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Tag Archives: Japan
The Secret of the urn (1966) Hideo Gosha, Bin Amatsu, Keiko Awaji, Takuya Fujioka, Action, Adventure, Drama
Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. Read More »
Four Days of Snow and Blood (1989) Hideo Gosha, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Tomokazu Miura, Masahiro Motoki, Action, Drama, War
Based on the “2.26 Incident”, an attempted coup d’état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Read More »
Death Shadow (1986) Hideo Gosha, Mariko Ishihara, Masanori Sera, Mari Natsuki, Action, Drama
Three men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of ruthless ninjas working for mysterious high ranking officials. Read More »
Trials of an Okinawa Village (1971) Shigehiro Ozawa, Junko Fuji, Bunta Sugawara, Michitarô Mizushima, Action, Crime, Drama
A female of a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of Okinawa. Read More »
Kyo mo mata kakute ari nan / Thus Another Day (1959) Keisuke Kinoshita, Teiji Takahashi, Yoshiko Kuga, Kanzaburô Nakamura, Drama, Romance
A young wife looses patience with her career-minded husband and returns to her parents’ home while an unpaid mortgage force the couple to rent out their home for the summer to the husband’s boss. Read More »
Kono ten no niji / The Eternal Rainbow (1958) Keisuke Kinoshita, Teiji Takahashi, Yoshiko Kuga, Takahiro Tamura, Drama
Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker. Read More »
Hakujitsumu / Daydream (1964) Tetsuji Takechi, Kanako Michi, Akira Ishihama, Chôjûrô Hanakawa, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
While under sedation in a dentist’s office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women, vampires and a beautiful patient he saw in the office. Read More »
Kurobe no taiyo / The Sands of Kurobe (1968) Kei Kumai, Toshirô Mifune, Yûjirô Ishihara, Osamu Takizawa, Drama
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. Read More »
Taiyo to bara / The Rose on His Arm (1956) Keisuke Kinoshita, Akira Ishihama, Katsuo Nakamura, Sadako Sawamura, Drama
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza. Read More »