Two members of a Japanese junior baseball team get mixed up with the local yakuza. Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky (2009) Jan Kounen, Anna Mouglalis, Mads Mikkelsen, Elena Morozova
Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Read More »
License to Live AKA Ningen gôkaku (1998) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Shun Sugata, Lily
Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Read More »
Scrap Heaven (2005) Sang-il Lee, Ryô Kase, Joe Odagiri, Chiaki Kuriyama
A cop, a sanitation worker and a pharmacist intersect on a late bus ride that’s hijacked by a suicidal political flunky. Read More »
Resurrection AKA Yomigaeri (2002) Akihiko Shiota, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Yûko Takeuchi, Yuriko Ishida
In the town of Aso a boy returns to his mother after he was missing for 58 years. Read More »
The Man Without a Map AKA Moetsukita chizu (1968) Hiroshi Teshigahara, Shintarô Katsu, Etsuko Ichihara, Osamu Ôkawa
A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. Contradictory evidence and the lack of clues soon render the case as virtually unsolvable Read More »
Heaven and Earth / Ten to Chi to (1990) Haruki Kadokawa, Takaaki Enoki, Masahiko Tsugawa, Atsuko Asano
Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. Read More »
The Whispering Star AKA Hiso hiso boshi (2015) Sion Sono, Kenji Endo, Yûto Ikeda, Megumi Kagurazaka
A feminine android delivers packages to the scattered humans in the galaxy. Read More »
The Flower, the Storm, and the Gang AKA Hana to arashi to gyangu (1961) Teruo Ishii, Ken Takakura, Kôji Tsuruta, Mamoru Ogawa
This is an important early Toei yakuza film, starring a young Ken Takakura as a wild Read More »
A Room for Rent AKA Kashima ari (1959) Yûzô Kawashima, Furankî Sakai, Nobuko Otowa, Ikio Sawamura
The story follows the various tenants living in a multi-room tenement on a hill overlooking the city of Osaka. Read More »