20 years ago, an elementary school student falls on an island in the northern tip of Hokkaido. Read More »
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Spanking Love (1995) Shoji Tanaka, Renji Ishibashi, Toshio Kakei, Hisami Shiraishi
Ryo Masuda is a S/M film director who asks a woman he meets on the street to star in one of his films. Read More »
Shimanto River AKA Shimanto-gawa (1991) Hideo Onchi, Kanako Higuchi, Renji Ishibashi, Kaoru Kobayashi
A young boy, Atsu, grows up along the banks of the Shimanto River in rural southern Shikoku. Read More »
Tales of the Unusual AKA Yonimo kimyô na monogatari – Eiga no tokubetsu hen (2000) Mamoru Hoshi, Masayuki Ochiai, Hisao Ogura, Kazuyuki Aijima, Izumi Inamori, Renji Ishibashi
A four-part anthology in the spirit of The Twilight Zone, this film starts Read More »
The Woman with Red Hair AKA Akai kami no onna (1979) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Junko Miyashita, Renji Ishibashi, Ako
At his working place, Kozo and his colleague gangrape the boss’ teenage daughter. Read More »
The Assassination of Ryoma AKA Ryoma ansatsu (1974) Kazuo Kuroki, Yoshio Harada, Renji Ishibashi, Rie Nakagawa
Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), imperial loyalist Read More »
Marquis de Sades Prosperities of Vice (1988) Akio Jissôji, Yasumi Hara, Renji Ishibashi, Seiran Li
An obsession with the life and works of the Marquis de Sade leads a depraved, 1920s-era Japanese count down the path of tragedy and self-destruction in this erotic drama. Read More »
Kitamura Toukoku: Waga fuyu no uta / Tokoku Kitamura. My Winter Song (1977) Seiichiro Yamaguchi, Ranbô Minami, Mari Tanaka, Renji Ishibashi, Mariko Fuji, Drama, Romance
Tokoku Kitamura (1868-1894) is a Romantic poet and an advocate of liberalism in the Meiji era. Read More »
Watcher in the Attic / Edogawa Ranpo ryoki-kan Yaneura no sanposha (1976) Noboru Tanaka, Junko Miyashita, Renji Ishibashi, Hiroshi Chô, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Erotic
Based on a story by well-praised Japanese writer Edogawa Rampo. In Tokyo, 1923, Saburo Gouda is exploring secrets of his fellow-occupants of an apartment building. Read More »
Abe ichizoku / The Abe Clan (1995) Kinji Fukasaku, Yumi Asô, Mariko Fuji, Renji Ishibashi, Drama, Action
A Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the honor of an individual? In the spring of the 18th year of Kanei (Feb/30/1624 – Dec/16/1644), Hosokawa Tadatoshi, feudal lord of the Higo area, died. Although Tadatoshi forbade his vassals to follow him in death before he died, they still committed seppuku one after the other. The new feudal lord, Mitsunao, Tadatoshi’s son, also gave the order forbidding seppuku. Abe Yaichiemon obeyed his former lord’s last wish but is now being called a coward by his comrades and finally decided to follow Tadatoshi in death in order to save his family’s honor. Mitsunao, upset by Yaichiemon actions, punished the Abe family unfairly. Objected to this, the Abe family shut themselves up in their manor as the lords troops moved in… This is the true story of what happened within the Hosokawa clan in early Edo era. A masterpiece by director Kinji Fukasaku that boldly depicts the struggle between humanity and the code of the Samurai.
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