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Tag Archives: japanese
Forget Love for Now AKA Koi mo wasurete (1937) Hiroshi Shimizu, Michiko Kuwano, Shûji Sano, Jun Yokoyama
The lives of unhappy children and women, particularly mothers Read More »
Minamata: The Victims and Their World AKA Minamata Kanja-san to sono sekai (1971) Noriaki Tsuchimoto
The film focuses on residents who suffered Minamata disease in the nervous system Read More »
Love Letter AKA Rabu retâ (1981) Yôichi Higashi, Keiko Takahashi, Katsuo Nakamura, Mariko Kaga
Yuko is in love with an old poet who happens to be also a married man. Read More »
No More Easy Life AKA Mo hozue wa tsukanai (1979) Yôichi Higashi, Kaori Momoi, Eiji Okuda, Leo Morimoto
A wistful slice-of-life drama about a college student’s attempts to manage her relations with two men. Read More »
Tora-san 42 AKA Otoko wa tsurai yo: Boku no ojisan (1989) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Fumi Dan
The well-intentioned, kind-hearted, and somewhat awkward but always lovable Read More »
Tora-san 40 AKA Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro sarada kinenbi (1988) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Hiroko Mita
In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor Read More »
Paradise: What Is Being Done AKA Rakuen: Nagasarete (2006) Tôru Kamei, Bengal, Fujiko, Katsuya Kobayashi
Stranded on a seemingly uninhabited island, an anchorwoman campaigning Read More »
Erotic Liaisons AKA Erotikkuna kankei (1992) Kôji Wakamatsu, Ryûdô Uzaki, Joe Yamanaka, Kei Satô
Set in Paris, the plot concerns a low-key private detective agency run by Rie Read More »
An Artist of the Floating World AKA Ukiyo no gakka (2019) Kazuki Watanabe, Natsuko Akiyama, Shunsuke Daitô, Masato Hagiwara
In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was Read More »
Spanking Love (1995) Shoji Tanaka, Renji Ishibashi, Toshio Kakei, Hisami Shiraishi
Ryo Masuda is a S/M film director who asks a woman he meets on the street to star in one of his films. Read More »
Tora-San 41 AKA Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro kokoro no tabiji (1989) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Keiko Takeshita
During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. Read More »
Tora-san 39 AKA Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro monogatari (1987) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Kumiko Akiyoshi
A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother Read More »
Tora-san 38 AKA Otoko wa tsurai yo: Shiretoko bojô (1987) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Keiko Takeshita
Tora-san, the näive and romantic peddler, returns once more to his home in Hokkaido Read More »
The Path of the King AKA Nihon yakuza-den: Sôchiyô e no michi (1971) Masahiro Makino, Ken Takakura, Kôji Tsuruta, Tomisaburô Wakayama
When the aging leader of the yakuza gang Maeda-gumi decides to retire, many of the gang members have no confidence Read More »