In the post-war, the sixteen year-old teenager Eiko seeks out the geisha Miyoharu in the district of Gion Read More »
Tag Archives: japanese
Cruel Ghost Legend (1968) Kazuo Hase, Masumi Harukawa, Nobuo Kaneko, Saeda Kawaguchi
A Samurai kills a Blind Man who tells him to “Repay his debts.” Read More »
Hospitalité (2010) Kôji Fukada, Kenji Yamauchi, Kiki Sugino, Kanji Furutachi
In suburban Tokyo, the Kobayashis – Mikio, his young second wife Natsuki Read More »
Legacy of the 500,000 (1963) Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tsutomu Yamazaki
During the Second World War, Takeichi Matsuo had participated in hiding a huge cache of gold in the Phillippine mountains. Read More »
Crazed Fruit (1956) Kô Nakahira, Yûjirô Ishihara, Masahiko Tsugawa, Mie Kitahara
Bored rich kids. Natsuhisa, 20, constantly teases his brother Haruji, 16, about girls. Read More »
Unperishable Sword (1960) Yasushi Sasaki, Kôji Tsuruta, Hiroko Sakuramachi, Keiko Fujita
Chaos (2000) Hideo Nakata, Jun Kunimura, Ken Mitsuishi, Masato Hagiwara
A man gets involved in a kidnapping scheme with the wife of a wealthy businessman. Read More »
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969) Nagisa Ôshima, Tadanori Yokoo, Rie Yokoyama, Moichi Tanabe
Story of a bookstore thief named Birdey who is led through various adventures in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko. Read More »
The Sinners of Hell (1960) Nobuo Nakagawa, Shigeru Amachi, Utako Mitsuya, Yôichi Numata
A graduate-school student has a friend who is pure evil. Read More »
Disappear (2005) Hideo Jôjô, Mei Fujishiro, Kaede, Kazuaki Kubo
The high school students Asi, Kwangshu and Yinan have been friends since childhood Read More »