Four half-sisters share an unusually close bond during tumultuous times of post-war Japan. Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
Kekkô Kamen: Surprise (2004) Takafumi Nagamine, Shôichirô Akaboshi, Jiro Dan, Noriko Higashide
A special agent is sent to a music school. There she discovers that the faculty is torturing the students Read More »
Kekko Kamen Returns AKA Kekkô Kamen: ritânzu (2004) Takafumi Nagamine, Aki Hoshino, Kenjirô Ishimaru, Ryûji Komiya
The evil is back and this terrorizing the swim team at an all girl school. Read More »
Tokyo Trial AKA Tôkyô saiban (1983) Masaki Kobayashi, Kei Satô
”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 »
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 »