A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
The Three Treasures (1959) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Akihiko Hirata
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor Keikoh’s son Ouso expects to succeed his father Read More »
Exchange Students (1982) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Satomi Kobayashi, Toshinori Omi, Makoto Satô
9th-graders Kazuo (boy) and Kazumi (girl) take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Read More »
Let’s Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii (1964) Ryuichi Takamori, Kazuo Funaki, Taeko Hamada, Chiyoko Honma
A young man longs to travel to Hawaii, the birthplace of his deceased father Read More »
The Chef of South Polar (2009) Shûichi Okita, Masato Sakai, Kengo Kôra, Kosuke Toyohara
Nishimura has a passion for cooking, but never would he have imagined the task before him now Read More »
The Best of Times (2001) Tso-chi Chang, Wing Fan, Meng-Chieh Kao, Wan-mei Yu
Although their characters and temperaments couldn’t be less alike, 19-year olds Wei and Jie are best friends. Read More »
Tokyo Marigold (2001) Jun Ichikawa, Rena Tanaka, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Yôichirô Saitô
Based on a novel by Hayashi Mariko, Tokyo Marigold is the story of a modern relationship in modern Tokyo under modern circumstances. Read More »
Girls’ Junior High School: Dangerous Games (1970) Mio Ezaki, Junko Natsu, Jirô Okazaki, Chieko Matsubara
A girl enters a new school and finds that her classmates are hanging out with local yakuza and try to frame a teacher for rape. Read More »
Attack of the Mushroom People (1963) Ishirô Honda, Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno, Hiroshi Koizumi
A group of pleasure-seeking young people are stranded on a mysterious island when their boat crashes. Read More »
Turtle Vision (1991) Hisayasu Satô, Rei Takagi, Naomi Sugishita, Miki Fukada
The story about a deranged woman who gouges out the eyes of the strangers she has sex with. Read More »
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 2 (1966) Kiyoshi Saeki, Ken Takakura, Ryô Ikebe, Yoshiko Mita
A yakuza have to to kill a guy out of obligation. When he gets out of prison he visit his victims grave Read More »
Antena (2004) Kazuyoshi Kumakiri, Megumi Asaoka, Makiko Emoto, Koji Enokido
Yuichiro (Ryo Kase) is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. Read More »
Scarecrow (2001) Norio Tsuruta, Maho Nonami, Ko Shibasaki, Grace Yip
The search for her vanished brother Tsuyoshi leads Kaoru to the lonesome village Kozukata in the Japanese back-land. Read More »
Time (2006) Ki-duk Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Ji-Yeon Park, Jun-yeong Jang
Seh-hee and Ji-woo have dated for two years; jealousy consumes her. Read More »
Tomie: Re-birth (2001) Takashi Shimizu, Miki Sakai, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Kumiko Endô
An art student disappears after murdering his model. Read More »