Tag Archives: japanese

A young woman undergoes psychiatric treatment after she no longer hears music and develops sexual hang-ups. Read More »

Misumi has a criminal record dating back many years and is now under the spotlight again. Read More »

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

A bearded kendo champion has difficulties in life because of his conservative ways and his unusual beard. Read More »

A story of a college student (Tatsuo Saitô) and his schoolmates trying to pass the exams by cheating. Read More »

In Lucille Carra’s all too short, invigorating new film, “The Inland Sea,” as in the Donald Richie travel memoir on which it is based Read More »

A portrait of the relationship between Minako, a girl in junior high deserted by her mother when she was young Read More »

Every Monday at 6 pm a young woman is murdered in the subway. The psychiatrist Setsuko Suma is called in to assist the police. Read More »

The head of an acclaimed Noh (traditional, stylised Japanese drama form) troupe has a son whom he wants to inherit the troupe/ school. Read More »

The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazatos unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Read More »