Tag Archives: Japan
Crossroads AKA Jûjiro (1928) Teinosuke Kinugasa, Akiko Chihaya, Junosuke Bandô, Yukiko Ogawa
After falling in love with a courtesan, Rikiya is blinded by ash during a fight in a brothel. Read More »
Jam Films (2002) Daizaburo Hanada, Jôji Iida, Shunji Iwai, Morio Agata, Natsuko Akiyama, Samuel Pop Aning
“The Messenger” is a mysterious woman who appears to a mobster hiding underground Read More »
Lear on the Shore AKA Umibe no Ria (2017) Masahiro Kobayashi, Hiroshi Abe, Mieko Harada, Kaoru Kobayashi
Chokichi Kuwahata was once a leading actor, but he is ravaged by dementia and old age now. Read More »
New Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701 AKA Shin joshû Sasori: 701-gô (1976) Yutaka Kohira, Yumi Takigawa, Yûsuke Natsu, Yoko Konno
Nami Matsushima’s sister goes missing and after getting too caught up in doing something about it Read More »
A Chorus of Angels AKA Kita no kanaria-tachi (2012) Junji Sakamoto, Ayako Fujitani, Renji Ishibashi, Yôzaburô Itô
20 years ago, an elementary school student falls on an island in the northern tip of Hokkaido. Read More »
Jean’s Blues: No Future AKA Jînzu burûsu: Asu naki buraiha (1974) Sadao Nakajima, Tsunehiko Watase, Meiko Kaji, Ryôhei Uchida
Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn’t hers. Read More »
Outrage Coda (2017) Takeshi Kitano, Toshiyuki Nishida, Tatsuo Nadaka
Five years after surviving the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families Read More »
The Naked Woman and the Gun AKA Rajo to kenjû (1957) Seijun Suzuki, Michitarô Mizushima, Mari Shiraki, Ichirô Sugai
A Tokyo newspaper reporter goes after the Japanese king of cocaine trafficking Read More »
Satan’s Town AKA Akuma no machi (1956) Seijun Suzuki, Seizaburô Kawazu, Ichirô Sugai, Azusa Yumi
A notorious murderer Oba escapes from jail. Hayasaki, the Oba’s right hand Read More »
Will to Live AKA Ikitai (1999) Kaneto Shindô, Rentarô Mikuni, Shinobu Ohtake, Akira Emoto
It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day Read More »
Bullet Train AKA Shinkansen daibakuha (1975) Jun’ya Satô, Ken Takakura, Shin’ichi Chiba, Kei Yamamoto
One of the Japanese Shinkansen “Bullet Trains” is threatened with a bomb Read More »
Shogun (1980) Jerry London, Richard Chamberlain, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Shimada
Pilot-Major John Blackthorne (Richard Chamberlain), an English ship pilot, whose vessel wrecked Read More »
Wandering Ginza Butterfly AKA Ginchô wataridori (1972) Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, Meiko Kaji, Tatsuo Umemiya, Tsunehiko Watase
Nami, a young woman, is released from the prison after serving 3 years for killing a man. Read More »
Head of the Boss AKA Shin jingi naki tatakai: Kumicho no kubi (1975) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Tsunehiko Watase, Yuriko Hishimi
Sugawara is Kuroda, an itinerant gambler who steps in when a hit by drug-addicted assassin Kusunoki goes wrong Read More »