Yukio is living a charmed life: he is a respected young doctor with a successful practice and a beautiful wife. Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
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 »
Till We Meet Again AKA Ashita kuru hito (1955) Yûzô Kawashima, Sô Yamamura, Yumeji Tsukioka, Tatsuya Mihashi
Sonejiro sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei Read More »
The Enchantment AKA Yûwakusha (1989) Shunichi Nagasaki, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Masao Kusakari, Kiwako Harada
Love triangles are fun. They are especially fun with the involved including a psychiatrist, his secretary and a patient. Read More »
Heart, Beating in the Dark AKA Yami utsu shinzô (2005) Shunichi Nagasaki, Noriko Eguchi, Shoichi Honda, Kaori Mizushima
A young couple are on the run after killing their baby. They hide out for the night in a dingy apartment. Read More »
Diaries of the Kamikaze AKA Â dôki no sakura (1967) Sadao Nakajima, Hiroki Matsukata, Shin’ichi Chiba, Isao Natsuyagi
This movie is dedicated to desperate young Japanese pilots, during the Second World War. Read More »
Tokyo Chorus AKA Tôkyô no kôrasu (1931) Yasujirô Ozu, Tokihiko Okada, Emiko Yagumo, Hideo Sugawara
Mr. Omura, a teacher, leads a group of male students in an outdoor drill. Read More »
Street of Shame AKA Akasen Chitai (1956) Kenji Mizoguchi, Machiko Kyô, Aiko Mimasu, Ayako Wakao
Five prostitutes work at Dreamland, in Tokyo’s Yoshiwara district. As the Diet considers a ban on prostitution, the women’s daily dramas play out. Read More »
The Life of Oharu AKA Saikaku Ichidai Onna (1952) Kenji Mizoguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai
A fifty-year-old prostitute, no longer able to attract men, looks back on her sad life. Read More »
Twin Sisters of Kyoto (1963) Noboru Nakamura, Shima Iwashita, Hiroyuki Nagato, Seiji Miyaguchi
Two twin girls are separated at birth. One grows up in a loving family. Read More »
Hunters’ Sense of Touch AKA Karyudo-tachi no shokkaku (1995) Hisayasu Satô, Naoto Yoshimoto, Takeshi Itô, Yoji Tanaka
A police detective investigating a vicious string of homosexual murders discovers that the latest Read More »
Women Are Born Twice AKA Onna wa nido umareru (1961) Yûzô Kawashima, Ayako Wakao, Sô Yamamura, Jun Fujimaki
Koen is a geisha who has intimate relationships with several men at once. Read More »