Set during the tumultuous mid-19th century Edo period of Japan Read More »
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Nobi / Fires on the Plain (2014) Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Lily Franky, Tatsuya Nakamura
A Japanese soldier endures illness, starvation and brutality in the Philippines at the tail end of WW2. Read More »
Festival of Swordsmen (1961) Kengo tengu matsuri
During the middle of the Kanei Period (1624-1644) Japan was in the early stages of its most peaceful era. Read More »
Shinsengumi Chronicles (1963) Kenji Misumi
As change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of respect for their leader and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. Read More »
Tôkyô no onna / Woman of Tokyo (1933) Yasujirô Ozu, Yoshiko Okada, Ureo Egawa, Kinuyo Tanaka
Ryoichi and Chikako are brother and sister. They live together. Read More »
O-Roshiya-koku suimu-tan / The Dream of Russia (1992) Jun’ya Satô, Ken Ogata, Oleg Yankovskiy, Takuzô Kawatani
1782. A Japanese ship named Shinsho-maru is blown off course and severely battered during a wild storm Read More »
The Orphan Gambler (1971) Shigehiro Ozawa, Sumiko Fuji, Kôji Tsuruta, Gannosuke Ashiya
Taking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling skills Read More »
Koma (2009) Naomi Kawase
A Japanese-Korean man (Kitamura Kizuki) travels to a village in Nara to fulfill his late grandfather’s final wish. Read More »
Conflagration (1958) Kon Ichikawa, Raizô Ichikawa, Ganjirô Nakamura, Tatsuya Nakadai
Goichi Mizoguchi, an aspiring Buddhist monk who became involved in the temple that was owned by his father Read More »
A Bloody Spear on Mount Fuji (1955) Tomu Uchida, Chiezo Kataoka, Ryûnosuke Tsukigata, Chizuru Kitagawa
A samurai travels to Edo with his two servants. On their way, they meet many people and encounter great injustice. Read More »