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Alive (2002) Ryûhei Kitamura, Hideo Sakaki, Ryô, Koyuki

Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. Read More »
The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch AKA Hebi musume to hakuhatsuma (1968) Noriaki Yuasa, Yûko Hamada, Sachiko Meguro, Yachie Matsui

Extremely fun Daiei adaptation of two shojo horror manga into a single, crazily FX-laden story about two rival Read More »
The Lady Vampire AKA Onna kyûketsuki (1959) Nobuo Nakagawa, Shigeru Amachi, Takashi Wada, Junko Ikeuchi

A woman who’s been missing for twenty years suddenly turns up alive, and looking not a day older than when she vanished. Read More »
A Hole of My Own Making AKA Jibun no ana no nakade (1955) Tomu Uchida, Rentarô Mikuni, Yumeji Tsukioka, Mie Kitahara

Amidst endless construction and aircraft noise, a family whose father died in the war slowly disintegrates Read More »
The Samurai I Loved AKA Semishigure (2005) Mitsuo Kurotsuchi, Somegorô Ichikawa, Yoshino Kimura, Kôji Imada

A young swordsman is forced into a tough situation. He must resolve a potential power struggle that involves his adolescent crush Fuku. Read More »
Judo Saga AKA Sugata Sanshirô (1943) Akira Kurosawa, Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Yukiko Todoroki

Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, comes to the city to apprentice at a jujitsu school. Read More »
The Heart of Hiroshima / Ai to shi no kiroku (1966)

One morning, Kazue (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is about to knocked over by a motorbike in front of the music instrument shop Read More »
Late Bloomer AKA Osoi hito (2004) Gô Shibata, Ariko Arita, Toshihisa Fukunaga, Naozô Hotta

A wheelchair bound man goes on a killing spree to ease his hurt when a local college coed rebuffs his amorous advances. Read More »
A Woman’s Life AKA Onna no rekishi (1963) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Akira Takarada, Tsutomu Yamazaki

Nobuko (Hideko Takamine) is a gentle Japanese woman who endures several ordeals during her adult life in this somber, sentimental drama. Read More »