Toku, a factory worker (Taiji Tonoyama) gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru (Nobuko Otowa), who then follows him home. Read More »
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Home from the Sea AKA Furusato (1972) Yôji Yamada, Hisashi Igawa, Chieko Baishô, Chishû Ryû
On a beautiful island in Seto Inner Sea, Seichi and Minko make their living by transporting rocks to construction sites by boat. Read More »
Love Letter AKA Koibumi (1985) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Mitsuko Baishô, Keiko Takahashi
A spontaneous and youthfully careless painter and teacher Sh?ichi lives an ordinary family life Read More »
Five Men of Edo AKA Oedo go-nin Otoko (1951) Daisuke Itô, Tsumasaburô Bandô, Utaemon Ichikawa, Isuzu Yamada
During the 17th Century bands of hatamoto, samurai vassals of the Tokugawa shogunate Read More »
Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction (1964) Kazuo Ikehiro, Raizô Ichikawa, Michiko Ai, Akira Amemiya
A fugitive christian “saint” (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. Read More »
Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing AKA Nemuri Kyoshiro 3: Engetsugiri (1964) Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Raizô Ichikawa, Kyooko Azuma, Ryônosuke Azuma
A decapitation at the hands of the shogun’s monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action Read More »
Japanese Girls at the Harbor AKA Minato no nihonmusume (1933) Hiroshi Shimizu, Michiko Oikawa, Yukiko Inoue, Ureo Egawa
A bad boy can win their hearts and drive them apart even in the 1930s and even in Japan Read More »
Tora-san’s Forget Me Not AKA Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro wasurenagusa (1973) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Ruriko Asaoka
Tora visits his family after a year. After a misunderstanding he gets upset and leaves to end up in the countryside. Read More »
Versus (2000) Ryûhei Kitamura, Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki, Chieko Misaka
Set in the present where a group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met Read More »
April Story AKA Shigatsu monogatari (1998) Shunji Iwai, Takako Matsu, Seiichi Tanabe, Kaori Fujii
In spring, a girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo. Read More »
The Great Chase AKA Karei-naru tsuiseki (1975) Norifumi Suzuki, Etsuko Shihomi, Hisako Tanaka, Mach Fumiake
A female plays a race car driver lends her services to the Japanese Secret Service. Read More »
Sandakan 8 AKA Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo (1974) Kei Kumai, Komaki Kurihara, Yôko Takahashi, Kinuyo Tanaka
A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution Read More »
Pastoral: To Die in the Country AKA Den-en ni shisu (1974) Shûji Terayama, Kaoru Yachigusa, Keiko Niitaka, Masumi Harukawa
A young boys’ coming of age tale set in a strange Read More »
Bad Boys AKA Furyo shonen (1961) Susumu Hani, Yukio Yamada, Hirokazu Yoshitake, Koichiro Yamazaki
Directed in documentary style about a number of delinquent boys in a reformatory Read More »
The Eagle and the Hawk AKA Washi to taka (1957) Umetsugu Inoue, Yûjirô Ishihara, Rentarô Mikuni, Ruriko Asaoka
In this murder mystery musical, trouble comes in pairs on a cargo ship Read More »