Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school. Read More »
Tag Archives: japanese
Taking the Castle (1965) Shirotori
When two samurai warriors take on a job to take over the castle fort of an invading clan Read More »
The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan (1970)
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo’s red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws. Read More »
Graveyard of Honor (1975) Jingi no hakaba
A look at the life of renegade yakuza, Rikio Ishikawa, particularly the years from 1946 to 1950 when his violent Read More »
Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi (1963)
In June of the first year of the Genji era, the Shinsengumi launched a raid on the Ikedaya Inn, where anti-shogunate activists had gathered. Read More »
Daydream (1981) Hakujitsumu – Tetsuji Takechi
A structureless succession of bizarre and erotic set-pieces revolving around a series of fantasies in a dentist’s waiting room. Read More »
Quick Draw Joe (1961) Hayauchi yarô
Joe of Aces is a bounty hunter in the wide open spaces of Northern Japan. Read More »
Sei chitai: Sex zone (1968) Masao Adachi
Inspired by the true story of a Geisha murdered in a city famous for its baths, Adachi forged here his favorite style Read More »
Mutant Girls Squad (2010) Noboru Iguchi
On her sixteenth birthday, Rin (Yumi Sugimoto), a bullied, timid schoolgirl witnesses her parents killed by fearful, anti-mutant humans. Read More »
The Claws of the Divine Beast (1980)
Based on a mystery by Taiwanese-Japanese author Chin Shun-shin. After two elderly men in Yokohama quarrel Read More »