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Tag Archives: japanese
Yawarakai seikatsu / It’s Only Talk (2005) Ryuichi Hiroki, Shinobu Terajima, Etsushi Toyokawa, Akira Emoto

Yuko is 35 years old, single, out of work, and on medication from her psychiatrist to combat her manic depression. Read More »
Zan / Killing (2018) Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Yû Aoi, Sôsuke Ikematsu

Set during the tumultuous mid-19th century Edo period of Japan Read More »
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 »