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Tag Archives: Japan
A Tender Place AKA Yawaraka na hou (2001) Shunichi Nagasaki, Yûki Amami, Shunsuke Matsuoka, Tomokazu Miura
The story of a person who is looking for her own daughter. Read More »
Temptation of the Mask AKA Kamen no yûwaku (1987) Hisayasu Satô, Kazuhiro Sano, Kiyoshi Usuda, Naomi Hagio
Sano plays an adopted orphan who is in love with his stepmother and repeatedly raped by his new father. Read More »
Love Hotel AKA Rabu hoteru (1985) Shinji Sômai, Noriko Hayami, Minori Terada, Kiriko Shimizu
Muraki is in debt after a business failure. When he is unable to pay his debtors Read More »
Stranger (1991) Shunichi Nagasaki, Yûko Natori, Kentarô Shimizu, Takashi Naitô
After serving time for a case of bank fraud, Kiriko now lives a lone quiet life working as a taxi driver on night shifts. Read More »
The Human Bullet AKA Nikudan (1968) Kihachi Okamoto, Minori Terada, Naoko Ôtani, Yûnosuke Itô
During World War II, a Japanese soldier finds himself assigned to a kamikaze mission against a U.S. battleship. Read More »
Crazy Love AKA Kureiji Rabu (1968) Michio Okabe, Mami Aoyama, Gulliver, Mitsutaka Ishii
Shot in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo in 1968 when the underground renaissance Read More »
Youth AKA Seishun (1968) Kon Ichikawa
“Youth” is about a nationwide baseball tournament among high-schools organized by the newspaper Asashi Shimbun. Read More »
Tattoo Ari (1982) Banmei Takahashi, Ryûdô Uzaki, Keiko Takahashi, Misako Watanabe
An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman Read More »
Mosquito on the Tenth Floor AKA Jukkai no mosukîto (1983) Yôichi Sai, Yûya Uchida, Ann Lewis, Kyôko Koizumi
Jukkai no Mosukito is the tragic story of a policeman who has never succeeded Read More »
Broken Heart AKA Dai shitsuren (1995) Kazuki Ohmori, Miho Kanno, Miki Mizuno, Miki Nakatani
Eight love stories starts and ends in an amusement park. Read More »
Lake of Tears AKA Umi no koto (1966) Tomotaka Tasaka, Yoshiko Sakuma, Katsuo Nakamura, Ganjirô Nakamura
A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Read More »
The Egoists AKA Keibetsu (2011) Ryuichi Hiroki, Anne Suzuki, Kengo Kôra, Sora Aoi
After losing money with gambling Kazu destroys a nightclub for a Yakuza to clear his debt. Read More »
The Woman of Rumour AKA Uwasa no onna (1954) Kenji Mizoguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tomoemon Otani, Yoshiko Kuga
Hatsuko Umabuchi is a widow who runs a prosperous geisha house in present-day Kyoto. Read More »
Ohyaku: The Female Demon AKA Yôen dokufu-den: Han’nya no Ohyaku (1968) Yoshihiro Ishikawa, Junko Miyazono, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Kunio Murai
A female acrobat and a thief plans to steal the gold from the mint. Read More »