Akira comes to Kyushu to investigate the circumstances surrounding his father’s imprisonment more than 19 years ago. Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
An Actor’s Revenge (1959) Yukinojo Henge
Nakamura Yukinojo gains popularity in Edo’s kabuki scene as a handsome onnagata Read More »
Hymn / Sanka (1972) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa
The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin Read More »
Sideways / Saidoweizu (2009) Cellin Gluck, Fumiyo Kohinata, Katsuhisa Namase, Rinko Kikuchi
A middle-aged Japanese man travels to California to attend the wedding of his American-based friend. Read More »
Blue (1993) Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton, John Quentin
In his final-and most daring-cinematic statement, Jarman the romantic meets Jarman Read More »
Junk Food / Janku fudo (1997) Masashi Yamamoto, Ali Ahmed, Arata Furuta, Mika Kumagai
Blending widescreen cinematography with digital video, JUNK FOOD casts an unblinking but painterly Read More »
Yakuza Demon / Kikoku (2003) Takashi Miike, Riki Takeuchi, Yûta Sone, Mickey Curtis
Seiji and Yoshifumi are the only members of the Muto branch of the Date Family. Read More »
Nastasya / Nastazja (1994) Andrzej Wajda, Tamasaburô Bandô, Toshiyuki Nagashima
Andrzej Wajda’s Japanese-language film based on the last chapter of Dostoevsky’s Idiot Read More »
Tsuburo no gara (2004) Masafumi Yamada, Yûko Hosoe, Shunsuke Iki, Tadayoshi Nishimura
A man and a woman wake up in a hospital room. She’s a nurse, he’s a patient. Read More »
Warm Current / Danryû (1939) Kôzaburô Yoshimura, Mieko Takamine, Shin Saburi, Hideo Fujino
After his benefactor Shima falls ill, Hibiki (Shin Saburi) sets out to rebuild the hospital that Shima had run. Read More »