
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 »
Tag Archives: Japan
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 »
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 »
Nihon no don: kanketsuhen / The Godfather: Resolution (1978) Sadao Nakajima, Toshirô Mifune, Bunta Sugawara, Naoko Ôtani, Crime, Drama

Double crosses and backstabbing while older yakuza bosses fight for the title of “The Godfather of Japan” violent history and a cast full of stars. Read More »
Dead End Run (2003) Gakuryû Ishii, Tadanobu Asano, Urara Awata, Mikako Ichikawa, Action, Thriller

Dead End Run is an hour length collection of three short films by Japanese visual genius Ishii Sogo. Read More »
Nihon no fûikusaîchi / The Fixer (1979) Yasuo Furuhata, Shin Saburi, Masakazu Tamura, Kyôko Enami, Crime

A fixer controls political events from behind the scenes – the portrait of a political fixer and his machinations. Read More »
Yoru no nagare / Evening Stream (1960) Yûzô Kawashima, Mikio Naruse, Yôko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Akira Takarada, Drama

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. Read More »