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Tag Archives: Japan
Good Morning AKA Ohayô (1959) Yasujirô Ozu, Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishû Ryû
This movie takes a look at a Westernized suburban area in Japan in the late ’50s. Read More »
Band of Assassins AKA Shinsengumi (1969) Tadashi Sawashima, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Kin’ya Kitaôji
Feudal Japan. Kamo Serizawa and Isami Kondo turn a collection of student fencers into a band of assassins Read More »
Madame White Snake AKA Byaku fujin no yoren (1956) Shirô Toyoda, Ryô Ikebe, Shirley Yamaguchi, Kaoru Yachigusa
Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form. Read More »
The Ambush: Incident at Blood Pass AKA Machibuse (1970) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Yûjirô Ishihara, Ruriko Asaoka
In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Read More »
Tales of Ginza AKA Ginza 24 chou (1955) Yûzô Kawashima, Tatsuya Mihashi, Yumeji Tsukioka, Mie Kitahara
When she was a little girl, Wakako Kyoguku’s portrait was painted by a talented young artist. Read More »
Immortal Love AKA Eien no hito (1961) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideko Takamine, Keiji Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai
The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner’s son (Nakadai) Read More »
Mother AKA Haha (1963) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Haruko Sugimura, Homizu Aratani
Tamiko is a divorced mother with a seriously ill son, struggling to save him and give both a sense of their existence. Read More »
Samurai Saga AKA Aru kengo no shogai (1959) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Akira Takarada
Edmund Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. Read More »
Strawberry Shortcakes (2006) Hitoshi Yazaki, Chizuru Ikewaki, Noriko Nakagoshi, Yûko Nakamura
Based on the eponymous manga for girls by cartoonist Kiriko Nananan, the pic follows the ups Read More »
Gemini AKA Sôseiji (1999) Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Masahiro Motoki, Ryô, Yasutaka Tsutsui
Yukio is living a charmed life: he is a respected young doctor with a successful practice and a beautiful wife. Read More »
Lady Snowblood AKA Shurayukihime (1973) Toshiya Fujita, Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon
Yuki’s family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. Read More »
Bashing (2005) Masahiro Kobayashi, Fusako Urabe, Nene Ohtsuka, Takayuki Katô
Yuko volunteered to be an aid worker in Iraq and was taken hostage there. Read More »
My Way AKA Waga michi (1974) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Rokkô Toura
Based on a true story, an elderly women resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband’s dead body Read More »
The Sand City in Manchuria AKA Sabaku o Wataru Taiyo (1960) Kiyoshi Saeki, Sô Yamamura, Ken Takakura, Koji Tsuruta
A young doctor must save townspeople from a threatening plague. Read More »