Tomonori, a third-rate model, is very unhappy with her demeaning job of handing out leaflets Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
Aesthetics of a Bullet / Teppôdama no bigaku (1973) Sadao Nakajima, Tsunehiko Watase, Miki Sugimoto, Mitsuru Mori
A low-life crook gets a job as a yakuza hit-man and proceeds to pretend to be a big shot. Read More »
The Naked Woman and the Gun / Rajo to kenjû (1957) Seijun Suzuki, Michitarô Mizushima, Mari Shiraki, Ichirô Sugai
A Tokyo newspaper reporter goes after the Japanese king of cocaine trafficking Read More »
Satan’s Town / Akuma no machi (1956) Seijun Suzuki, Seizaburô Kawazu, Ichirô Sugai, Azusa Yumi
A notorious murderer Oba escapes from jail. Hayasaki, the Oba’s right hand Read More »
Night of the Shooting Stars (2003) Shin Togashi, Yûko Takeuchi, Hisashi Yoshizawa, Yûko Itô
Working long hours in the emergency room, nurse Kana Aoshima befriends musician and frequent hospital patient Shogo Amami. Read More »
Analife / Anaraifu (2005) Kenji Goda, Ayumi Masuda, Nobusada Takahashi, Yôhei Toyoda
Three people find themselves in a proctologist’s waiting room. Read More »
Ohara Shôsuke-san / Mr. Shosuke Ohara (1949) Hiroshi Shimizu, Koume Akasaka, Akiko Kazami, Denjirô Ôkôchi
Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can’t refuse the many villagers Read More »
Crossroads of Death / Shi no jûjiro (1956) Umetsugu Inoue, Rentarô Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Hisano Yamaoka
Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having Read More »
Golden Demon / Konjiki yasha (1954) Kôji Shima, Jun Negami, Fujiko Yamamoto, Kenji Sugawara
Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage Read More »
A Woman Crying in Spring (1933) Hiroshi Shimizu, Akiko Chihaya, Ryuko Fuji, Shizue Hyôdô
Described by David Bordwell as ‘probably the greatest revelation’ of the retrospective of Shochiku’s Read More »