A bad boy can win their hearts and drive them apart even in the 1930s and even in Japan Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
Tora-san’s Forget Me Not AKA Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro wasurenagusa (1973) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Ruriko Asaoka
Tora visits his family after a year. After a misunderstanding he gets upset and leaves to end up in the countryside. Read More »
Versus (2000) Ryûhei Kitamura, Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki, Chieko Misaka
Set in the present where a group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met Read More »
April Story AKA Shigatsu monogatari (1998) Shunji Iwai, Takako Matsu, Seiichi Tanabe, Kaori Fujii
In spring, a girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo. Read More »
The Great Chase AKA Karei-naru tsuiseki (1975) Norifumi Suzuki, Etsuko Shihomi, Hisako Tanaka, Mach Fumiake
A female plays a race car driver lends her services to the Japanese Secret Service. Read More »
Sandakan 8 AKA Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo (1974) Kei Kumai, Komaki Kurihara, Yôko Takahashi, Kinuyo Tanaka
A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution Read More »
Pastoral: To Die in the Country AKA Den-en ni shisu (1974) Shûji Terayama, Kaoru Yachigusa, Keiko Niitaka, Masumi Harukawa
A young boys’ coming of age tale set in a strange Read More »
Bad Boys AKA Furyo shonen (1961) Susumu Hani, Yukio Yamada, Hirokazu Yoshitake, Koichiro Yamazaki
Directed in documentary style about a number of delinquent boys in a reformatory Read More »
The Eagle and the Hawk AKA Washi to taka (1957) Umetsugu Inoue, Yûjirô Ishihara, Rentarô Mikuni, Ruriko Asaoka
In this murder mystery musical, trouble comes in pairs on a cargo ship Read More »
Shinjuku, Messy District: I’ll Be There AKA Shinjuku midaregai: Ikumade matte (1977) Chûsei Sone, Miyako Yamaguchi, Moeko Ezawa, Jun Aki
Chûsei Sone’s self-reflective take on Shinjuku Bohemian life Read More »