A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
Joshû sasori: Dai-41 zakkyo-bô / Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972) Shun’ya Itô, Meiko Kaji, Fumio Watanabe, Yukie Kagawa
After spending a year in solitary confinement, Matsu escapes from prison with six more convicts Read More »
Blackmail Is My Life (1968) Kinji Fukasaku
Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki (Horoki Matsukata) quickly rises Read More »
Juhyô no yoromeki / Affair in the Snow (1968) Yoshishige Yoshida, Mariko Okada, Isao Kimura, Yukio Ninagawa
In an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself Read More »
Yorokobi mo kanashimi mo ikutoshitsuki / Times of Joy and Sorrow (1957) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideko Takamine, Keiji Sada, Takahiro Tamura
Covering the years from 1932 through 1957, this is the story of the trials and tribulations of lighthouse keeper Keiji Sada and his wife Hideko Takamine. Read More »
The Black Book / Kuroi gashû: Aru sarariman no shôgen (1960) Hiromichi Horikawa, Keiju Kobayashi, Chisako Hara, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Crime, Drama
A forty-year-old office worker, Ishino get good income, nice family and a love affair with girl co-worker. Read More »
The Village (1975) Yôji Yamada, Chieko Baishô, Akira Terao, Atom Shimojô
A quasi-docu-drama pertaining to the monumental process to bring a performance troupe to a small Japanese village to perform for one night. Read More »
Whistling in Kotan (1959) Mikio Naruse, Ken Yamauchi, Yoshiko Kôda, Masayuki Mori
In the outskirts of a city in Hokkaido, an indigenous Ainu family faces discrimination Read More »
Yakuza Graveyard AKA Yakuza no hakaba: Kuchinashi no hana (1976) Kinji Fukasaku, Tetsuya Watari, Meiko Kaji, Tatsuo Umemiya
When a cop is transferred to a new precinct it is obvious that the area’s yakuza mob Read More »
Lord of Steel Heart (1961) Kôkichi Uchide, Utaemon Ichikawa, Shingo Yamashiro, Tomisaburô Wakayama
A Tokugawa Daimyo rebels against an his lord after the battle of Sekigahara. Read More »