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The Lady in a Black Dress AKA Kuroi doresu no onna (1987) Yôichi Sai, Tomoyo Harada, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Hideo Murota
A woman arrives as an acquaintance of a sister in law for a day under the bar master Tamura who had guided Yakuza’s escaping. Read More »
Black River AKA Kuroi kawa (1957) Masaki Kobayashi, Fumio Watanabe, Tatsuya Nakadai, Ineko Arima
Perhaps Kobayashi’s most sordid film, Black River is an exposé of the rampant corruption on Read More »
Women of the Night AKA Yoru no onnatachi (1948) Kenji Mizoguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Sanae Takasugi, Tomie Tsunoda
Fusako Owada, a young woman in postwar Japan, is the mistress of a notorious drug dealer. Read More »
Eagle of the Pacific AKA Taiheiyô no washi (1953) Ishirô Honda, Denjirô Ôkôchi, Hiroshi Nihon’yanagi, Masao Shimizu
Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician Read More »
Turn AKA Taan (2001) Hideyuki Hirayama, Riho Makise, Kankurô Nakamura, Akira Emoto
Maki is a talented copper plate artist, however, just before her first gallery show, she gets struck by a truck. Read More »
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf AKA Yomigaeru kinrô (1979) Tôru Murakawa, Yûsaku Matsuda, Jun Fubuki, Kei Satô
Yusaka Matsuda stars as a seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salary man who leads a double life Read More »
Village of Doom AKA Ushimitsu no mura (1983) Noboru Tanaka, Masato Furuoya, Misako Tanaka, Kumiko Ohba
An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis Read More »
Disciples of Hippocrates AKA Hipokuratesu-tachi (1980) Kazuki Ohmori, Masato Furuoya, Ran Itô, Masahiro Mitsuta
A medical student wonders if he’s really cut out to be a doctor. Read More »
A Tender Place AKA Yawaraka na hou (2001) Shunichi Nagasaki, Yûki Amami, Shunsuke Matsuoka, Tomokazu Miura
The story of a person who is looking for her own daughter. Read More »
Temptation of the Mask AKA Kamen no yûwaku (1987) Hisayasu Satô, Kazuhiro Sano, Kiyoshi Usuda, Naomi Hagio
Sano plays an adopted orphan who is in love with his stepmother and repeatedly raped by his new father. Read More »
Love Hotel AKA Rabu hoteru (1985) Shinji Sômai, Noriko Hayami, Minori Terada, Kiriko Shimizu
Muraki is in debt after a business failure. When he is unable to pay his debtors Read More »
Stranger (1991) Shunichi Nagasaki, Yûko Natori, Kentarô Shimizu, Takashi Naitô
After serving time for a case of bank fraud, Kiriko now lives a lone quiet life working as a taxi driver on night shifts. Read More »
The Human Bullet AKA Nikudan (1968) Kihachi Okamoto, Minori Terada, Naoko Ôtani, Yûnosuke Itô
During World War II, a Japanese soldier finds himself assigned to a kamikaze mission against a U.S. battleship. Read More »
Crazy Love AKA Kureiji Rabu (1968) Michio Okabe, Mami Aoyama, Gulliver, Mitsutaka Ishii
Shot in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo in 1968 when the underground renaissance Read More »