Tag Archives: Japan

Shohei Sugiyama has attained all that he has wanted in life. But he is still depressed and unhappy. Read More »

A village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. Read More »

Set in Tokyo, *Ice* follows a young woman who brings her amnesiac older brother, Haruo Read More »

Lewd and wild, long-haired karate prodigy Kotaro Shindo wreaks havoc daily at the elite Tsurugamine Academy Read More »

In the heart of Asakusa, Tokyo, a struggling couple—Yamano, a violinist, and Hanae, a revue dancer—lives in poverty. Read More »

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

Iori, a 16-year-old boy, is forced to commit “seppuku” (ritual suicide) to follow his late sovereign Read More »

A few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a young, smart boy, in the lively Tokyo quarter of Ginza. Read More »

Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adaptation by Kaneto Shindo, Masumura Yasuzo directs. Read More »

Allegedly based on a true story, this film follows the life of Toshi, a Japanese man living in America Read More »