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Tag Archives: Japan
Megane / Glasses (2007) Naoko Ogigami, Satomi Kobayashi

Taeko an stressed out career woman leaves her stressed out life in the city for an island vacation. Read More »
Kono ko wo nokoshite / Children of Nagasaki (1983)

In Nagasaki, Japan, on 09 August 1945, at 11:02 AM, 80.000 dead and thousand of persons wounded Read More »
Karakkaze yarô / Afraid to Die (1960) Yasuzô Masumura

A group of yakuza is hired to break a strike and an antihero of his former law partners faces Read More »
Shall We Dance? / Shall we dansu? (1996) Masayuki Suo

Shohei Sugiyama has attained all that he has wanted in life. But he is still depressed and unhappy. Read More »
The Twilight Story / Bokutô kitan (1960) Shirô Toyoda

A village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. Read More »
Sangatsu no raion / March Comes in Like a Lion (1991)

Set in Tokyo, *Ice* follows a young woman who brings her amnesiac older brother, Haruo Read More »
Kotaro makari-toru! / Death of a Ninja (1984)

Lewd and wild, long-haired karate prodigy Kotaro Shindo wreaks havoc daily at the elite Tsurugamine Academy Read More »
Odoriko / Dancing Girl (1957) Hiroshi Shimizu

In the heart of Asakusa, Tokyo, a struggling couple—Yamano, a violinist, and Hanae, a revue dancer—lives in poverty. Read More »
Sono yo wa wasurenai / A Night to Remember (1962) Kôzaburô Yoshimura, Ayako Wakao, Jirô Tamiya, Keizô Kawasaki

Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter embarks Read More »