“BLOW THE NIGHT!” Let’s Spend the Night Together is a 1983 Japanese docu-drama shot on 16mm Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
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 »
A Tale of Happiness / Ureshi hazukashi monogatari (1988) Yôichi Higashi, Maiko Kawakami, Minori Terada, Chikako Hon’ami
Bored with their marriage, a middle-aged husband and wife each take on a lover half their age. Read More »
The Second Love (1983) Sekando rabu
Kazumi handles her second husband’s emotional conflicts with the wisdom of an adult. Read More »
I’m Dandy / Migimagari No Dandy (1989) Hiroyuki Nasu, Kobuhei Hayashiya, Miyuki Imori, Mariko Kaga
Ichijo, a middle-aged salary man, hassles to get his career back on track. Read More »