The local yakuza gangs dominating the port of Yokohama do not take well the invasion of their territory Read More »
Tag Archives: Japan
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 »
Trail of Blood / Mushukunin Mikogami no Jôkichi: Kiba wa hikisaita (1972) Kazuo Ikehiro, Yoshio Harada, Atsuo Nakamura, Kayo Matsuo
Can a sinful man change and find peace? It’s unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Read More »
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 (1953) Taiheiyô no washi
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 »