Tag Archives: Japan

An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company. Read More »

A spy learns the top secrets of a company. Read More »

Flight from Ashiya is a 1964 film about the U.S. Air Force’s Air Rescue Service, flying out of Ashiya Air Base, Japan. Read More »

A web of deceit, adultery and greed manifests in Kon Ichikawa’s remake of his own 1976 hit about a murder investigation that reveals years of hidden skeletons and a shocking family secret. Read More »

Following the murder of a radio personality in Chicago, all evidence of the crime points to a white supremacist group from Iowa. Read More »

It’s the mid 60s. Tokyo needs a new airport. There isn’t anywhere in Tokyo to put it, so the government decides on displacing some adjacent villages. Read More »

Did you know that there is a ranking of the best assassins of Japan? In the spirit of 1967’s Branded To Kill, also by director Suzuki Seijun, comes Pistol Opera. Read More »

The Tokugawa new Shogun is not interested in women. A nobleman with the help of a lady thief replaces the Shogun with a double, while he learns about love. Read More »

The protagonist is Asano who has had an amazing memory since his youth spent in Okinawa. Read More »

In 1863, when Americans warships approach Japan, a enigmatic ronin becomes a important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and the empire. Read More »