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Tag Archives: Japan
Rainbow Man (1949) Kiyohiko Ushihara, Keiju Kobayashi, Teruko Akatsuki, Katsuko Wakasugi
When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder Read More »
The Unspoiled Diamond (1982) Toshiya Fujita, Misako Tanaka, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Mariko Kaga
Story of 20-year-old college student is involved in middle-aged lecturer to Kakemochi the prep of several for liquor and women, eventually greet goodbye. Read More »
A Wicked Woman (1958) Nobuo Nakagawa, Katsuko Wakasugi, Jûzaburô Akechi, Tetsurô Tanba
In 1870’s Tokyo, Den steals to support the daughter of her first marriage and her consumptive second husband. Read More »
Sanchu Uprising: Voices at Dawn (2015) Juichiro Yamasaki, Naohisa Tanaka, Kano Kajiwara, Yoshitomo Fujihisa
1726, Sanchu, Okayama Prefecture: farmers negotiate with the feudal domain in order to seek exemption from rising taxes. Read More »
The Mysterians (1957) Ishirô Honda, Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Momoko Kôchi
Aliens arrive on Earth and ask permission to be given a certain tract of land for their people to live on. Read More »
A Geisha (1953) Kenji Mizoguchi, Michiyo Kogure, Ayako Wakao, Seizaburô Kawazu
In the post-war, the sixteen year-old teenager Eiko seeks out the geisha Miyoharu in the district of Gion Read More »
Cruel Ghost Legend (1968) Kazuo Hase, Masumi Harukawa, Nobuo Kaneko, Saeda Kawaguchi
A Samurai kills a Blind Man who tells him to “Repay his debts.” Read More »
My Soul Is Slashed (1991) Shûsuke Kaneko, Ken Ogata, Hideyo Amamoto, Nina Blake
Ken Ogata, a company man, is killed. Accidentally, he is transfused with the blood of Dracula and returned to life. Read More »
Hospitalité (2010) Kôji Fukada, Kenji Yamauchi, Kiki Sugino, Kanji Furutachi
In suburban Tokyo, the Kobayashis – Mikio, his young second wife Natsuki Read More »
Legacy of the 500,000 (1963) Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tsutomu Yamazaki
During the Second World War, Takeichi Matsuo had participated in hiding a huge cache of gold in the Phillippine mountains. Read More »
Crazed Fruit (1956) Kô Nakahira, Yûjirô Ishihara, Masahiko Tsugawa, Mie Kitahara
Bored rich kids. Natsuhisa, 20, constantly teases his brother Haruji, 16, about girls. Read More »
Unperishable Sword (1960) Yasushi Sasaki, Kôji Tsuruta, Hiroko Sakuramachi, Keiko Fujita
Ruby (1992) John Mackenzie, Danny Aiello, Sherilyn Fenn, Frank Orsatti
An exploration of certain conspiracy theories surrounding the JFK assassination from Jack Ruby’s perspective. Read More »
Chaos (2000) Hideo Nakata, Jun Kunimura, Ken Mitsuishi, Masato Hagiwara
A man gets involved in a kidnapping scheme with the wife of a wealthy businessman. Read More »