”THE TOKYO TRIAL” is a 4 1/2-hour account of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East that is visually satisfying but historically empty. Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
Kekko Kamen: The MGF Strikes Back AKA Kekkô Kamen: Mangurifon no gyakushû (2004) Takafumi Nagamine, Shino Saitô, Juri Inahara, Hiromitsu Suzuki
When good-natured Mayumi finds herself at the mercy of her sadistic, panty-crazed teachers Read More »
Kekko Kamen New AKA Kekkô Kamen (2004) Takafumi Nagamine, Nao Eguchi, Kie Ikuta, Juri Inahara
A school that teaches young boys and girls how to become famous anchorpeople in the media. Read More »
Bu su (1987) Jun Ichikawa, Yasuko Tomita, Michiyo Yasuda, Kazue Itô
Suzume moved in Tokyo where she will live in aunt’s house, basically a geisha house. Read More »
Play it, Boogie-Woogie AKA Slow na boogie ni shitekure (1981) Toshiya Fujita, Atsuko Asano, Masato Furuoya, Tsutomu Yamazaki
A young cat burglar begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and her on-again-off-again bonehead biker boyfriend. Read More »
Okuni to Gohei (1952) Mikio Naruse, Michiyo Kogure, Tomoemon Otani, Sô Yamamura
Kogure is the widow of an assassinated samurai and Otani was that man’s pupil. Read More »
The Living Koheiji (1982) Kaiidan: Ikiteiru Koheiji
The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro. Read More »
The Man Who Stole the Sun AKA Taiyô wo nusunda otoko (1979) Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Bunta Sugawara, Kenji Sawada, Kimiko Ikegami
A misfit high-school science teacher decides to build his own atomic bomb. Read More »
Before We Vanish AKA Sanpo suru shinryakusha (2017) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Masami Nagasawa, Ryûhei Matsuda, Hiroki Hasegawa
As vanguards of an invasion of the planet three aliens take possession of host bodies and assume human form. Read More »
The Road AKA Jol (2001) Darezhan Omirbayev, Jamshed Usmonov, Saule Toktybayeva, Alnur Turgambayeva
A filmmaker, Kobessov, awakens from an anxiety nightmare: during the preview of his newest film Read More »