Tag Archives: Japan

One murky night, Soetsu, a blind acupuncturist and money lender, calls on Shinzaemon Fukami, a Hatamoto samurai, to collect some money. Read More »

A seasoned prosecutor uncovers the perfect crime committed by a young lawyer. Read More »

Detectives investigate the murder of an old man found in a Tokyo rail yard. Read More »

A Japanese terrorist, Satoshi Kirishima, remained one of Japan’s most wanted fugitives for almost 50 years until revealing his identity as he lay dying. Read More »

Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school. Read More »

When two samurai warriors take on a job to take over the castle fort of an invading clan Read More »

An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo’s red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws. Read More »

A look at the life of renegade yakuza, Rikio Ishikawa, particularly the years from 1946 to 1950 when his violent Read More »

In June of the first year of the Genji era, the Shinsengumi launched a raid on the Ikedaya Inn, where anti-shogunate activists had gathered. Read More »

A structureless succession of bizarre and erotic set-pieces revolving around a series of fantasies in a dentist’s waiting room. Read More »