Dr. Akagi, a rural physician in Japan during WWII, wages a one-man crusade against hepetitis Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
Band of Assassins AKA Shinsengumi (1969) Tadashi Sawashima, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Kin’ya Kitaôji
Feudal Japan. Kamo Serizawa and Isami Kondo turn a collection of student fencers into a band of assassins Read More »
A Woman’s Testament / Jokyo (1960) Kon Ichikawa, Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Jirô Tamiya
Three stories about modern women. The first works in a nightclub and plans to marry the boss. Read More »
Utsukushisa to kanashimi to / With Beauty And Sorrow (1965) Masahiro Shinoda, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Kaga, Sô Yamamura
Long before the events of the movie Ôki, who was approaching middle age, had a relation to 16-year-old Otoko. Read More »
Suspicion (1982) Yoshitarô Nomura, Kaori Momoi, Shima Iwashita, Akira Emoto
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Read More »
Joshû sasori: Dai-41 zakkyo-bô / Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972) Shun’ya Itô, Meiko Kaji, Fumio Watanabe, Yukie Kagawa
After spending a year in solitary confinement, Matsu escapes from prison with six more convicts Read More »
Blackmail Is My Life AKA Kyôkatsu koso waga jinsei (1968) Kinji Fukasaku, Hiroki Matsukata, Tomomi Satô, Shinjirô Ehara
Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki (Horoki Matsukata) quickly rises Read More »
Juhyô no yoromeki / Affair in the Snow (1968) Yoshishige Yoshida, Mariko Okada, Isao Kimura, Yukio Ninagawa
In an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself Read More »
Yorokobi mo kanashimi mo ikutoshitsuki / Times of Joy and Sorrow (1957) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideko Takamine, Keiji Sada, Takahiro Tamura
Covering the years from 1932 through 1957, this is the story of the trials and tribulations of lighthouse keeper Keiji Sada and his wife Hideko Takamine. Read More »
The Black Book / Kuroi gashû: Aru sarariman no shôgen (1960) Hiromichi Horikawa, Keiju Kobayashi, Chisako Hara, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Crime, Drama
A forty-year-old office worker, Ishino get good income, nice family and a love affair with girl co-worker. Read More »