It’s brother against brother and father against son in this all-star yakuza epic. Read More »
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Preparation for the Festival AKA Matsuri no junbi (1975) Kazuo Kuroki, Jun Etô, Haruko Mabuchi, Hajime Hana
A young Japanese man comes to the realization that he must leave Read More »
Evil Spirits of Japan AKA Nippon no akuryo (1970) Kazuo Kuroki, Yôsuke Enomoto, Tatsumi Hijikata, Eiko Horii
Murase is a bodyguard in a yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. Read More »
Diary of a Mad Old Man AKA Fûten Rôjin nikki (1962) Keigo Kimura, Sô Yamamura, Ayako Wakao, Keizô Kawasaki
Diary of a Mad Old Man is the journal of Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke. Read More »
The Target of Roses AKA Bara no hyôteki (1972) Kiyoshi Nishimura, Yûzô Kayama, Zhen Zhen, Eiji Okada
A gunslinger is hired to kill a news photographer. The young ward of the shot photographer Read More »
Shadow of Deception AKA Naikai no wa (1971) Kôichi Saitô, Shima Iwashita, Akira Nakao, Rentarô Mikuni
Five years ago Minako spent a night with Sozo, the younger brother of her ex-husband. Read More »
The Seburi Story AKA Seburi monogatari (1985) Sadao Nakajima, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Yumiko Fujita, Michiko Kohno
The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject Read More »
Tora-san 44 AKA Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro no kokuhaku (1991) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Hideko Yoshida
When Izumi can’t stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. Read More »
Tora-san 43 AKA Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro no kyuujitsu (1990) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Mari Natsuki
Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad Read More »
Here Because of You AKA Kimitachi ga ite boku ga ita (1964) Ryuichi Takamori, Ushio Akashi, Shigeko Arai, Shin’ichi Chiba
An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors Read More »
Labyrinth Romanesque AKA Hanazono no meikyu (1988) Shun’ya Itô, Yôko Shimada, Yûya Uchida, Yûki Kudô
Based on Edogawa Ranpo Award winner “Hanazono no Meikyu” by Yoko Yamazaki. Read More »
Harakiri AKA Seppuku (1962) Masaki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Ishihama, Shima Iwashita
Following the collapse of his clan, an unemployed samurai (Tatsuya Nakadai) Read More »
The New Voyage AKA Gakko III (1998) Yôji Yamada, Shinobu Ôtake, Yûki Kuroda, Nenji Kobayashi
A widow who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins Read More »
Forget Love for Now AKA Koi mo wasurete (1937) Hiroshi Shimizu, Michiko Kuwano, Shûji Sano, Jun Yokoyama
The lives of unhappy children and women, particularly mothers Read More »
Minamata: The Victims and Their World AKA Minamata Kanja-san to sono sekai (1971) Noriaki Tsuchimoto
The film focuses on residents who suffered Minamata disease in the nervous system Read More »