Japanese-Brazilian Mario and Chinese hairdresser Kei are lovers. Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
A Japanese Tragedy AKA Nihon no higeki (1953) Keisuke Kinoshita, Yûko Mochizuki, Yôko Katsuragi, Masami Taura
Alternating in time, between the end of World War II and 1953, Haruko, a widow Read More »
Young Boss Takeshi AKA Waka oyabun (1965) Kazuo Ikehiro, Raizô Ichikawa, Yukiji Asaoka, Shiho Fujimura
This is the story of Takeshi Nanjo, the young boss of Nanjyo family in the meiji-era of Japan. Read More »
Dodes’ka-den AKA Dodesukaden (1970) Akira Kurosawa, Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura
An anthology of overlapping vignettes exploring the lives of a variety of characters who happen to live Read More »
Grass Labyrinth AKA Kusa-meikyû (1979) Shûji Terayama, Hiroshi Mikami, Takeshi Wakamatsu, Keiko Niitaka
A young man’s determination to recover the lyrics and music to a song he loved Read More »
Alive (2002) Ryûhei Kitamura, Hideo Sakaki, Ryô, Koyuki
Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. Read More »
The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch AKA Hebi musume to hakuhatsuma (1968) Noriaki Yuasa, Yûko Hamada, Sachiko Meguro, Yachie Matsui
Extremely fun Daiei adaptation of two shojo horror manga into a single, crazily FX-laden story about two rival Read More »
The Lady Vampire AKA Onna kyûketsuki (1959) Nobuo Nakagawa, Shigeru Amachi, Takashi Wada, Junko Ikeuchi
A woman who’s been missing for twenty years suddenly turns up alive, and looking not a day older than when she vanished. Read More »
A Hole of My Own Making AKA Jibun no ana no nakade (1955) Tomu Uchida, Rentarô Mikuni, Yumeji Tsukioka, Mie Kitahara
Amidst endless construction and aircraft noise, a family whose father died in the war slowly disintegrates Read More »
The Samurai I Loved AKA Semishigure (2005) Mitsuo Kurotsuchi, Somegorô Ichikawa, Yoshino Kimura, Kôji Imada
A young swordsman is forced into a tough situation. He must resolve a potential power struggle that involves his adolescent crush Fuku. Read More »