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Tag Archives: Japan
Beautiful Sunday (1998) Tetsuya Nakashima, Momoko Bitô, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ittoku Kishibe
A hit man in black struggles into an apartment complex. It turns out that the apartments are hosts to a cornucopia of characters. Read More »
Red Handkerchief (1964) Toshio Masuda, Yûjirô Ishihara, Ruriko Asaoka, Hideaki Nitani
A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. Read More »
Travelers (2013) Koichi Sakamoto, Nao Nagasawa, Ayumi Kinoshita, Sanae Hitomi
Dimension Police top agent Ai (Nao Nagasawa) travels to a parallel dimension to catch a criminal from a different world. Read More »
Brutal Tales of Chivalry (1965) Kiyoshi Saeki, Ken Takakura, Ryô Ikebe, Yoshiko Mita
After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Read More »
A Tale Of Africa (1980) Susumu Hani, Simon Trevor, Kathy, Philip Sayer, Heekura Simba
An old man (Jimmy Stewart) has settled in Kenya, in a remote cabin, with his adult granddaughter and several of her “animal friends”. Read More »
Asiapol Secret Service (1966) Akinori Matsuo, Hideaki Nitani, Jô Shishido, Ruriko Asaoka
Jimmy Wang Yu stars in his first major modern-day role, in the same year he revolutionized martial arts cinema in One-Armed Swordsman. Read More »
Attack Squadron! (1963) Shûe Matsubayashi, Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Takashi Shimura
Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. Read More »
Firebird: Daybreak Chapter (1978) Kon Ichikawa, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Toshinori Omi, Masao Kusakari
This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made Read More »
Tale of a Scarface (1999) Eiichi Kudô, Kiyoshi Nakajo, Nagare Hagiwara, Ken Kanako
“Gunro no keifu” is known as “Tale of a Scarface.” It follows the life of Kumoro, a yakuza member Read More »
The Incorrigible (1963) Seijun Suzuki, Ken Yamauchi, Masako Izumi, Midori Tashiro
A teenager is dismissed from school for misconduct. Read More »
Touching the Skin of Eeriness (2013) Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Shôta Sometani, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Hôshi Ishida
When a boy loses his father he moves in with his older half-brother. Read More »
Farewell to the Ark (1984) Shûji Terayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Mayumi Ogawa, Yoshio Harada
A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions Read More »
Initiation of the Two-Sword Style (1943) Daisuke Itô, Jun Fujikawa, Sannosuke Fujikawa, Kensaku Hara
From the deepest archives of Japanese film history comes this superbly restored edition of one of the epic adventures Read More »
Oh, Bomb! (1964) Kihachi Okamoto, Yûnosuke Itô, Fubuki Koshiji, Ichirô Nakatani
Filmed as a traditional Japanese play, a yakuza boss is released from prison, but finds his gang usurped by a shady politician. Read More »