Did you know that there is a ranking of the best assassins of Japan? In the spirit of 1967’s Branded To Kill, also by director Suzuki Seijun, comes Pistol Opera. Read More »
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Lustful Shogun and His 21 Mistresses (1972) Noribumi Suzuki, Shin’ichirô Hayashi, Reiko Ike, Yayoi Watanabe
The Tokugawa new Shogun is not interested in women. A nobleman with the help of a lady thief replaces the Shogun with a double, while he learns about love. Read More »
Away With Words (1999) Christopher Doyle, Tadanobu Asano, Georgina Hobson, Christa Hughes
The protagonist is Asano who has had an amazing memory since his youth spent in Okinawa. Read More »
Assassination (1964) Masahiro Shinoda, Tetsurô Tanba, Shima Iwashita, Eiji Okada
In 1863, when Americans warships approach Japan, a enigmatic ronin becomes a important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and the empire. Read More »
A Certain Killer (1967) Kazuo Mori, Raizô Ichikawa, Mikio Narita, Yumiko Nogawa
The main character is a man from the WW2 generation who has lost his dreams in post-war Japan.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity 4: Police Tactics (1974) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Akira Kobayashi, Tatsuo Umemiya
Conflicts between Hirono’s family and Yamamori’s family (and their allies) are made more tense by the ambitious underlings and the police’s efforts to impose a crackdown on the gangs. Read More »
Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Deadly Fight In Hiroshima (1973) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Shin’ichi Chiba, Meiko Kaji
A young criminal joins a yakuza family to kill the gangsters who beat him up Read More »
The Haunted Castle (1969) Tokuzô Tanaka, Kôjirô Hongô, Naomi Kobayashi, Mitsuyo Kamei, Horror
The film takes place during the rule of the eighth shogun Yoshimune, placing the film’s setting somewhere between 1716 and 1745 Read More »
The Master Spearman (1960) Tomu Uchida, Chikage Awashima, Hiromi Hanazono, Kensaku Hara, Drama
Kurando is a retired samurai. Granted a last-second reprieve from the obligation to commit Harakiri Read More »
Welcome Home (1995) Makoto Shinozaki, Tomio Aoki, Ayaka Horie, Shoichi Komatsu, Drama
Yuriko works at home all day as a tape transcriber, while her husband, Takashi, works as a school teacher. Read More »