“Hiroshima” is a feature film directed by Hideo Sekigawa and was independently produced outside of major studio system in 1953. Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
War of the Buttons (1994) John Roberts, Gregg Fitzgerald, Gerard Kearney, Darragh Naughton, Adventure, Drama, Family
The children of Ballydowse & Carrickdowse engage in battles in which they cut off the buttons, shoe-laces, belts and braces of their captured opponents. Read More »
Vengeance Can Wait (2010) Masanori Tominaga, Tadanobu Asano, Minami, Eiko Koike
Director Tominaga Masanori (Pandora’s Box) brings Motoya Yukiko’s offbeat play Ranbo to Taiki Read More »
Otôto / Her Brother (1960) Kon Ichikawa, Keiko Kishi, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Drama
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this standard drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.
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Yuyake-gumo / Farewell to Dream (1956) Keisuke Kinoshita, Shinji Tanaka, Yûko Mochizuki, Takahiro Tamura, Drama
A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. Read More »
Shin shikôtei / The Great Wall (1962) Shigeo Tanaka, Shintarô Katsu, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ken Utsui, Adventure
In 221 BC, Qin Shihuang conquered the rest of China. Qin’s great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Read More »
Rengoku eroica / Heroic Purgatory (1970) Yoshishige Yoshida, Mariko Okada, Kaizo Kamoda, Naho Kimura, Drama, Fantasy
Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. Read More »
Hiroshima mon amour (1959) Alain Resnais, Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Drama, Romance
A French woman and a Japanese man have an affair while she is in Japan making a film about peace and the impact of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, The man, an architect, lost his family in the bombing. Read More »
Rashômon / Rashomon (1950) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Crime, Drama
A priest, a woodcutter and another man are taking refuge from a rainstorm in the shell of a former gatehouse called Rashômon.
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Ugetsu monogatari / Ugetsu (1953) Kenji Mizoguchi, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Drama, Fantasy, War
In the beginning of the springtime in the period of the Japanese Civil Wars of the Sixteenth Century in Lake Biwa in the Province of Omi, the family man farmer and craftsman Genjurô travels to Nagahama to sell his wares and makes a small fortune.
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