A female plays a race car driver lends her services to the Japanese Secret Service. Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
Sandakan 8 AKA Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo (1974) Kei Kumai, Komaki Kurihara, Yôko Takahashi, Kinuyo Tanaka
A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution Read More »
Pastoral: To Die in the Country AKA Den-en ni shisu (1974) Shûji Terayama, Kaoru Yachigusa, Keiko Niitaka, Masumi Harukawa
A young boys’ coming of age tale set in a strange Read More »
Bad Boys AKA Furyo shonen (1961) Susumu Hani, Yukio Yamada, Hirokazu Yoshitake, Koichiro Yamazaki
Directed in documentary style about a number of delinquent boys in a reformatory Read More »
The Eagle and the Hawk AKA Washi to taka (1957) Umetsugu Inoue, Yûjirô Ishihara, Rentarô Mikuni, Ruriko Asaoka
In this murder mystery musical, trouble comes in pairs on a cargo ship Read More »
Shinjuku, Messy District: I’ll Be There AKA Shinjuku midaregai: Ikumade matte (1977) Chûsei Sone, Miyako Yamaguchi, Moeko Ezawa, Jun Aki
Chûsei Sone’s self-reflective take on Shinjuku Bohemian life Read More »
The City of Lost Souls AKA Hyôryû-gai (2000) Takashi Miike, Teah, Michelle Reis, Kôji Kikkawa
Japanese-Brazilian Mario and Chinese hairdresser Kei are lovers. Read More »
A Japanese Tragedy AKA Nihon no higeki (1953) Keisuke Kinoshita, Yûko Mochizuki, Yôko Katsuragi, Masami Taura
Alternating in time, between the end of World War II and 1953, Haruko, a widow Read More »
Young Boss Takeshi AKA Waka oyabun (1965) Kazuo Ikehiro, Raizô Ichikawa, Yukiji Asaoka, Shiho Fujimura
This is the story of Takeshi Nanjo, the young boss of Nanjyo family in the meiji-era of Japan. Read More »
Dodes’ka-den AKA Dodesukaden (1970) Akira Kurosawa, Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura
An anthology of overlapping vignettes exploring the lives of a variety of characters who happen to live Read More »
The Falcon Fighters AKA Rikugun hayabusa sentotai (1969) Mitsuo Murayama, Makoto Satô, Shiho Fujimura, Sei Hiraizumi
In the days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Kato Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air Corps Read More »
Grass Labyrinth AKA Kusa-meikyû (1979) Shûji Terayama, Hiroshi Mikami, Takeshi Wakamatsu, Keiko Niitaka
A young man’s determination to recover the lyrics and music to a song he loved Read More »
Alive (2002) Ryûhei Kitamura, Hideo Sakaki, Ryô, Koyuki
Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. Read More »
The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch AKA Hebi musume to hakuhatsuma (1968) Noriaki Yuasa, Yûko Hamada, Sachiko Meguro, Yachie Matsui
Extremely fun Daiei adaptation of two shojo horror manga into a single, crazily FX-laden story about two rival Read More »
The Lady Vampire AKA Onna kyûketsuki (1959) Nobuo Nakagawa, Shigeru Amachi, Takashi Wada, Junko Ikeuchi
A woman who’s been missing for twenty years suddenly turns up alive, and looking not a day older than when she vanished. Read More »