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Tag Archives: Japan
Only On Mondays / Getsuyôbi no Yuka (1964) Kô Nakahira, Mariko Kaga, Akira Nakao, Yasukiyo Umeno
Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa Read More »
Yatsuhaka-mura / Village of Eight Gravestones (1977) Yoshitarô Nomura, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Mayumi Ogawa, Tsutomu Yamazaki
A Tokyo man witnesses the death by poisoning of his grandfather, Read More »
Kage no kuruma / The Shadow Within (1970) Yoshitarô Nomura, Shima Iwashita, Gô Katô, Mayumi Ogawa
When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him. Read More »
Shussho Iwai / The Wolves (1971) Hideo Gosha, Rumi Aiki, Hideyo Amamoto, Noboru Andô
Seiji Iwahashi is released early from a 10-year prison sentence for killing the boss of a rival. Read More »
Travelling Actors / Tabi yakusha (1940) Mikio Naruse, Kamatari Fujiwara, Kan Yanagiya, Minoru Takase
Story about a group of actors mostly based on the guys playing the horse. Read More »
The Dancing Girl of Izu / Koi no hana saku Izu no odoriko (1933) Heinosuke Gosho, Kinuyo Tanaka, Den Ohinata, Tokuji Kobayashi
In this adaptation from Kawabata, a young student becomes friends with a brother Read More »
Yellow Crow / Kiiroi karasu (1957) Heinosuke Gosho, Chikage Awashima, Yûnosuke Itô, Kinuyo Tanaka
A young boy has formed an idealized image of his father, who has yet to be repatriated from Russia. Read More »
Once More / Ima hitotabi no (1947) Heinosuke Gosho, Mieko Takamine, Ichirô Ryûzaki, Haruo Tanaka
A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman Read More »
Saya: Perspective in Love / Saya no iru tousizu (1986) Akiyoshi Kimata, Ikue Masudo, Tatsuo Nadaka, Masami Tsuchiya
The flamboyant editor of an underground porn magazine asks his star photographer Read More »