When a young solider is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold into a life of prostitution Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
Okatsu the Fugitive / Yôen dokufu-den: Okatsu kyôjô tabi (1969) Nobuo Nakagawa, Junko Miyazono, Reiko Ônobuta, Tôru Abe
Okatsu: a “tomboy” who is good with a sword. Her father has found her a man to marry Read More »
Tora-san 13 / Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro koiyatsure (1974) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Sayuri Yoshinaga
After Torajiro’s latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again Read More »
‘Blow the Night!’ Yoru o buttobase (1983) Chûsei Sone, Yuka Komatsu, Shûichirô Moriyama, Moeko Ezawa
“BLOW THE NIGHT!” Let’s Spend the Night Together is a 1983 Japanese docu-drama shot on 16mm Read More »
Street Mobster / Gendai yakuza: Hito-kiri yota (1972) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Noboru Andô, Mayumi Nagisa
A yakuza, who has an untamed rage and lack of respect for authority, finds himself Read More »
Tora-san 10 / Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro yumemakura (1972) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Kaoru Yachigusa
Tora-san comes back to his old home in Shibamata. His university professor Mr Okakura Read More »
The Revenge I: A Visit from Fate / Fukushû: Unmei no hômonsha (1997) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Shô Aikawa, Itsumi Ôsawa, Fumiyo Kohinata
Sho Aikawa plays a police detective whose dark personal history makes it impossible Read More »
Beyond Outrage / Autoreiji: Biyondo (2012) Takeshi Kitano, Toshiyuki Nishida, Tomokazu Miura
As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime Read More »
Goro the Assassin / Burai: Hitokiri Gorô (1968) Keiichi Ozawa, Tatsuya Fuji, Shôki Fukae, Chitose Kobayashi
To fulfill a prison mate’s dying wish, and to right what is wrong, Goro will kill again. Read More »
The Hardcore Criminal (1973) Shigehiro Ozawa
In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a coal mine Read More »