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Tag Archives: Japan
Tomie: Replay (2000) Tomijiro Mitsuishi, Sayaka Yamaguchi, Yôsuke Kubozuka, Ken’ichi Endô

A young girl looking through her father’s notes finds something written about the last experiment he worked on before he went insane. Read More »
The Boss’s Son at College AKA Daigaku no wakadanna (1933) Hiroshi Shimizu, Mitsugu Fujii, Harurô Takeda, Yoshiko Tsubouchi

The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university’s rugby team. Read More »
Untama giru (1989) Go Takamine, Chikako Aoyama, Kaoru Kobayashi, John Sayles

Magical realist film about Okinawa. It’s about the occupation of Okinawa – both by the United States Read More »
Noble Lady Bound Vase AKA Kifujin shibari tsubo (1977) Masaru Konuma, Naomi Tani, Hitoshi Takagi, Tokuko Watanabe

Yoshitarô, a wealthy but ignorant landowner buys, who lives in the modern city. Read More »
Antarctica AKA Nankyoku monogatari (1983) Koreyoshi Kurahara, Ken Takakura, Tsunehiko Watase, Eiji Okada

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica. Read More »
Phantoms (1998) Joe Chappelle, Peter O’Toole, Rose McGowan, Joanna Going

The resort town of Snowfield, Colo., is under attack by an evil spirit that almost wipes out the entire population, possessing a number of those it kills. Read More »
Boys on the Run AKA Bôizu on za ran (2010) Daisuke Miura, Kazunobu Mineta, Mei Kurokawa, Ryûhei Matsuda

Toshiyuki Tanishi (Mr Tanishi) is a 29-year-old chronic masturbator and toy vending machine salesman – he is socially awkward and down on his luck. Read More »
Distance (2001) Hirokazu Koreeda, Arata Iura, Yûsuke Iseya, Susumu Terajima

Members of a cult, modeled on Aum Shinrikyo, sabotage a city’s water supply Read More »
After the Storm AKA Umi yori mo mada fukaku (2016) Hirokazu Kore-eda, Hiroshi Abe, Yôko Maki, Satomi Kobayashi

Dwelling on his past glory as a prize-winning author, Ryota (Hiroshi Abe) wastes the money he makes as a private detective on gambling and can barely pay child support. Read More »