Tag Archives: japanese

The main character is a man from the WW2 generation who has lost his dreams in post-war Japan.
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Conflicts between Hirono’s family and Yamamori’s family (and their allies) are made more tense by the ambitious underlings and the police’s efforts to impose a crackdown on the gangs. Read More »

A young criminal joins a yakuza family to kill the gangsters who beat him up Read More »

The film takes place during the rule of the eighth shogun Yoshimune, placing the film’s setting somewhere between 1716 and 1745 Read More »

Kurando is a retired samurai. Granted a last-second reprieve from the obligation to commit Harakiri Read More »

Yuriko works at home all day as a tape transcriber, while her husband, Takashi, works as a school teacher. Read More »

Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi struggles to imbue her students with a positive view of the world and their place in it Read More »

Unemployed Kihachi and his two sons struggle to make ends meet. But that doesn’t keep Kihachi from wooing single mother Otaka. Read More »

The film tells of two friends from a university (played by Ichirô Yûki and Tatsuo Saitô) who vie for the attention of the same girl (Junko Matsui) during a skiing trip. Read More »

Newcomer Shizuka Ishibashi throws herself into the role of Mika, a nurse by day, a ‘girlie bar’ hostess by night, subject to feelings of anxiety and isolation Read More »