Kensuke Hagane (Tsuyoshi Ujiki) is a beginner in the Yakuza world , he is very fearful and nobody respect him. Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
August in the Water (1995) Gakuryû Ishii, Rena Komine, Shinsuke Aoki, Reiko Matsuo
A teenage girl gains supernatural power after an accident and comes to understand her place in the universe. Read More »
Bridget (2002) Amos Kollek, Anna Levine, David Wike, Lance Reddick
Finishing his trilogy about desperate young women in New York, Amos Kollek focuses on an alcoholic Read More »
Samurai Banners (1969) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshiko Sakuma, Kinnosuke Nakamura
Feudal Japan, 1543 to 1562. Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. Read More »
Double Suicide (1969) Masahiro Shinoda, Kichiemon Nakamura, Shima Iwashita, Shizue Kawarazaki
Set in Osaka in the 18th century, the film centers on the doomed romance between Jihei (Kichiemon Nakamura) Read More »
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Kôji Tsuruta
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. Read More »
The Three Treasures (1959) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Akihiko Hirata
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor Keikoh’s son Ouso expects to succeed his father Read More »
Exchange Students (1982) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Satomi Kobayashi, Toshinori Omi, Makoto Satô
9th-graders Kazuo (boy) and Kazumi (girl) take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Read More »
Let’s Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii (1964) Ryuichi Takamori, Kazuo Funaki, Taeko Hamada, Chiyoko Honma
A young man longs to travel to Hawaii, the birthplace of his deceased father Read More »
The Chef of South Polar (2009) Shûichi Okita, Masato Sakai, Kengo Kôra, Kosuke Toyohara
Nishimura has a passion for cooking, but never would he have imagined the task before him now Read More »