A quasi-docu-drama pertaining to the monumental process to bring a performance troupe to a small Japanese village to perform for one night. Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
Whistling in Kotan (1959) Mikio Naruse, Ken Yamauchi, Yoshiko Kôda, Masayuki Mori
In the outskirts of a city in Hokkaido, an indigenous Ainu family faces discrimination Read More »
Yakuza Graveyard AKA Yakuza no hakaba: Kuchinashi no hana (1976) Kinji Fukasaku, Tetsuya Watari, Meiko Kaji, Tatsuo Umemiya
When a cop is transferred to a new precinct it is obvious that the area’s yakuza mob Read More »
Lord of Steel Heart (1961) Kôkichi Uchide, Utaemon Ichikawa, Shingo Yamashiro, Tomisaburô Wakayama
A Tokugawa Daimyo rebels against an his lord after the battle of Sekigahara. Read More »
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 8 – Forbidden Love (1971) Kiyoshi Saeki, Ken Takakura, Ryô Ikebe, Kôji Tsuruta
The eighth chapter of the “Showa Zankyoden” series. A story of lone wolf struggling with human compassion and duty. Read More »
A Paucity of Flying Dreams (1990) Eizô Sugawa, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Eri Ishida, Mariko Kaga
A man in hospital has a weird and sexy conversation with a woman in the next bed, whom he cannot see. Read More »
Ikimono no kiroku / I Live in Fear (1955) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is so frightened and obsessed with the idea of nuclear Read More »
Nogiku no gotoki kimi nariki / She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955) Keisuke Kinoshita, Noriko Arita, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura
An old man, being rowed along a river, sees a field of daisies and thinks back to when he was fifteen. Read More »
Sanjuro (1962) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi
A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle Read More »
Memories of Matsuko (2006) Tetsuya Nakashima, Miki Nakatani, Eita Nagayama, Yûsuke Iseya
When Matsuko is murdered, her nephew, Sho, gets to progressively unveil the many details of her mysterious past Read More »