Tag Archives: Japan

A wheelchair bound man goes on a killing spree to ease his hurt when a local college coed rebuffs his amorous advances. Read More »

Nobuko (Hideko Takamine) is a gentle Japanese woman who endures several ordeals during her adult life in this somber, sentimental drama. Read More »

The award-winning director of such esteemed films as Black Rain and The Ballad of Narayama has chosen here to tell the decidedly dicey true tale of Iheiji Muraoka Read More »

A young pick-pocket meets a sheltered teenage girl at an art museum while trying to lift her wallet. Read More »

Young college student Shizuka is given the opportunity to act in a stage play with professionals. Read More »

Iyo is a teenage girl from a bourgeois family living nearby the Sea of Japan. Read More »

A female golfer who has exceeded expectations to reach the top not only has to contend with being in-demand Read More »

Tsutomu meets Kee outside a Pachinko hall. The two strike up an unlikely friendship. Read More »

Takei Shigejiro belongs to the Shimazu family. When his boss gets killed, he takes revenge and ends up in prison. Read More »

In 1838, on the penal colony of Hachijo Island, the ex-courtesan Toyogiku, convicted of arson in the capital Read More »