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The Devil’s Ballad AKA Akuma no temari-uta (1977) Kon Ichikawa, Kôji Ishizaka, Keiko Kishi, Akiko Nishina
Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. Read More »
Typhoon Over Nagasaki AKA Typhon sur Nagasaki (1957) Yves Ciampi, Danielle Darrieux, Jean Marais, Keiko Kishi
Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards Read More »
Tora-san Loves an Artist AKA Otoko wa tsurai yo: Watashi no tora-san (1973) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Keiko Kishi
Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Read More »
I Will Buy You AKA Anata kaimasu (1956) Masaki Kobayashi, Keiji Sada, Keiko Kishi, Minoru Ôki
Kobayashi’s pitiless take on Japan’s professional baseball industry is unlike any other sports film ever made. Read More »
Snow Flurry AKA Kazabana (1959) Keisuke Kinoshita, Keiko Kishi, Ineko Arima, Yoshiko Kuga
Set in a rural village in the Shinshu region, this melodrama about lovers of different social classes spans two generations: that of a mother, and her son. Read More »
Snow Country AKA Yukiguni (1957) Shirô Toyoda, Ryô Ikebe, Keiko Kishi, Kaoru Yachigusa
It’s a man’s world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. Read More »
Queen Bee AKA Joôbachi (1978) Kon Ichikawa, Koji Ishizaka, Mieko Takamine, Keiko Kishi
Private detective Kindaichi investigates a series of murders in scenic rural Japan. Read More »
Onna no sono / The Garden of Women (1954) Keisuke Kinoshita, Mieko Takamine, Hideko Takamine, Keiko Kishi, Drama
A student at a woman’s university takes a controversial action against the school’s old-fashioned doctrines. Read More »
Koto / Ancient City (1980) Kon Ichikawa, Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Keiko Kishi, Drama
Koto is a 1980 film directed by Kon Ichikawa starring Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura in an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata’s story The Old Capital. Read More »
Otôto / Her Brother (1960) Kon Ichikawa, Keiko Kishi, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Drama
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this standard drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.
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Yakusoku / The Rendezvous (1972) Kôichi Saitô, Keiko Kishi, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Yoshie Minami, Drama
During a long train ride heading north of Japan, a young man addresses an older woman in front of him. At first she doesn’t respond, but he finally gets her into a conversation when he offers her lunch. Thus begins Saito Koichi’s famous romantic thriller, Le Rendezvous. The woman turns out to be a murderer on parole, whist the man a runaway accused of assault and robbery. As it happens, the two soon fall in love. The woman asks the man to wait two years until she is released from jail. And he agress.
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The Fossil AKA Kaseki (1975) Masaki Kobayashi, Shin Saburi, Mayumi Ogawa, Keiko Kishi, Drama
In the story, an industrialist learns of a medical condition which will greatly shorten his life. Read More »
Kuroi jûnin no onna / Ten Women in Black (1961) Kon Ichikawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Keiko Kishi, Tamao Nakamura, Drama
Weary of their lot, ten women – all mistresses of the same philandering businessman – join forces to wreak revenge upon him. A comedy of reversed expectations, gleefully upending traditional onscreen representations of gender (the women here act and talk like men, while the men are weak, confused or ineffectual), it’s shot in an exaggerated noir-ish manner – complete with multiple flashbacks and highly stylised visuals – that serves highlight the artificiality of its conceit.
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