Downed American fliers in WWII are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in cruel medical experiments. Read More »
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Bonds AKA Kizuna (1998) Kichitarô Negishi, Kôji Yakusho, Ken Watanabe, Yumi Asô
Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years Read More »
Rage AKA Ikari (2016) Sang-il Lee, Ken Watanabe, Mirai Moriyama, Aoi Miyazaki
A grisly unsolved murder links three seemingly unrelated stories in three different Japanese cities. Read More »
Tampopo (1985) Jûzô Itami, Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Comedy
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, the main story is about trucker Goro, who rides into town like a modern Shane to help Tampopo set up the perfect noodle soup restaurant. Woven into this main story are a number of smaller stories about the importance of food, ranging from a gangster who mixes hot sex with food, to an old woman who terrorizes a shopkeeper by compulsively squeezing his wares.
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