
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past. Read More »
Tag Archives: japanese
Yumeji (1991) Seijun Suzuki, Kenji Sawada, Tomoko Mariya, Masumi Miyazaki, Drama

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 1999 (1988) Shûsuke Kaneko, Eri Miyajima, Tomoko Ôtakara, Miyuki Nakano, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance

Summer vacation has emptied a Japanese boys’ school of all but three boys: the junior Norio & the seniors Kazuhiko & Naoto. Read More »
A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) Yasujirô Ozu, Takeshi Sakamoto, Chôko Iida, Kôji Mitsui, Drama

A troupe of actors comes to town, short on funds and bedeviled by bad weather, so they can’t put on shows. Read More »
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (1988) Akio Jissôji, Shintarô Katsu, Kyûsaku Shimada, Mieko Harada, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A demonic reincarnation of a Japanese general from the 10th century appears in the early 20th century Tokyo with a mission to destroy the blooming city. Read More »
Uta / Poem (1972) Akio Jissôji, Shin Kishida, Hiroko Sakurai, Saburô Shinoda, Drama

The young houseboy in Uta wakes up every night to patrol the house of a teacher with a flashlight. Read More »
Dopperugengâ / Doppelganger (2003) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kôji Yakusho, Hiromi Nagasaku, Yûsuke Santamaria, Comedy, Fantasy, Thriller

Hayasaki is an inventor working on an Artificial Body. It is not going well and he is stressed out and on the verge of being fired from the research division of his company. Read More »
The Lower Depths (1957) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa, Drama

In medieval Japan, aging Rokubei, his younger wife of four years Osugi and her uncle run a tenement complex at the bottom of a cliff Read More »
Rhapsody in August (1991) Akira Kurosawa, Sachiko Murase, Richard Gere, Hisashi Igawa, Drama

An elderly woman living in Nagasaki Japan takes care of her four grandchildren for their summer vacation. Read More »
Phantom of the Toilet (1995) Joji Matsuoka, Takayuki Inoue, Ai Maeda, Yuka Kono, Horror

After school children start to go missing and turn up dead, the students of the local elementary school come up with their own explanation. Read More »