An undercover Japanese cop meant to operate within a gang, which deals in drugs is killed, by a sniper. Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs AKA Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki (1960) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masayuki Mori
This is the story of Mama, a.k.a. Keiko, a middle-aged bar hostess who must choose to either get married or buy a bar of her own. Read More »
The Way to Fight AKA Kenka no hanamichi: Oosaka saikyô densetsu (1996) Takashi Miike, Takeshi Caesar, Ryoko Imamura, Kazuki Kitamura
Kazuyoshi Tamai, a High School student in Osaka is a street fighter who can do serious damage. Read More »
Rubber’s Lover (1996) Shozin Fukui
Scientists use a brain-altering drug to conduct experiments, after one such project goes astray Read More »
When They Cry AKA Higurashi no naku koro ni (2008) Ataru Oikawa, Gôki Maeda, Airi Matsuyama, Rin Asuka
Early summer, Keiichi had just moved to a remote mountain village. Read More »
The First Gas Human AKA Gasu ningen dai 1 gô (1960) Ishirô Honda, Tatsuya Mihashi, Kaoru Yachigusa, Yoshio Tsuchiya
A librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into ‘The Human Vapour’. 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 »
Evil Dead Trap 3: Broken Love Killer AKA Chigireta ai no satsujin (1993) Toshiharu Ikeda, Shirô Sano, Megumi Yokoyama, Kimiko Yo
A policewoman is investigating the apparent suicide of a college coed. Read More »
The Pledge AKA Bakuchi-uchi Gaiden (1972) Kôsaku Yamashita, Gorô Ibuki, Nobuo Kaneko, Takuzô Kawatani
When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke’s successor, the conflict between the Kitakyushu and Wakamatsu begins. Read More »
The Yakuza (1974) Sydney Pollack, Robert Mitchum
Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George’s kidnapped daughter Read More »