The widow of the eldest son of a large family is financially dependent on her husband’s relatives. Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
18 Who Cause a Storm (1963) Yoshishige Yoshida, Tamotsu Hayakawa, Yoshiko Kayama, Taiji Tonoyama
A shipyard worker gets an offer of free lodging in the company seaside rest house. Read More »
Taiheiyô hitoribocchi / Alone Across the Pacific (1963) Kon Ichikawa, Yûjirô Ishihara, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka
Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing Read More »
Organized Crime – Loyalty Offering Brothers / Soshiki boryoku: kyodai sakazuki (1969) Jun’ya Satô, Bunta Sugawara, Noboru Andô, Kyôsuke Machida
After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô) Read More »
Waterboys / Wôtâ bôizu (2001) Shinobu Yaguchi, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Hiroshi Tamaki, Akifumi Miura
All it takes for a bunch of schoolboys to join the swim club is the arrival of a pretty teacher who clearly is considered a babe. Read More »
Bye Bye Love / Baibai rabu (1974) Isao Fujisawa, Atsuko Ami, Miyabi Ichijô, Yûzô Morita
Two young people undertake a doomed summer road trip through Japan Read More »
Heart, Beating in the Dark / Yami utsu shinzô (2005) Shunichi Nagasaki, Noriko Eguchi, Shoichi Honda, Kaori Mizushima
A young couple are on the run after killing their baby. They hide out for the night in a dingy apartment. Read More »
The Torture Club / Chotto kawaii aian meiden (2014) Kôta Yoshida, Reiko Hayama, Noriko Kijima, Yuki Mamiya
Yuzuki (Noriko Kijima) is accepted into the school of her dreams, but it takes quite Read More »
Cat Girl Gambler: Murder Incorporated (1966)
After stopping a pickpocket on his job, Yukiko gets drawn into a high-stakes game of the Yakuza clans in her father’s home town. Read More »
The Homeless / Yadonashi (1974) Kôichi Saitô, Ken Takakura, Shintarô Katsu, Ichirô Nakatani
The Homeless follows the story of two prisoners released the same day Read More »