
Nami(played by Meiko Kaji) returns to Tokyo to find the man who killed her father 13 years ago. Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
Mishima: The Last Debate / Mishima Yukio vs Tôdai zenkyôtô: 50 nenme no shinjitsu (2020) Keisuke Toyoshima, Yukio Mishima, Osamu Kimura, Masahiko Akuta

One of Japan’s most important 20th century literary figures, nominated for the Nobel Prize Read More »
Nekomimi (1994) Jun Kurosawa

Experimental film in which three girls and one boy lead playful lives. Read More »
I Will Buy You / Anata kaimasu (1956) Masaki Kobayashi, Keiji Sada, Keiko Kishi, Minoru Ôki

Kobayashi’s pitiless take on Japan’s professional baseball industry is unlike any other sports film ever made. Read More »
Tom’s Midnight Garden (1999) Willard Carroll, Nigel Le Vaillant, Marlene Sidaway, Serena Gordon

Young Tom Long is forced to stay with his kindly Aunt and Uncle while his brother recovers from a bout of the measles. Read More »
The Last Ronin / Saigo no Chûshingura (2010) Shigemichi Sugita, Kôji Yakusho, Kôichi Satô, Nanami Sakuraba

16 years after the fateful “revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin” involving samurais from the Ako Read More »
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021) Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Kotone Furukawa, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Katsuki Mori

An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding Read More »
Delinquent Girl Boss: Ballad of Yokohama Hoods / Zubeko banchô: Hamagure kazoe uta (1971) Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, Reiko Ôshida, Yukie Gagawa, Shuushibo

The local yakuza gangs dominating the port of Yokohama do not take well the invasion of their territory Read More »
Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters / Zubekô banchô: Tôkyô nagaremono (1970) Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, Kayako Sono, Reiko Ôshida

Rika, an ex reform school student, joins a clan of street vendors: the Yakuza intervention soon breaks their peaceful business. Read More »
Fine with Occasional Murders / Hare tokidoki satsujin (1984) Kazuyuki Izutsu, Noriko Watanabe, Yôsuke Tagawa, Masataka Matsutôya

Kanako returns from the USA to a troubled mother who witnessed a man Read More »