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Tag Archives: japanese
Munekata kyôdai / The Munekata Sisters (1950) Yasujirô Ozu, Kinuyo Tanaka, Hideko Takamine, Ken Uehara

Setsuko is unhappily to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. Read More »
Suzaki Paradise Red Light (1956) Yûzô Kawashima

A couple stand indecisively on a bridge in Asakusa. Tsutae and Yoshiji have lost confidence Read More »
The Crowded Train / Manin densha (1957) Kon Ichikawa

Tamio Moroi graduates from a prestigious university and obtains a job at the Camel Brewery in a distant town. Read More »
Kôrei / Seance (2000) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kôji Yakusho

A psychic housewife and her husband become burdened with a kidnapped girl who escaped her assailant. Read More »
Three Outlaw Samurai / Sanbiki no samurai (1964) Hideo Gosha

When poor peasants kidnap a magistrate’s daughter to coerce Read More »
Onimasa / Kiryûin Hanako no shôgai (1982) Hideo Gosha

A yakuza melodrama, covering decades in the lives of Boss Onimasa Read More »
Black Lizard / Kuro tokage (1968) Kinji Fukasaku

Japanese sixties comedy featuring a cunning female jewel thief named Black Lizard who tries to kidnap Sanaye Read More »
Points and Lines (1958) Tsuneo Kobayashi, Hiroshi Minami

Based on Matsumoto Seicho’s classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group Read More »
Kikansha sensei / Locomotive Teacher (2004) Ryuichi Hiroki

A young man named Yoshioka Seigo arrives at the only elementary school on a small island Read More »