramboh: Kill You! In My Justice AKA Onna Rambo (1994) Ippei Suzuki, Kenji Imai, Hiroyuki Okita, Tanaka Rooza
The lady of the title is an agent of some sort who, in the course of the movie Read More »
Three Outlaw Samurai AKA Sanbiki no samurai (1964) Hideo Gosha, Tetsurô Tanba, Isamu Nagato, Mikijirô Hira
When poor peasants kidnap a magistrate’s daughter to coerce Read More »
Tora-san 5 AKA Otoko wa tsurai yo: Boukyou hen (1970) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Aiko Nagayama
After an encounter with a dying yakuza’s son and at his sister Sakura’s urging Read More »
Tora-san 4 AKA Shin otoko wa tsurai yo (1970) Shun’ichi Kobayashi, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Komaki Kurihara
After winning big at the races, Torajiro wants to take his aunt and uncle Read More »
Tora-san 35 AKA Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajirô ren’ai juku (1985) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Mitsuru Hirata
On the Goto Islands, Tora-san rescues an old lady and befriends her. Read More »
Twinkle AKA Kira kira hikaru (1992) Joji Matsuoka, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Etsushi Toyokawa, Michitaka Tsutsui
Shoko and Mutsuki get married to satisfy their worried parents, but she is well past Read More »
First Love AKA Hatsukoi (2000) Tetsuo Shinohara, Rena Tanaka, Mieko Harada, Mitsuru Hirata
Satoka Aida, a 17-year high school student, comes to know that her mother’s hospitalization Read More »
Saburai: Way of the Bohachi AKA Bôhachi bushidô: Sa burai (1974) Takashi Harada, Keiko Aikawa, Bin Amatsu, Takashi Ebata
The Bohachi Clan, the most vile, corrupt organization with ties deep in the Shogunate Read More »
Typhoon Over Nagasaki AKA Typhon sur Nagasaki (1957) Yves Ciampi, Danielle Darrieux, Jean Marais, Keiko Kishi
Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards Read More »
Wild Criminal AKA Kyôhan (1999) Hide, Riki Takeuchi, Aya Nakamura, Miho Nomoto
Out for revenge after waking up in the trunk of a car, a female thug teams Read More »
Navy Special Young Soldier AKA Kaigun tokubetsu nenshô-hei (1972) Tadashi Imai, Takeo Chii, Mayumi Ogawa, Katsuhiko Sasaki
Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp Read More »
A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth AKA Yôki na gyangu ga chikyû o mawasu (2006) Tetsu Maeda, Takao Ohsawa, Kyôka Suzuki, Shôta Matsuda
Four strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket Read More »
A Song I Remember AKA Hitotsu no uta (2011) Kyoshi Sugita, Yuri Ishizaka, Takenori Kaneko, Kôichi Masuno
At a train station in the suburbs of Tokyo, an accident takes place causing death and injury. Read More »
The Red Silk Gambler AKA Hijirimen bakuto (1972) Teruo Ishii, Eiko Nakamura, Bunta Sugawara, Sanae Tsuchida
With her first love that unfolded in the battlefield in her heart, and with a short sword Read More »