Tag Archives: japanese

Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. Read More »

A timber merchant and haulage firm in late 19th century Tokyo is in trouble. Read More »

This movie takes a look at a Westernized suburban area in Japan in the late ’50s. Read More »

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form. Read More »

In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Read More »

The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner’s son (Nakadai) Read More »

Tamiko is a divorced mother with a seriously ill son, struggling to save him and give both a sense of their existence. Read More »

Edmund Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. Read More »

Based on the eponymous manga for girls by cartoonist Kiriko Nananan, the pic follows the ups Read More »

Yukio is living a charmed life: he is a respected young doctor with a successful practice and a beautiful wife. Read More »