Kosuke visits a photo studio to take photo for his passport. Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
Bastoni: The Stick Handlers (2002) Kazuhiko Nakamura, Shunsuke Matsuoka, Tomorô Taguchi, Hideomi Nakazato
Husband and wife Yamaguchi and Natsuki are young, attractive stars in Japanese adult films. Read More »
Rape Shot Momoes Lips / Rape shot: Momoe no kuchibiru (1979) Katsuhiko Fujii, Minako Mizushima, Yûko Asuka, Noriaki Abe
Toru, a down and out tabloid reporter is looking for his next “big” story. Read More »
Black Cat / Yabu no naka no kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindô, Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satô
A woman and her daughter-in-law are raped and murdered by samurais during the time of civil war. Read More »
Sympathy for the Underdog / Bakuto gaijin butai (1971) Kinji Fukasaku, Kôji Tsuruta, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Tsunehiko Watase
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. Read More »
Winds of Change / Metamorphoses (1978) Takashi, Peter Ustinov
Several animated stories from “Metamorphoses”, Roman poet Ovid’s narrative of legends, are presented. Read More »
Tales of the Unusual / Yonimo kimyô na monogatari – Eiga no tokubetsu hen (2000) Mamoru Hoshi, Masayuki Ochiai, Hisao Ogura, Kazuyuki Aijima, Izumi Inamori, Renji Ishibashi
A four-part anthology in the spirit of The Twilight Zone, this film starts Read More »
Sayônara (2015) Kôji Fukada, Mari Yamamoto, Irène Jacob, Nijirô Murakami
In the not distant future Japan has again experienced a nuclear incident and is gradually becoming uninhabitable. Read More »
Inferno of Torture / Tokugawa irezumi-shi: Seme jigoku (1969) Teruo Ishii, Teruo Yoshida, Masumi Tachibana, Asao Koike
High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their “production”. Read More »
29th Street (1991) George Gallo, Anthony LaPaglia, Danny Aiello, Lainie Kazan
Frank Pesce is the luckiest man alive in spite of his bad luck. Based on a true story, a man growing up in a tough New York Read More »