Tag Archives: Japan

In Tokyo in 1888, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adoptive son of an important actor, discovers that he is praised for his acting only because he is his father’s heir Read More »

Ambitious yakuza Kenji befriends harmonica-playing bartender Chuji, who moonlights as a part-time drug-dealer for the opposing gang. Read More »

A young factory worker is picked up and courted by a clumsy youth with yakuza dreams, over one long day and a night. Read More »

Naoko, female art teacher suffering from bipolar disorder spends her time at home compulsively chopping cabbage. Read More »

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy Read More »

After being raped in an unknown rooftop, nineteen year-old girl Poppo meets a mysterious boy, and both share their sexual traumas and fears, with fatal consequences. Read More »

A young woman reaches maturity and yearns to know about her father. Her mother has poisoned her mind about the man who left her for another woman. Read More »

Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa’s sister, Rei, to a wheelchair. Read More »

In the slums of Osaka, various marginalized misfits have their own interpretations of love. Read More »

The film stars two of Itami’s regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as her unfaithful, sometimes partner. Read More »