Tora-San, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father’s house twenty years Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
Sharaku (1995) Masahiro Shinoda, Hiroyuki Sanada, Furankî Sakai, Shima Iwashita
A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. Read More »
Love/Juice (2000) Kaze Shindô, Mika Okuno, Chika Fujimura, Toshiya Nagasawa
Twenty-something lesbian Chinatsu shares a one-bedroom apartment with heterosexual Kyoko. Read More »
Black Lizard / Kurotokage (1962) Umetsugu Inoue, Machiko Kyô, Minoru Ôki, Junko Kanô
Kurotokage (1962, aka Black Lizard) has its origins in a 1934 detective novel Read More »
The Bad Sleep Well / Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (1960) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa
It is a high-profile wedding: the daughter of Mr Iwabuchi, a wealthy businessman Read More »
Tora-san 34 / Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajirô shinjitsu ichiro (1984) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Masami Shimojô
Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salary man Read More »
Tora-san 33 / Otoko wa tsurai yo: Yogiri ni musebu torajiro (1984) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Rie Nakahara
In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san’s family prepares for a wedding. Read More »
Distant Justice (1992) Tôru Murakawa, Bunta Sugawara, David Carradine, George Kennedy
After his daughter is kidnapped and his wife murdered by drug dealers Read More »
Judgment Night (1993) Stephen Hopkins, Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Denis Leary
Four pals are on their way to a boxing match, but get stuck in heavy traffic. Read More »
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021) Arthur Harari
When Japan surrenders at the end of World War II, soldier Hiroo Onoda Read More »