Soldiers Hayatenosuke Sasa and Kagami Yaheiji leave their besieged castle on a secret mission into the enemy camp. Read More »
Tag Archives: japanese
A Killers Key (1967) Kazuo Mori, Raizô Ichikawa, Ichirô Nakatani, Kô Nishimura
A master of Japanese dance, Nitta has another face, a killer with unearthly skill. Read More »
Battle in the Sea of Japan (1969) Seiji Maruyama, Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûzô Kayama
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails Read More »
Utamaro’s World (1977) Akio Jissôji, Shin Kishida
Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. Read More »
No Blood Relation (1932) Mikio Naruse, Yoshiko Okada, Shin’yô Nara, Yukiko Tsukuba
An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim – with the help of her gangster brother – the daughter she abandoned years before. Read More »
Writhing Tongue (1980) Yoshitarô Nomura, Tsunehiko Watase
A five-year-old girl gets a tiny scratch on her finger while playing with mud in a marsh. Read More »
Hanadama (2014) Hisayasu Satô, Tomori Abe, Shun Asada, Kei Fujiwara
A film by Hisayasu Satô. Transfer student Mizuki is bullied mercilessly by classmate Aya and others. Read More »
Drifting into Chaos (1989) Sachi Hamano, Kyoko Sawamura, Natsuki Yamamoto, Kan’ichi Hiraga
Film loosely follows plot of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, with rape in addition to murders. Read More »
Crazy Thunder Road (1980) Gakuryû Ishii, Tatsuo Yamada, Masamitsu Ohike, Kôji Nanjô
When the leader of the once-notorious biker gang of Tokyo falls in love with a barmaid and quickly loses his rebellious ideals, the rest of the gang feels betrayed. Read More »
Morning Breeze in Edo (1960) Hideaki Onishi, Chiezô Kataoka
The sole survivor of a shipwreck searches for missing members of a family. Read More »