A young girl is sold into a red-light district brothel and tries to adapt to life as an oiran (courtesan). Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
Yamato (California) AKA Yamato (Kariforunia) (2016) Daisuke Miyazaki, Nina Endô, Hanae Kan, Reiko Kataoka
Moody teenager SAKURA shares a small house with her mother and brother Read More »
Cruel Story of the Shogunate’s Downfall AKA Bakumatsu zankoku monogatari (1964) Tai Katô, Sumiko Fuji, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Isao Kimura
A headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but as his determination impresses Read More »
Hiroshima (1995) Koreyoshi Kurahara, Roger Spottiswoode, Lynne Adams, Wesley Addy, Allen Altman
Harry Truman, the successor to the Oval Office after the late President Roosevelt Read More »
Izo (2004) Takashi Miike, Kazuya Nakayama, Kaori Momoi, Ryûhei Matsuda
We begin in 1865, when the Shogunate is on its last legs, but still capable of punishing its enemies. Read More »
Bedtime Eyes (1987) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Kanako Higuchi, Michael Wright, Michiyo Yasuda
Kim, a singer in a jazz club on a military base, has a partner, Ichiro Read More »
Nobody (1999) Shundo Ohkawa, Toshimichi Ohkawa, Masaya Katô, Jinpachi Nezu, Riki Takeuchi
Three friends find themselves in a bar fight with a shady trio of strangers. Read More »
Live AKA Raivu (2014) Noboru Iguchi, Asami, Yûka Eda, Akiko Ikuina
On the morning of a certain Tuesday, a mysterious “death race” is suddenly announced on television. Read More »
Tora-san Loves an Artist AKA Otoko wa tsurai yo: Watashi no tora-san (1973) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Keiko Kishi
Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Read More »
Westward Desperado AKA Dokuritsu gurentai nishi-e (1960) Kihachi Okamoto, Hideyo Amamoto, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Akihiko Hirata
In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage Read More »
Only On Mondays AKA Getsuyôbi no Yuka (1964) Kô Nakahira, Mariko Kaga, Akira Nakao, Yasukiyo Umeno
Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa Read More »
Manon (1981) Yôichi Higashi, Setsuko Karasuma, Masahiko Tsugawa, Kôichi Satô
The story of the rise and fall of a young courtesan. Read More »
The Face of Jizo AKA Chichi to kuraseba (2004) Kazuo Kuroki, Rie Miyazawa, Yoshio Harada, Tadanobu Asano
Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. Read More »
Run! Ichiro AKA Hashire! Ichiro (2001) Kazuki Ohmori, Masatoshi Nakamura, Yûko Asano, Kazuhisa Kawaguchi
Various individuals named Ichiro undergo life-changing events while being inspired Read More »
No Longer Human AKA Ningen shikkaku: Dazai Osamu to 3-nin no onnatachi (2019) Mika Ninagawa, Yûdai Chiba, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kengo Kôra
Oguri Shun plays Dazai Osamu who is one of the more popular novelists in Japan. Read More »