After leaving high school, Michio Yamada (Norio Nagayama in the real life incidents) becomes involved in the shudan shushoku Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
A Lonely Cow Weeps at Dawn (2003) Daisuke Gotô, Hôryû Nakamura, Ryôko Asagi, Yumeka Sasaki
A young widow, Noriko, lives with her senile father-in-law, Shukichi, on a farm. Read More »
I Was Born, But… (1932) Yasujirô Ozu, Tatsuo Saitô, Tomio Aoki, Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Read More »
Mother (1952) Mikio Naruse, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kyôko Kagawa, Eiji Okada
Adopted from a prize-winning school essay on the subject of ‘My Mother,’ upon being widowed a mother with Read More »
Okinawa: The Ten-Year War (1978) Akinori Matsuo, Hiroki Matsukata, Shin’ichi Chiba, Yumiko Nogawa
It’s the tale of Iba Choyu and Iba Choichi and their adopted brother Tomoyuki who grow up to be yakuza on the Okinawa Read More »
Summer Clouds (1958) Mikio Naruse, Chikage Awashima, Michiyo Aratama, Kumi Mizuno
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. Read More »
The Life of Chikuzan (1977) Kaneto Shindô, Ryûzô Hayashi, Nobuko Otowa, Mitsuko Baishô
Chikuzan Takahashi, in his late sixties at the time of filming, is a blind musician who has spent most of his life on the roads of Northern Japan Read More »
Every-Night Dreams (1933) Mikio Naruse, Sumiko Kurishima, Tatsuo Saitô, Jun Arai
A single mother works tirelessly as a Ginza bar hostess to ensure a better life for her young son until–her long-lost husband returns. Read More »
Youth in Fury (1960) Masahiro Shinoda, Shin’ichirô Mikami, Shima Iwashita, Kayoko Honoo
A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku’s iconoclastic New Wave. Read More »
Jirocho Fuji (1959) Kazuo Mori, Kazuo Hasegawa, Raizô Ichikawa, Shintarô Katsu
An all-star cast from Daiei Film Company has made “the ultimate Jirocho movie” about the legendary yakuza Shimizu no Jirocho, the biggest Boss in the Tokaido area. Read More »