Two figures of the pink cinema – director Sato Hisayasu and screenwriter Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
24 Hour Playboy / Ai to heisei no iro – Otoko (1989) Yoshimitsu Morita, Jun’ichi Ishida, Honami Suzuki, Kumiko Takeda
He is a dentist by profession. He is a saxophonist on the side Read More »
Sun on the Horizon / Hi wa katabuki (1996) Naomi Kawase, Uno Kawase
The last piece of the trilogy, following ‘Katatsumori’ and ‘See Heaven’, filming her grandma and herself. Read More »
The Rambler Rides Again / Daisogen no wataridori (1960) Buichi Saitô, Akira Kobayashi, Jô Shishido, Ruriko Asaoka
Taki (Kobayashi), a wandering, singing cowboy, comes upon a village in Hokkaido Read More »
Tokyo Heaven / Tôkyô jôkû irasshaimase (1990) Shinji Sômai, Kiichi Nakai, Riho Makise, Tsurube Shôfukutei
Yuu Kamiya is an up-and-coming talent in Japanese show business. Read More »
Rice / Kome (1957) Tadashi Imai, Shinjirô Ebara, Eijirô Tôno, Yûko Mochizuki
The heroes and heroines are all rice farmers, struggling Read More »
The 47 Ronin / Chûshingura (1962) Hiroshi Inagaki, Yûzô Kayama, Chûsha Ichikawa, Tatsuya Mihashi
A young lord attempts to combat the corruption endemic to the Shogunate bureaucracy Read More »
The Incident / Jiken (1978) Yoshitarô Nomura, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinobu Ôtake, Toshiyuki Nagashima
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife Read More »
Introspection Tower / Mikaheri no tô (1941) Hiroshi Shimizu, Chimura Enoki, Teruo Furuya, Mamiko Harada
Problem kids come to a reformatory school where they live, study and work. Read More »
Invisible Man Appears / Tômei ningen arawaru (1949) Nobuo Adachi, Shigehiro Fukushima, Chizuru Kitagawa, Takiko Mizunoe, Daijirô Natsukawa
“There is no good or evil in science, but it can be used for good or evil purposes.” Read More »