Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
I Want to be a Shellfish (1959) Shinobu Hashimoto, Furankî Sakai, Michiyo Aratama, Kumi Mizuno
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband Read More »
One Wonderful Sunday (1947) Akira Kurosawa, Isao Numasaki, Chieko Nakakita, Atsushi Watanabe
Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. Read More »
While the Women Are Sleeping (2016) Wayne Wang, Takeshi Kitano, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Sayuri Oyamada
Seduction, betrayal, murder, insomnia and apparitions are the elements at play in Wayne Wang’s tense and masterful version Read More »
Samurai Vendetta (1959) Kazuo Mori, Raizô Ichikawa, Shintarô Katsu, Chitose Maki
Tange Tenzen and Nakayama Yasubei are honorable samurai living in an era of corrupt officials and treacherous clans. Read More »
Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams (1970) Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, Reiko Oshida, Masumi Tachibana, Yukie Kagawa
After a life in reform school, Rika (Reiko Oshida) tries her hand at becoming a decent, upstanding citizen. Read More »
Puppets Under Starry Skies (1978) Hôjin Hashiura, Yoichi Miura, Kazuhito Takei, Ako
A young Japanese man finds himself in the company of a strange, effeminate gay man and a girl with a seedy sexual history and who even now is pregnant again. Read More »
Honeymoon (1984) Hôjin Hashiura, Kôichi Satô, Kumi Nakamura, Masataka Abe
Tetsuaki is an unpublished novelist who makes his living by taking odd jobs. Read More »
United Red Army (2007) Kôji Wakamatsu, Maki Sakai, Arata Iura, Akie Namiki
A story about the rise and fall of United Red Army, a real life 70s short-lived Japanese armed revolutionary communist movement Read More »
Older Brother, Younger Sister (1953) Mikio Naruse, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Yoshiko Kuga
The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata Read More »