
After a young girl’s mother dies, she is cared for by Glico, a brassy hooker, who gives the girl the name “Ageha” (Butterfly). Read More »
Tag Archives: japanese
Scent of a Spell (1985) Toshiharu Ikeda, Mari Amachi, Johnny Ohkura, Yuki Kazamatsuri

A young man returns home from the bar only to find a woman who was about to kill herself. Read More »
Crazed Beast (1976) Sadao Nakajima, Tsunehiko Watase, Jun Hoshino, Takuzô Kawatani

Test driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. Read More »
Death by Hanging (1968) Nagisa Ôshima, Kei Satô, Fumio Watanabe, Toshirô Ishidô

This sad tale, based on a true story of a Japanese-born Korean student who raped and killed two girls in 1958 Read More »
An Outlaw (1964) Teruo Ishii, Ken Takakura, Tetsurô Tanba, Naoki Sugiura

A killer who only hits people who deserve it is tricked into killing an innocent man. Read More »
Passing fancy (1933) Yasujirô Ozu, Takeshi Sakamoto, Nobuko Fushimi, Den Ohinata

After the death of his wife, a man struggles to raise his son in nearly overwhelming poverty. Read More »
A Wife Confesses (1961) Tsuma wa kokuhaku suru

Ayako is charged with murdering her much older academic husband while climbing a mountain. Read More »
The Music (1972) Yasuzô Masumura, Noriko Kurosawa, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Chôei Takahashi

A young woman undergoes psychiatric treatment after she no longer hears music and develops sexual hang-ups. Read More »
The Third Murder (2017) Hirokazu Koreeda, Masaharu Fukuyama, Kôji Yakusho, Shinnosuke Mitsushima

Misumi has a criminal record dating back many years and is now under the spotlight again. Read More »
Husband and Wife (1953) Mikio Naruse, Ken Uehara, Yôko Sugi, Rentarô Mikuni

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband’s co-worker, a widower. Read More »