Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
A Chance to Die / Xiang si chen xianzai (2000) Yi-wen Chen, Miki Mizuno, Li-Wei Chang, Leon Dai
Burned by the desire to avenge her dead boyfriend Read More »
Gambler / Bakuchi uchi (1967) Shigehiro Ozawa, Kôji Tsuruta, Kyôsuke Machida, Tomisaburô Wakayama
Tsuruta is a respected tattoo artist working with comrades Machida and Yamashiro. Read More »
Ninja in the Dragon’s Den / Long zhi ren zhe (1982) Corey Yuen, Hiroyuki Sanada, Conan Lee, Jang-Lee Hwang
Two rival warriors, a Japanese and a Chinese, are forced to work together Read More »
Afternoon Breezes / Kazetachi no gogo (1980) Hitoshi Yazaki, Setsuko Aya, Naomi Ito, Hiroshi Sugita
Two young girls, Mitsu and Natsuko, share the same apartment. Read More »
Chutaro of Banba / Banba no Chûtarô (1955) Nobuo Nakagawa, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Isuzu Yamada, Sanae Mitsuoka
Based on the play ”Mabuta no Haha” by famed author Hasegawa Shin, this is the first major Read More »
The Yakuza Wives 2 / Gokudo no onna-tachi 2 (1987) Tooru Dobashi, Yukiyo Toake, Rino Katase, Hiroaki Murakami
Yuki, the wife of a leading member of the Domoto family, must assume her husband’s Read More »
The Sword of Doom / Dai-bosatsu tôge (1966) Kihachi Okamoto, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Yûzô Kayama
Ryunosuke is a sociopathic samurai without compassion or scruples. Read More »
Junk Head (2017) Takahide Hori
Mankind can no longer reproduce because of gene manipulation aimed at making life longer. Read More »
Sakuya: Slayer of Demons / Sakuya: yôkaiden (2000) Tomoo Haraguchi, Nozomi Andô, Kyûsaku Shimada, Keiko Matsuzaka
The eruption of Mt. Fuji in 1707 released hordes of demons from deep inside the earth. Read More »