Tag Archives: Japan

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier Read More »

Three social outcasts who live near the seaside interact with each other in increasingly disturbing ways. Read More »

Tokyo Drifter stands with Branded to Kill as one of the best-known and most acclaimed films of Seijun Suzuki, one of Japan’s most talented maverick directors. Read More »

Romance, rape, tension, repression and death: these are the quintessential themes explored in this dialogue-free Japanese black-and-white movie. Read More »

The disillusioned general of an ancient Chinese army regiment finds himself stranded in a village populated by a strange clan with mystical connections to wolves. Read More »

Intersecting circles of obligation link a former boxer, the youth he vows to make a champion Read More »

Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil. Read More »

A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Read More »

Just released from prison after serving three years for murdering a member of a rival gang Read More »

Liberated from a slave auction, Osami joins with priest Ensai on a quest to find and deliver relics of the Buddha to Osami’s brother Read More »