A female plays a race car driver lends her services to the Japanese Secret Service. Read More »
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Sandakan 8 AKA Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo (1974) Kei Kumai, Komaki Kurihara, Yôko Takahashi, Kinuyo Tanaka
A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution Read More »
Pastoral: To Die in the Country AKA Den-en ni shisu (1974) Shûji Terayama, Kaoru Yachigusa, Keiko Niitaka, Masumi Harukawa
A young boys’ coming of age tale set in a strange Read More »
Bad Boys AKA Furyo shonen (1961) Susumu Hani, Yukio Yamada, Hirokazu Yoshitake, Koichiro Yamazaki
Directed in documentary style about a number of delinquent boys in a reformatory Read More »
The Eagle and the Hawk AKA Washi to taka (1957) Umetsugu Inoue, Yûjirô Ishihara, Rentarô Mikuni, Ruriko Asaoka
In this murder mystery musical, trouble comes in pairs on a cargo ship Read More »
Shinjuku, Messy District: I’ll Be There AKA Shinjuku midaregai: Ikumade matte (1977) Chûsei Sone, Miyako Yamaguchi, Moeko Ezawa, Jun Aki
Chûsei Sone’s self-reflective take on Shinjuku Bohemian life Read More »
The City of Lost Souls AKA Hyôryû-gai (2000) Takashi Miike, Teah, Michelle Reis, Kôji Kikkawa
Japanese-Brazilian Mario and Chinese hairdresser Kei are lovers. Read More »
A Japanese Tragedy AKA Nihon no higeki (1953) Keisuke Kinoshita, Yûko Mochizuki, Yôko Katsuragi, Masami Taura
Alternating in time, between the end of World War II and 1953, Haruko, a widow Read More »
Young Boss Takeshi AKA Waka oyabun (1965) Kazuo Ikehiro, Raizô Ichikawa, Yukiji Asaoka, Shiho Fujimura
This is the story of Takeshi Nanjo, the young boss of Nanjyo family in the meiji-era of Japan. Read More »
Dodes’ka-den AKA Dodesukaden (1970) Akira Kurosawa, Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura
An anthology of overlapping vignettes exploring the lives of a variety of characters who happen to live Read More »