A demonic reincarnation of a Japanese general from the 10th century appears in the early 20th century Tokyo with a mission to destroy the blooming city. Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
Uta / Poem (1972) Akio Jissôji, Shin Kishida, Hiroko Sakurai, Saburô Shinoda, Drama
The young houseboy in Uta wakes up every night to patrol the house of a teacher with a flashlight. Read More »
Dopperugengâ / Doppelganger (2003) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kôji Yakusho, Hiromi Nagasaku, Yûsuke Santamaria, Comedy, Fantasy, Thriller
Hayasaki is an inventor working on an Artificial Body. It is not going well and he is stressed out and on the verge of being fired from the research division of his company. Read More »
Chijin no ai / Love for an Idiot (1967) Yasuzô Masumura, Michiyo Ohkusu, Shôichi Ozawa, Masakazu Tamura, Drama, Erotic
A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she enslaves him to her whims.
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The Lower Depths (1957) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa, Drama
In medieval Japan, aging Rokubei, his younger wife of four years Osugi and her uncle run a tenement complex at the bottom of a cliff Read More »
Rhapsody in August (1991) Akira Kurosawa, Sachiko Murase, Richard Gere, Hisashi Igawa, Drama
An elderly woman living in Nagasaki Japan takes care of her four grandchildren for their summer vacation. Read More »
Phantom of the Toilet (1995) Joji Matsuoka, Takayuki Inoue, Ai Maeda, Yuka Kono, Horror
After school children start to go missing and turn up dead, the students of the local elementary school come up with their own explanation. Read More »
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (1976) Mitsuo Yanagimachi, Documentary
The 1970s in Japan saw the rise of motorcycle gangs, which drew the interest of the media. Read More »
Ogin sama / Love Under the Crucifix (1962) Kinuyo Tanaka, Ineko Arima, Tatsuya Nakadai, Ganjirô Nakamura, Drama
The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Read More »
Tsuki wa noborinu / The Moon Has Risen (1955) Kinuyo Tanaka, Chishû Ryû, Hisako Yamane, Yôko Sugi, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. Read More »
Seisakus Wife (1965) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Takahiro Tamura, Nobuo Chiba, Drama, Romance, War
Japan at the beginning of the 20th century. Okane, a beautiful girl from a poor family, must serve as a mistress to a much older rich man. Read More »
Manji / Swastika (1964) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Kyôko Kishida, Eiji Funakoshi, Drama, Romance
Sonoko, a bored housewife entering middle age, met a young girl, Mitsuko, at a private school of art. Read More »
Opium War (2008) Siddiq Barmak, Peter Bussian, Joe Suba, Fawad Samani, Comedy, Drama, War
Opium War is a 2008 Afghan black comedy film directed by Golden Globe winner, Siddiq Barmak. Read More »
Kitamura Toukoku: Waga fuyu no uta / Tokoku Kitamura. My Winter Song (1977) Seiichiro Yamaguchi, Ranbô Minami, Mari Tanaka, Renji Ishibashi, Mariko Fuji, Drama, Romance
Tokoku Kitamura (1868-1894) is a Romantic poet and an advocate of liberalism in the Meiji era. Read More »
Down the Drain (1993) Shinobu Yaguchi, Noboru Iguchi, Shigeru Izumiya, Kotaro, Comedy
The protagonist, Junko, endures a long series of remarkable misfortunes that leave her at loose ends, steering the films toward the topic of modern experiences of displacement and spiritual homelessness. Read More »