Tag Archives: Japan

In 1985, Makoto Tezuka, the son of manga genius Osamu Tezuka, was still a film student with a few experimental shorts to his credit Read More »

In a future where World War II never ended, Japan is decimated by nightly bombings. Read More »

Richshaw man Tatsu has wandered to Osaka from Tokyo. He has quarrels with Kimiyakko, a geisha, and throws her into the river. Read More »

Seiji works on construction sites. He sympathizes with Hosaka just back from Thailand. Read More »

Bangkok, 2015. Ozawa, a Japanese man who had nowhere to go, meets Luck, a woman has reached the height of her glory on Thaniya Street Read More »

The film is based on true events. It centers around Shunzo, a popular greengrocer who lives in a city near Tokyo. Read More »

Poet Akiko Yosano is a poor woman with many children, she composes while doing the housework. Read More »

A uniformly excellent, no-no-nonsense, straightforward yakuza sage. Read More »

The setting is that of a farming family in Ibaraki from where also the originating writers hailed. Read More »

The film centers an aged movie extra who specializes to be killed in samurai movies without ever being lit by the limelight. Read More »