Young mailman finds out he has no time left due to a terminal disease. Read More »
Tag Archives: Mieko Harada
Lear on the Shore AKA Umibe no Ria (2017) Masahiro Kobayashi, Hiroshi Abe, Mieko Harada, Kaoru Kobayashi
Chokichi Kuwahata was once a leading actor, but he is ravaged by dementia and old age now. Read More »
The Inferno AKA Jigoku (1979) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Mieko Harada, Kyôko Kishida, Ryûzô Hayashi
Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper Read More »
Village of Dreams AKA Eno nakano bokuno mura (1996) Yôichi Higashi, Mieko Harada, Keigo Matsuyama, Shogo Matsuyama
Tells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Read More »
Modori River AKA Modori-gawa (1983) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Mariko Fuji, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Mieko Harada
Gakuyo is a poet of tanka (Japanese verses comprising 31 syllables) and spends his days in the company of prostitutes. Read More »
First Love AKA Hatsukoi (2000) Tetsuo Shinohara, Rena Tanaka, Mieko Harada, Mitsuru Hirata
Satoka Aida, a 17-year high school student, comes to know that her mother’s hospitalization Read More »
A Duel Tale AKA Hatashiai (2015) Shigemichi Sugita, Mieko Harada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Nanami Sakuraba
An elderly samurai who spent his life as a heya-zumi (essentially a freeloader off his family) Read More »
The Youth Killer (1976) Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Yutaka Mizutani, Mieko Harada, Etsuko Ichihara
Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love Read More »
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (1988) Akio Jissôji, Shintarô Katsu, Kyûsaku Shimada, Mieko Harada, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A demonic reincarnation of a Japanese general from the 10th century appears in the early 20th century Tokyo with a mission to destroy the blooming city. Read More »
Misuta, Misesu, Misu Ronri / Mister, Misses, Miss Lonel (1980) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Mieko Harada, Ryûdô Uzaki, Rentarô Mikuni, Drama
Two men and a woman plan to steal 1.5 Billion yen. Read More »
Daichi no komoriuta / Lullaby of the Earth (1976) Yasuzô Masumura, Mieko Harada, Natsuko Kahara, Meiko Kaji, Drama
The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world, when her grandmother dies. Notwithstanding her healthy distrust of all strangers, which her upbringing instilled in her, it is not long before a cunning racketeer finds her weak point, that temptation which she cannot resist, that weakness, different as it may be, that each of us has, and brings her into his power.
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