This Japanese comedy is bookended by Frank Nagai’s title song, and Nagai keeps cropping up throughout the film Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
Admiral Yamamoto / Rengô kantai shirei chôkan: Yamamoto Isoroku (1968) Seiji Maruyama, Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Yôko Tsukasa
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto Read More »
An Osaka Story / Ôsaka monogatari (1957) Kôzaburô Yoshimura, Raizô Ichikawa, Kyôko Kagawa, Shintarô Katsu
Story follows a poor peasant family that through hardship gets some money and how that change them. Read More »
Irezumi / Spirit of Tattoo (1982) Yoichi Takabayashi, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Yûsuke Takita, Harue Kyô
To satisfy her lover’s fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered Read More »
In the Soup (1992) Alexandre Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Seymour Cassel, Jennifer Beals
A neurotic nebbish lives in 2 worlds: the fantasy of winning his dream-girl via a hit movie Read More »
If Cats Disappeared from the World / Sekai kara neko ga kietanara (2016) Akira Nagai, Mauro Caiazza, Gaku Hamada, Mieko Harada
Young mailman finds out he has no time left due to a terminal disease. Read More »
A Wife’s Heart / Tsuma no kokoro (1956) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi
A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop. Read More »
Wife AKA Tsuma (1953) Mikio Naruse, Mieko Takamine, Ken Uehara, Rentarô Mikuni
Tokyo. Mihoko and Toichi Nakagawa’s ten year marriage is crumbling out of inertia. Read More »
Flowing / Nagareru (1956) Mikio Naruse, Kinuyo Tanaka, Isuzu Yamada, Hideko Takamine
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Read More »
13 Steps of Maki: The Young Aristocrats / Wakai kizoku-tachi: 13-kaidan no Maki (1975) Makoto Naitô, Etsuko Shihomi, Misa Ohara, Hiroshi Nawa
Maki is the leader of a female gang that fights for justice Read More »