A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young girl who has a ritual of repeating “Tomorrow is my birthday” everyday. Read More »
Tag Archives: japanese
The Most Beautiful AKA Ichiban utsukushiku (1944) Akira Kurosawa, Takashi Shimura, Sôji Kiyokawa, Ichirô Sugai
During World War II, the management of a war industry of optical instruments for weapons requests Read More »
Muddy River AKA Doro no kawa (1981) Kôhei Oguri, Takahiro Tamura, Mariko Kaga, Nobutaka Asahara
Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends. Read More »
Silence Has No Wings AKA Tobenai chinmoku (1966) Kazuo Kuroki, Mariko Kaga, Hiroyuki Nagato, Shôichi Ozawa
Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido Read More »
Our Neighbor, Miss Yae (1934) Tonari no Yae-chan
Keitaro (Obinata Den) is a law student and Yaeko (Aizome Yumeko) is a high school girl. Read More »
Ditch AKA Dobu (1954) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Jûkichi Uno
Toku, a factory worker (Taiji Tonoyama) gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru (Nobuko Otowa), who then follows him home. Read More »
Love Letter AKA Koibumi (1985) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Mitsuko Baishô, Keiko Takahashi
A spontaneous and youthfully careless painter and teacher Sh?ichi lives an ordinary family life Read More »
Five Men of Edo (1951) Oedo go-nin Otoko
During the 17th Century bands of hatamoto, samurai vassals of the Tokugawa shogunate Read More »
Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction (1964) Kazuo Ikehiro, Raizô Ichikawa, Michiko Ai, Akira Amemiya
A fugitive christian “saint” (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. Read More »
Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing AKA Nemuri Kyoshiro 3: Engetsugiri (1964) Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Raizô Ichikawa, Kyooko Azuma, Ryônosuke Azuma
A decapitation at the hands of the shogun’s monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action Read More »