Tag Archives: japanese

An assurance company employee threatens suicide after a massive layoff is announced by the management. Read More »

Three aspiring assassins seek their education from Chicago returnees. Read More »

In a small backwater in Northern Japan, self-assured Shigeru and shy Shinji are best friends since childhood. Read More »

The trials, tribulations, and joys of raising a child. The film follows the everyday events of a family with one boy Read More »

Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a ranch operator. Read More »

Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living. Read More »

A young girl named Mitsuki receives a ticket for a bus tour from his uncle. Read More »

Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past. Read More »

Painter and poet Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934) gets involved with a beautiful widow, becoming a rival of her dead husband’s ghost and the jealous lover who murdered him. Read More »

Summer vacation has emptied a Japanese boys’ school of all but three boys: the junior Norio & the seniors Kazuhiko & Naoto. Read More »