Tag Archives: Japan

Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. Read More »

Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. Read More »

Seduction, betrayal, murder, insomnia and apparitions are the elements at play in Wayne Wang’s tense and masterful version Read More »

After a life in reform school, Rika (Reiko Oshida) tries her hand at becoming a decent, upstanding citizen. Read More »

A young Japanese man finds himself in the company of a strange, effeminate gay man and a girl with a seedy sexual history and who even now is pregnant again. Read More »

Tetsuaki is an unpublished novelist who makes his living by taking odd jobs. Read More »

A story about the rise and fall of United Red Army, a real life 70s short-lived Japanese armed revolutionary communist movement Read More »

A biographical film looking back at the life, work and significance of the genius of world cinema. Read More »

Based on novel by Shintaro Ishihara, this is a human drama about the complex relationship of parent and child. Read More »

One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. Read More »