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Take Care, Red Riding Hood (1970) Shirô Moritani

Tokyo, February 9th, 1969. Kaoru is a high school graduate from a rich family. Read More »
Gentle 12 / Juninin no yasashii nihonjin (1991)

Shun Nakahara directs this comic take on Sidney Lumet’s 1957 classic Twelve Angry Men. Read More »
Shûen / The Flame of Devotion (1964) Koreyoshi Kurahara

The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji Read More »
Yasha / Demon (1985) Yasuo Furuhata, Ken Takakura

Retired yakuza gangster Shuji (Ken Takakura) moves back from Osaka to a remote coastal village Read More »
Maboroshi no uma / The Phantom Horse (1955) Kôji Shima

Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy’s family trains his horse to compete in the local derby. Read More »
Megane / Glasses (2007) Naoko Ogigami, Satomi Kobayashi

Taeko an stressed out career woman leaves her stressed out life in the city for an island vacation. Read More »
Kono ko wo nokoshite / Children of Nagasaki (1983)

In Nagasaki, Japan, on 09 August 1945, at 11:02 AM, 80.000 dead and thousand of persons wounded Read More »
Karakkaze yarô / Afraid to Die (1960) Yasuzô Masumura

A group of yakuza is hired to break a strike and an antihero of his former law partners faces Read More »
Shall We Dance? / Shall we dansu? (1996) Masayuki Suo

Shohei Sugiyama has attained all that he has wanted in life. But he is still depressed and unhappy. Read More »