A few years after the surrender of Japan in the Second World War. Read More »
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Big Man Japan (2007) Hitoshi Matsumoto, Riki Takeuchi
An eccentric man aged about 40 lives alone in a decrepit house in Tokyo. Read More »
The Lucky Adventurer Oda Nobunaga (1959) Toshikazu Kôno, Katsuo Nakamura, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Eitarô Shindô
Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) was a major daimyo during the Warring State period of Japanese history. Read More »
Symbol (2009) Hitoshi Matsumoto, David Quintero, Luis Accinelli
A man wakes up alone in a brightly illuminated white room with no windows or doors. Read More »
Gorath (1962) Ishirô Honda, Ryô Ikebe, Yumi Shirakawa, Akira Kubo
In 1980, a giant planetoid named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Read More »
Tokyo Sonata (2008) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi
An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company. Read More »
Industrial Spy (1968) Eiichi Kudô, Tatsuo Umemiya, Reiko Ônobuta, Kyôsuke Machida
A spy learns the top secrets of a company. Read More »
The Inugamis (2006) Kon Ichikawa, Kôji Ishizaka, Nanako Matsushima, Kikunosuke Onoe
A web of deceit, adultery and greed manifests in Kon Ichikawa’s remake of his own 1976 hit about a murder investigation that reveals years of hidden skeletons and a shocking family secret. Read More »
Narita: The Peasants of the Second Fortress (1971) Shinsuke Ogawa
It’s the mid 60s. Tokyo needs a new airport. There isn’t anywhere in Tokyo to put it, so the government decides on displacing some adjacent villages. Read More »
Pistol Opera (2001) Seijun Suzuki, Makiko Esumi, Sayoko Yamaguchi, Hanae Kan
Did you know that there is a ranking of the best assassins of Japan? In the spirit of 1967’s Branded To Kill, also by director Suzuki Seijun, comes Pistol Opera. Read More »