
The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university’s rugby team. Read More »
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Untama giru (1989) Go Takamine, Chikako Aoyama, Kaoru Kobayashi, John Sayles

Magical realist film about Okinawa. It’s about the occupation of Okinawa – both by the United States Read More »
Noble Lady Bound Vase AKA Kifujin shibari tsubo (1977) Masaru Konuma, Naomi Tani, Hitoshi Takagi, Tokuko Watanabe

Yoshitarô, a wealthy but ignorant landowner buys, who lives in the modern city. Read More »
Antarctica AKA Nankyoku monogatari (1983) Koreyoshi Kurahara, Ken Takakura, Tsunehiko Watase, Eiji Okada

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica. Read More »
Boys on the Run AKA Bôizu on za ran (2010) Daisuke Miura, Kazunobu Mineta, Mei Kurokawa, Ryûhei Matsuda

Toshiyuki Tanishi (Mr Tanishi) is a 29-year-old chronic masturbator and toy vending machine salesman – he is socially awkward and down on his luck. Read More »
Distance (2001) Hirokazu Koreeda, Arata Iura, Yûsuke Iseya, Susumu Terajima

Members of a cult, modeled on Aum Shinrikyo, sabotage a city’s water supply Read More »
After the Storm AKA Umi yori mo mada fukaku (2016) Hirokazu Kore-eda, Hiroshi Abe, Yôko Maki, Satomi Kobayashi

Dwelling on his past glory as a prize-winning author, Ryota (Hiroshi Abe) wastes the money he makes as a private detective on gambling and can barely pay child support. Read More »
Boiling Point AKA 3-4 x jûgatsu (1990) Takeshi Kitano, Yûrei Yanagi, Yuriko Ishida

Two members of a Japanese junior baseball team get mixed up with the local yakuza. Read More »
License to Live AKA Ningen gôkaku (1998) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Shun Sugata, Lily

Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Read More »
Scrap Heaven (2005) Sang-il Lee, Ryô Kase, Joe Odagiri, Chiaki Kuriyama

A cop, a sanitation worker and a pharmacist intersect on a late bus ride that’s hijacked by a suicidal political flunky. Read More »