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Tag Archives: Japan
Youth / Seishun (1968) Kon Ichikawa

“Youth” is about a nationwide baseball tournament among high-schools organized by the newspaper Asashi Shimbun. Read More »
Tattoo Ari (1982) Banmei Takahashi, Ryûdô Uzaki, Keiko Takahashi, Misako Watanabe

An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman Read More »
Mosquito on the Tenth Floor (1983) Jukkai no mosukîto

Jukkai no Mosukito is the tragic story of a policeman who has never succeeded Read More »
Broken Heart / Dai shitsuren (1995) Kazuki Ohmori

Eight love stories starts and ends in an amusement park. Read More »
The Egoists / Keibetsu (2011) Ryuichi Hiroki, Anne Suzuki, Kengo Kôra, Sora Aoi

After losing money with gambling Kazu destroys a nightclub for a Yakuza to clear his debt. Read More »
The Woman of Rumour / Uwasa no onna (1954) Kenji Mizoguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tomoemon Otani, Yoshiko Kuga

Hatsuko Umabuchi is a widow who runs a prosperous geisha house in present-day Kyoto. Read More »
Ohyaku: The Female Demon / Yôen dokufu-den: Han’nya no Ohyaku (1968) Yoshihiro Ishikawa, Junko Miyazono, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Kunio Murai

A female acrobat and a thief plans to steal the gold from the mint. Read More »
Black Panther Bitch M / Kuroi Mehyô M (1974) Koretsugu Kurahara, Reiko Ike, Mikio Narita, Akiko Mori

A female master assassin is sent to take down a syndicate boss who is making a power play for the top. Read More »
Muhomatsu Returns Home / Muhômatsu kokyô ni kaeru (1973) Shohei Imamura, Fujiko Fujita, Fujio Fujita, Matsuyoshi Fujita

Three years after his first two documentaries on these soldiers who did not return Read More »