Yasuo is a gangster just released from jail. Believing his boss double-crossed him Read More »
Tag Archives: Shinji Aoyama
Sad Vacation (2007) Shinji Aoyama, Tadanobu Asano, Kaori Fujimitsu, Eri Ishida
Kenji, abandoned by his mother, scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs including driving Read More »
An Obsession AKA Tsumetai chi (1997) Shinji Aoyama, Ryo Ishibashi, Yôzaburô Itô, Eiko Nagashima
An Obsession is Aoyama’s remake for the 1990s of Akira Kurosawa’s Stray Dog (“Nora inu,” 1949). Read More »
Lakeside Murder Case AKA Reikusaido mâdâ kêsu (2004) Shinji Aoyama, Kôji Yakusho, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Akira Emoto
Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. Read More »
Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name AKA Shiritsu tantei Hama Maiku: Namae no nai mori (2002) Shinji Aoyama, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyôka Suzuki, Nene Ohtsuka
Financially strapped private detective Hama Maike is hired by a businessman Read More »
Two Punks AKA Chinpira (1996) Shinji Aoyama, Takao Ohsawa, Duncan, Reiko Kataoka
Centering on a young drifter almost casually drawn into violence–a crime drama about a boy Read More »
Enbalming AKA Enbamingu (1999) Shinji Aoyama, Kôjirô Hongô, Masatoshi Matsuo, Yutaka Matsushige
Young female embalmer Miyako while performing the embalming process the head of the corpse shes restoring is stolen. Read More »
Eureka (2000) Shinji Aoyama, Kôji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Masaru Miyazaki
The traumatized survivors of a murderous bus hijacking come together Read More »
Barren Illusion (1999) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Shinji Aoyama, Shirô Atami, Shingo Ichizawa, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
The female lead, a postal worker, is shown involved in activities (in two different scenes) which surely would result in her death–jumping off a building and being severely beaten by a gang of thugs. Read More »