A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
Samurai Rebellion AKA Jôi-uchi: Hairyô tsuma shimatsu (1967) Masaki Kobayashi, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Gô Katô
During peace in 1725, aging swordsman Isaburo is living a henpecked life when his clan Read More »
The Most Dangerous Game AKA Mottomo kiken na yuugi (1978) Tôru Murakawa, Yûsaku Matsuda, Keiko Tasaka, Ichirô Araki
Assassin Narumi is asked to rescue a kidnapped businessman involved in an air defense project. Read More »
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron AKA Kumokiri Nizaemon (1978) Hideo Gosha, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kôshirô Matsumoto, Shima Iwashita
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class Read More »
Mai-chan’s Daily Life: The Movie AKA Mai-chan no nichijô (2014) Sade Satô, Miyako Akane, An Koshi, Shôgo Maruyama
A sadistic place in a remote location put out a help wanted ad luring young teen girls to come work Read More »
Angel Guts: Nami AKA Tenshi no harawata: Nami (1979) Noboru Tanaka, Eri Kanuma, Takeo Chii, Mimi Sawaki
This is the third film in the Angel Guts series. It tells the story of Nami, a young female journalist. Read More »
Her Lonely Lane AKA Hôrô-ki (1962) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Akira Takarada, Daisuke Katô
Fumiko struggles to get her literary work published, spending years working Read More »
Wandering Ginza Butterfly 2: She-Cat Gambler AKA Gincho nagaremono mesuneko bakuchi (1972) Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, Meiko Kaji, Shin’ichi Chiba, Shingo Yamashiro
Nami(played by Meiko Kaji) returns to Tokyo to find the man who killed her father 13 years ago. Read More »
Vacation AKA Kyûka (2008) Hajime Kadoi, Kaoru Kobayashi, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Nene Ohtsuka
The prison guards working in penitentiaries where death row inmates are locked Read More »
Mishima: The Last Debate AKA Mishima Yukio vs Tôdai zenkyôtô: 50 nenme no shinjitsu (2020) Keisuke Toyoshima, Yukio Mishima, Osamu Kimura, Masahiko Akuta
One of Japan’s most important 20th century literary figures, nominated for the Nobel Prize Read More »
Nekomimi (1994) Jun Kurosawa
Experimental film in which three girls and one boy lead playful lives. Read More »
I Will Buy You AKA Anata kaimasu (1956) Masaki Kobayashi, Keiji Sada, Keiko Kishi, Minoru Ôki
Kobayashi’s pitiless take on Japan’s professional baseball industry is unlike any other sports film ever made. Read More »
Tom’s Midnight Garden (1999) Willard Carroll, Nigel Le Vaillant, Marlene Sidaway, Serena Gordon
Young Tom Long is forced to stay with his kindly Aunt and Uncle while his brother recovers from a bout of the measles. Read More »
The Last Ronin AKA Saigo no Chûshingura (2010) Shigemichi Sugita, Kôji Yakusho, Kôichi Satô, Nanami Sakuraba
16 years after the fateful “revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin” involving samurais from the Ako Read More »
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021) Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Kotone Furukawa, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Katsuki Mori
An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding Read More »