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The Lady in a Black Dress / Kuroi doresu no onna (1987) Yôichi Sai, Tomoyo Harada, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Hideo Murota

A woman arrives as an acquaintance of a sister in law for a day under the bar master Tamura who had guided Yakuza’s escaping. Read More »
Black River / Kuroi kawa (1957) Masaki Kobayashi, Fumio Watanabe, Tatsuya Nakadai, Ineko Arima

Perhaps Kobayashi’s most sordid film, Black River is an exposé of the rampant corruption on Read More »
Hollywood Hong-Kong / Heung Gong you ge He Li Huo (2001) Fruit Chan, Xun Zhou, Glen Chin, You-Nam Wong

A prostitute named Tong Tong enters the life of a man who runs a barbecue pork restaurant Read More »
Eagle of the Pacific / Taiheiyô no washi (1953) Ishirô Honda, Denjirô Ôkôchi, Hiroshi Nihon’yanagi, Masao Shimizu

Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician Read More »
Village of Doom / Ushimitsu no mura (1983) Noboru Tanaka, Masato Furuoya, Misako Tanaka, Kumiko Ohba

An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis Read More »
A Tender Place / Yawaraka na hou (2001) Shunichi Nagasaki, Yûki Amami, Shunsuke Matsuoka, Tomokazu Miura

The story of a person who is looking for her own daughter. Read More »
Temptation of the Mask / Kamen no yûwaku (1987) Hisayasu Satô, Kazuhiro Sano, Kiyoshi Usuda, Naomi Hagio

Sano plays an adopted orphan who is in love with his stepmother and repeatedly raped by his new father. Read More »
Love Hotel / Rabu hoteru (1985) Shinji Sômai, Noriko Hayami, Minori Terada, Kiriko Shimizu

Muraki is in debt after a business failure. When he is unable to pay his debtors Read More »
Stranger (1991) Shunichi Nagasaki, Yûko Natori, Kentarô Shimizu, Takashi Naitô

After serving time for a case of bank fraud, Kiriko now lives a lone quiet life working as a taxi driver on night shifts. Read More »