It’s brother against brother and father against son in this all-star yakuza epic. Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
Preparation for the Festival / Matsuri no junbi (1975) Kazuo Kuroki, Jun Etô, Haruko Mabuchi, Hajime Hana
A young Japanese man comes to the realization that he must leave Read More »
The Gift of Pachamama / El regalo de la Pachamama (2008) Toshifumi Matsushita, Christian Huaygua, Luis Mamani, Faniy Mosques
Kunturi is a 13-year old boy living a traditional life with his family near Uyuni, a salt lake. Read More »
Diary of a Mad Old Man / Fûten Rôjin nikki (1962) Keigo Kimura, Sô Yamamura, Ayako Wakao, Keizô Kawasaki
Diary of a Mad Old Man is the journal of Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke. Read More »
Shadow of Deception / Naikai no wa (1971) Kôichi Saitô, Shima Iwashita, Akira Nakao, Rentarô Mikuni
Five years ago Minako spent a night with Sozo, the younger brother of her ex-husband. Read More »
The Seburi Story / Seburi monogatari (1985) Sadao Nakajima, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Yumiko Fujita, Michiko Kohno
The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject Read More »
Tora-san 44 / Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro no kokuhaku (1991) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Hideko Yoshida
When Izumi can’t stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. Read More »
Tora-san 43 / Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro no kyuujitsu (1990) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Mari Natsuki
Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad Read More »
Here Because of You / Kimitachi ga ite boku ga ita (1964) Ryuichi Takamori, Ushio Akashi, Shigeko Arai, Shin’ichi Chiba
An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors Read More »
Labyrinth Romanesque / Hanazono no meikyu (1988) Shun’ya Itô, Yôko Shimada, Yûya Uchida, Yûki Kudô
Based on Edogawa Ranpo Award winner “Hanazono no Meikyu” by Yoko Yamazaki. Read More »