Set during the last days of the Tokugawa (Edo) Period, Moeyo-ken tells the story of Hijikata Toshizo and the Shinsengumi. Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
Shinsengumi Last Days of the Shogunate / Shoretsu shinsengumi – bakumatsu no doran (1960) Yasushi Sasaki, Chiezô Kataoka, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Yatarô Kurokawa
Near the end of the Edo period, a military force known as Shinsengumi guards the Shogun. Read More »
Rise Against the Sword / Abare Gôemon (1966) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Nobuko Otowa, Makoto Satô
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. Read More »
Door (1988) Banmei Takahashi, Keiko Takahashi, Daijirô Tsutsumi, Shirô Shimomoto
After several strangely threatening calls from a local salesman Read More »
The Third Yakuza II / Shin daisan no gokudô II (1996) Takashi Miike, Keishiro Kojima, Kiyoshi Nakajoe, Asami Sawaki
A secret family business that no one knows! Men swear their lives when they Read More »
The Third Yakuza / Shin daisan no gokudô – boppatsu Kansai gokudô sensô (1996) Takashi Miike, Takeshi Caesar, Keishiro Kojima, Kiyoshi Nakajoe
Masaki Hattori decides to name new leader of the clan “everything”. Read More »
The Glorious Asuka Gang! / Hana no asuka gumi! (1988) Yôichi Sai, Miho Tsumiki, Yôko Kikuchi, Kumiko Takeda
In this flower of the bird group action film, according to the high mouth pure title for the comic book Read More »
By a Man’s Face Shall You Know Him / Otokonokao wa rirekisho (1966) Tai Katô, Noboru Andô, Kanjûrô Arashi, Torahiko Hamada
Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz Read More »
The Twilight Samurai / Tasogare Seibei (2002) Yôji Yamada, Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi
Seibei Iguchi, a low-ranking samurai, leads a life without glory as a bureaucrat in the mid-XIX century Japan. Read More »
Thousand Cranes / Senba zuru (1969) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Machiko Kyô, Mikijirô Hira
The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher Read More »