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Tag Archives: Japan
Intentions of Murder (1964) Shôhei Imamura, Masumi Harukawa, Kô Nishimura, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

A housewife living under her tyrannical husband has her life stressfully turned upside down after getting raped by a burglar. Read More »
Moving (1993) Shinji Sômai, Kiichi Nakai, Junko Sakurada, Tomoko Tabata

Renko, a girl in the sixth grade, is at first unperturbed by her parents’ decision to separate. Read More »
Owls Castle (1999) Masahiro Shinoda, Kiichi Nakai, Mayu Tsuruta, Riona Hazuki

As the great military commander Nobunaga Oda was consolidating his power across Japan, one of his actions was to wipe out a clan of assassins Read More »
Black Rose Ascension (1975) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Shin Kishida, Naomi Tani, Meika Seri

Shin Kishida stars as Juzo, a self-important pinku eiga director plainly modeled on Nagisa Oshima. Read More »
R100 (2013) Hitoshi Matsumoto, Nao Ohmori, Mao Daichi, Shinobu Terajima

An ordinary man with an ordinary life joins a mysterious club. The membership lasts for one year only and there is one rule: no cancellation under any circumstance. Read More »
The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001) Takashi Miike, Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinji Takeda

A pioneer of a man convinces his family to take advantage of news of a road soon to be built through an area of the country that can be had for next to nothing. Read More »
Negotiator (2003) Takashi Miike, Hiroshi Mikami, Mayu Tsuruta, Shirô Sano

After a convenience store robbery, three unidentified men hold a group of people hostage in a hospital. Read More »
Alley Cat (2000) Kon Ichikawa, Kôji Yakusho, Yûko Asano, Tsurutarô Kataoka

Samurai Koheita Mochizuki, who goes by the nickname Dora-Heita, meaning “alley cat” or “playboy” Read More »
Lesson of the Evil (2012) Takashi Miike, Takayuki Yamada, Shôta Sometani, Fumi Nikaidô

A popular high school teacher concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body. Read More »