In the slums of Osaka, various marginalized misfits have their own interpretations of love. Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
Shûen / The Flame of Devotion (1964) Koreyoshi Kurahara, Ruriko Asaoka, Izumi Ashikawa, Jûzô Itami, Drama, Romance
The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman’s son, and her devotion to him during a time of war. Read More »
Ageman / Tales of a Golden Geisha (1990) Jûzô Itami, Nobuko Miyamoto, Masahiko Tsugawa, Hiroshi Ohkôchi, Comedy, Drama
The film stars two of Itami’s regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as her unfaithful, sometimes partner. Read More »
The Pornographers: Introduction to Anthropology (1966) Shôhei Imamura, Shôichi Ozawa, Sumiko Sakamoto, Ganjirô Nakamura, Comedy, Drama
Mr. Ogata lives a complicated life: he is a pornographer making two skin flicks per day and trying to stay beneath the radar screen of the local mob Read More »
Kuroi Ame / Black Rain (1989) Shôhei Imamura, Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura, Etsuko Ichihara, Drama
Mr and Mrs Shizuma, and their niece Yasuko, make their way through the ruins of Hiroshima, just after the atomic bomb has dropped. Read More »
Onna no naka ni iru tanin / The Stranger Within a Woman (1966) Mikio Naruse, Keiju Kobayashi, Michiyo Aratama, Mitsuko Kusabue, Crime, Drama
Tashiro (Keiju Kobayashi) coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto (Tatsuya Mihashi) in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Read More »
Youth of the Beast / Yajû no seishun (1963) Seijun Suzuki, Jô Shishido, Misako Watanabe, Tamio Kawachi, Action, Crime, Mystery
Joe Shishido plays a tough guy with a secret agenda. His violent behavior comes to the attention of a yakuza boss who immediately recruits him. Read More »
Banshun / Late Spring (1949) Yasujirô Ozu, Chishû Ryû, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Drama
Noriko is 27 years old and is still living with her father Somiya, a widower. Read More »