Tag Archives: japanese

Adopted from a prize-winning school essay on the subject of ‘My Mother,’ upon being widowed a mother with Read More »

It’s the tale of Iba Choyu and Iba Choichi and their adopted brother Tomoyuki who grow up to be yakuza on the Okinawa Read More »

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. Read More »

Chikuzan Takahashi, in his late sixties at the time of filming, is a blind musician who has spent most of his life on the roads of Northern Japan Read More »

A single mother works tirelessly as a Ginza bar hostess to ensure a better life for her young son until–her long-lost husband returns. Read More »

A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku’s iconoclastic New Wave. Read More »

An all-star cast from Daiei Film Company has made “the ultimate Jirocho movie” about the legendary yakuza Shimizu no Jirocho, the biggest Boss in the Tokaido area. Read More »

A debt collector visits a gambling den in search of a gambler – the gambler’s wife and daughter are sick Read More »

Three new students at a super-strict girl’s school must face off with a repressive school administration, the sadistic Read More »

Sugawara plays Nozaki, a laborer who swears allegiance to a sympathetic crime boss Read More »