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Tag Archives: Akira Emoto
They Say Nothing Stays the Same AKA Aru sendo no hanashi (2019) Joe Odagiri, Akira Emoto, Ririka Kawashima, Nijirô Murakami
Why does one need a ferryman? One needs a ferryman where there is a body Read More »
KT (2002) Junji Sakamoto, Il-hwa Choi, Akira Emoto, Kyôko Enami
In 1973, while exiled in Japan, South Korea’s Kim Dae-Jung is kidnapped. Read More »
Teacher and Three Children AKA Ishiuchi jinjô kôtô shôgakkô: Hana wa chiredomo (2008) Kaneto Shindô, Akira Emoto, Etsushi Toyokawa, Naomasa Musaka
The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. Read More »
Turn AKA Taan (2001) Hideyuki Hirayama, Riho Makise, Kankurô Nakamura, Akira Emoto
Maki is a talented copper plate artist, however, just before her first gallery show, she gets struck by a truck. Read More »
Kaizokuban Bootleg Film (1999) Masahiro Kobayashi, Akira Emoto, Kippei Shîna, Maika
A retiring Yakuza gang member and a cop go on a road trip to attend the funeral of a mutual female friend. Read More »
Battle Heater AKA Batoru hîtâ (1989) Jôji Iida, Akira Emoto, Hisako Hara, Masao Imafuku
Hama, along with his assistant Furuchi, spends his time collecting electronic junk from other people’s garbage and junk yards. 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 »
Yawarakai seikatsu AKA It’s Only Talk (2005) Ryuichi Hiroki, Shinobu Terajima, Etsushi Toyokawa, Akira Emoto
Yuko is 35 years old, single, out of work, and on medication from her psychiatrist to combat her manic depression. Read More »
Owl (2003) Kaneto Shindô, Akira Emoto, Daijirô Harada, Mansaku Ikeuchi
Taking up the argument of ‘Onibaba’ (1964), the nonagenarian Director Kaneto Shindo places the action in the eighties Read More »
The Second Is a Christian (1985) Kazuyuki Izutsu, Etsuko Shiomi, Kôichi Iwaki, Akira Emoto
The story of beautiful Christian Nun, Kyoko (Shihomi) who is the object of affection for two very different men Read More »
Suspicion (1982) Yoshitarô Nomura, Kaori Momoi, Shima Iwashita, Akira Emoto, Drama, Crime, Mystery
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Read More »
Dr. Akagi / Kanzô sensei (1998) Shôhei Imamura, Akira Emoto, Kumiko Asô, Jacques Gamblin, Comedy, Drama, History
Dr. Akagi, a rural physician in Japan during WWII, wages a one-man crusade against hepetitis, earning him a reputation as “Dr. Liver.” But his fanatic campaign brings him into disfavor with the Japanese army, and as the war seems more and more hopeless for the Japanese, Dr. Akagi finds himself increasingly a scapegoat.
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