After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor. Read More »
Tag Archives: Kin’ya Kitaôji
Yumechiyo’s Diary AKA Yumechiyo nikki (1985) Kirirô Urayama, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Kin’ya Kitaôji, Kirin Kiki
Yumechiyo Nikki is the story of a woman who is suffering from leukemia, the result of exposure to the atomic blast when she was still unborn. Read More »
Men and War III AKA Senso to ningen III: Kanketsuhen (1973) Satsuo Yamamoto, Kin’ya Kitaôji, Junko Natsu, Kei Yamamoto
The third and final part details the family’s trials during the Sino-Japanese War to the Soviet army’s Read More »
Band of Assassins AKA Shinsengumi (1969) Tadashi Sawashima, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Kin’ya Kitaôji
Feudal Japan. Kamo Serizawa and Isami Kondo turn a collection of student fencers into a band of assassins Read More »
Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu (1965) Daisuke Itô, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Kin’ya Kitaôji, Takahiro Tamura, Kei Yamamoto
From one of the most important forces in Japanese filmmaking, Ito Daisuke, comes the biography of the greatest Warlord in Japan’s history. Read More »
Fire Festival (1985) Mitsuo Yanagimachi, Kin’ya Kitaôji, Kiwako Taichi, Norihei Miki, Drama
The villagers in a beautiful remote area of Japan are divided into the woodsmen, who worship the mountain goddess, and the fishermen, who worship the goddess of the sea. Read More »
Winters Flower (1978) Yasuo Furuhata, Ken Takakura, Kimiko Ikegami, Kin’ya Kitaôji, Crime, Drama
A thug is released after fifteen years in prison for the murder of a yakuza gang boss. Read More »
