Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army Read More »
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) Masaki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima
In the World War II, the pacifist and humanist Japanese Kaji accepts to travel with his wife Michiko to the tiny Manchurian village Loh Hu Liong Read More »
A Man Vanishes (1967) Shôhei Imamura, Yoshie Hayakawa, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Plastics salesman Oshima disappeared without a word to anyone, and has been missing for two years. Read More »
Intentions of Murder (1964) Shôhei Imamura, Masumi Harukawa, Kô Nishimura, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
A housewife living under her tyrannical husband has her life stressfully turned upside down after getting raped by a burglar. Read More »
Moving (1993) Shinji Sômai, Kiichi Nakai, Junko Sakurada, Tomoko Tabata
Renko, a girl in the sixth grade, is at first unperturbed by her parents’ decision to separate. Read More »
Owls Castle (1999) Masahiro Shinoda, Kiichi Nakai, Mayu Tsuruta, Riona Hazuki
As the great military commander Nobunaga Oda was consolidating his power across Japan, one of his actions was to wipe out a clan of assassins Read More »
Triple Cross (1992) Kinji Fukasaku, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Kazuya Kimura, Keiko Oginome
Three old gangsters pull off one last heist to raise much-needed cash for their various debts. Read More »
East Meets West (1995) Kihachi Okamoto, Christopher Mayer, Hiroyuki Sanada, Scott Bachicha
A disgraced warrior planning the murder of a Japanese diplomat, and a ninja in the employ of a navy official are about to land in San Francisco Read More »
The Scarlet Camellia (1964) Yoshitarô Nomura, Shima Iwashita, Yoshi Katô, Sachiko Hidari
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father’s condition. Read More »
Black Rose Ascension (1975) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Shin Kishida, Naomi Tani, Meika Seri
Shin Kishida stars as Juzo, a self-important pinku eiga director plainly modeled on Nagisa Oshima. Read More »
R100 (2013) Hitoshi Matsumoto, Nao Ohmori, Mao Daichi, Shinobu Terajima
An ordinary man with an ordinary life joins a mysterious club. The membership lasts for one year only and there is one rule: no cancellation under any circumstance. Read More »
Suzaki Paradise Red Light (1956) Yûzô Kawashima, Michiyo Aratama, Yukiko Todoroki, Seizaburô Kawazu
A couple stand indecisively on a bridge in Asakusa. Tsutae and Yoshiji have lost confidence and passion for their future as they get on the bus for Tsukishima and get off at Suzaki. Read More »
The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001) Takashi Miike, Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinji Takeda
A pioneer of a man convinces his family to take advantage of news of a road soon to be built through an area of the country that can be had for next to nothing. Read More »
Negotiator (2003) Takashi Miike, Hiroshi Mikami, Mayu Tsuruta, Shirô Sano
After a convenience store robbery, three unidentified men hold a group of people hostage in a hospital. Read More »
Rise and Fall of Yakuza (1970) Yasuo Furuhata, Kôji Tsuruta, Kyôsuke Machida, Makoto Satô
A reformed gangster helps a former yakuza member. Read More »