The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro. Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
The Man Who Stole the Sun AKA Taiyô wo nusunda otoko (1979) Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Bunta Sugawara, Kenji Sawada, Kimiko Ikegami
A misfit high-school science teacher decides to build his own atomic bomb. Read More »
Snow Flurry AKA Kazabana (1959) Keisuke Kinoshita, Keiko Kishi, Ineko Arima, Yoshiko Kuga
Set in a rural village in the Shinshu region, this melodrama about lovers of different social classes spans two generations: that of a mother, and her son. Read More »
Ballad of a Worker AKA Futari de aruita iku haru aki (1962) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideko Takamine, Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Read More »
Yakuza Graveyard AKA Yakuza no hakaba: Kuchinashi no hana (1976) Kinji Fukasaku, Tetsuya Watari, Meiko Kaji, Tatsuo Umemiya
When a cop is transferred to a new precinct it is obvious that the area’s yakuza mob Read More »
Before We Vanish AKA Sanpo suru shinryakusha (2017) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Masami Nagasawa, Ryûhei Matsuda, Hiroki Hasegawa
As vanguards of an invasion of the planet three aliens take possession of host bodies and assume human form. Read More »
The Road AKA Jol (2001) Darezhan Omirbayev, Jamshed Usmonov, Saule Toktybayeva, Alnur Turgambayeva
A filmmaker, Kobessov, awakens from an anxiety nightmare: during the preview of his newest film Read More »
The Dream of Garuda AKA Kôkyû sôpu tekunikku 4: Monzetsu higi (1994) Takahisa Zeze, Takeshi Itô, Saki Kurihara, Shirô Shimomoto
A convicted rapist, Ikuo is released from prison and goes in pursuit of the woman he raped, Mieko. Read More »
Lady of the Stable AKA Umagoya no reijô (1991) Hisayasu Satô, Yukinojô, Mineo Sugiura, Rie Asai
Yuu is living with her Ryusei horse on the edge of the sea. Read More »
Temple of the Golden Pavilion AKA Kinkakuji (1976) Yoichi Takabayashi, Saburô Shinoda, Toshio Shiba, Katsuhiko Yokomitsu
The story takes place during the end of the Pacific War and the aftermath period and it focuses on Mizoguchi, who is the son of a Buddhist Priest. Read More »
The Proud Challenge AKA Hokori takaki chosen (1962) Kinji Fukasaku, Kôji Tsuruta, Tetsurô Tanba, Hitomi Nakahara
As the film begins, Kuroki, a journalist for a trade paper, is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. Read More »
Love Exposure AKA Ai no mukidashi (2008) Sion Sono, Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Andô
Three emotionally abused people from the fringes of society get locked in a convoluted love triangle. Read More »
Basara – The Princess Goh AKA Gô-hime (1992) Hiroshi Teshigahara, Rie Miyazawa, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshiya Nagasawa
Chronicles the trials and tribulations of Oribe, the successor to tea-master Rikyu, Usu, his gardener Read More »
The Army AKA Rikugun (1944) Keisuke Kinoshita, Chishû Ryû, Ken Mitsuda, Kazumasa Hoshino
Kinoshita’s ambitious and intensely moving film begins as a multi-generational epic about the military legacy of one Japanese family Read More »
Death Powder AKA Desu pawuda (1986) Shigeru Izumiya, Takichi Inukai, Rikako Murakami
Two people, a man and a woman enters a warehouse that will change their life and minds forever. Read More »