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Ninjitsu, Part II AKA Yagyû bugeichô: Sôryû hiken (1958) Hiroshi Inagaki, Kôji Tsuruta, Toshirô Mifune, Nobuko Otowa
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing Read More »
Ninjitsu AKA Yagyû bugeichô (1957) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshiko Kuga, Kyôko Kagawa
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which Read More »
Battlefield Baseball AKA Jigoku Kôshien (2003) Yudai Yamaguchi, Tak Sakaguchi, Atsushi Itô, Hideo Sakaki
Battlefield Baseball is a tough game–it doesn’t end until all the members on the opposing team are dead. Read More »
The Assassination of Ryoma AKA Ryoma ansatsu (1974) Kazuo Kuroki, Yoshio Harada, Renji Ishibashi, Rie Nakagawa
Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), imperial loyalist Read More »
Hitokiri (1969) Hideo Gosha, Shintarô Katsu, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yukio Mishima
Izo Okada, a ronin (masterless samurai), desperately seeks a way out of his financial straits. Read More »
Appassionata AKA Jo no mai (1984) Sadao Nakajima, Mariko Okada, Yûko Natori, Morio Kazama, Kei Satô
Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Read More »
Yellow Line AKA Ôsen chitai (1960) Teruo Ishii, Teruo Yoshida, Yôko Mihara, Shigeru Amachi
A criminal drama told in a semi-documentary fashion. The murder of the chief official of Kobe city’s Customs triggers Read More »
The Ballad of Narayama AKA Narayama bushikô (1983) Shôhei Imamura, Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari
In a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. Read More »
Sure Death! Brown, You Bounder! AKA Hissatsu! Buraun-kan no kaibutsutachi (1985) Joe Hirose, Makoto Fujita, Izumi Ayukawa, Masaki Kyômoto
Each member of a band of assassins has a cover. The leader, Mondo Nakamura, is an officer of the law who bumbles through his assignments. Read More »
Sex and Fury AKA Furyô anego den: Inoshika Ochô (1973) Norifumi Suzuki, Reiko Ike, Akemi Negishi, Ryôko Ema
Reiko Ike stars as Ocho, a gambler and pickpocket in Meiji Era Tokyo. Read More »
Four Sisters AKA Shimaizaka (1985) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Misako Konno, Atsuko Asano, Yasuko Sawaguchi
Four half-sisters share an unusually close bond during tumultuous times of post-war Japan. Read More »
Kekkô Kamen: Surprise (2004) Takafumi Nagamine, Shôichirô Akaboshi, Jiro Dan, Noriko Higashide
A special agent is sent to a music school. There she discovers that the faculty is torturing the students Read More »
Kekko Kamen Returns AKA Kekkô Kamen: ritânzu (2004) Takafumi Nagamine, Aki Hoshino, Kenjirô Ishimaru, Ryûji Komiya
The evil is back and this terrorizing the swim team at an all girl school. Read More »
Kekko Kamen: The MGF Strikes Back AKA Kekkô Kamen: Mangurifon no gyakushû (2004) Takafumi Nagamine, Shino Saitô, Juri Inahara, Hiromitsu Suzuki
When good-natured Mayumi finds herself at the mercy of her sadistic, panty-crazed teachers Read More »