
Fresh out of prison, a broken man reluctantly takes a job to kill three men, but changes his mind when some gangsters target the same men. Read More »
Tag Archives: japanese
9 Souls AKA Nain souruzu (2003) Toshiaki Toyoda, Yoshio Harada, Ryûhei Matsuda, Genta Dairaku

Nine convicts escape from prison; most are convicted murders. They commandeer a van from a strip club. Read More »
Happiness of Us Alone AKA Namonaku mazushiku utsukushiku (1961) Zenzô Matsuyama, Hideko Takamine, Keiju Kobayashi, Izumi Hara

Tragic story of a deaf-mute(Takamine) who marries another deaf-mute(Kobayashi) she at a school for the deaf. Read More »
Bitterness of Youth AKA Seishun no satetsu (1974) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Kaori Momoi, Fumi Dan

A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry. Read More »
Loft AKA Rofuto (2005) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Miki Nakatani, Etsushi Toyokawa, Hidetoshi Nishijima

Reiko, a prize-winning writer, moves to a quiet isolated house to finish up her new novel. Read More »
69 sixty nine (2004) Sang-il Lee, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Masanobu Andô, Yûta Kanai

A group of rebellious teenagers cause mischief and disorder in a 1969 Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan as a result of tensions from their school and a US military base. Read More »
The D-Slope Murder Case AKA D-Zaka no satsujin jiken (1998) Akio Jissôji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kyûsaku Shimada, Yumi Yoshiyuki

Detective Kogoro Akechi is faced with a peculiar murder case involving forgeries of classic pornographic artworks. Read More »
Snow Country AKA Yukiguni (1957) Shirô Toyoda, Ryô Ikebe, Keiko Kishi, Kaoru Yachigusa

It’s a man’s world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. Read More »
Godzilla AKA Gojira (1954) Ishirô Honda, Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada

When seventeen vessels blow-up and sink nearby Odo Island, Professor Kyohei Yamane, his daughter Emiko Yamane Read More »
The Blazing Valiant AKA Moeru yusha (1981) Tooru Dobashi, Hiroyuki Sanada, Hiroshi Katsuno, Kazue Itô

Jo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in Africa Read More »