A young factory worker is picked up and courted by a clumsy youth with yakuza dreams, over one long day and a night. Read More »
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Gushonure hitozuma kyôshi – Seifuku de idaite / Despite All That (1999) Shinji Imaoka, Mitsuyo Suwa, Takeshi Itô, Atsuko Suzuki, Drama
Naoko, female art teacher suffering from bipolar disorder spends her time at home compulsively chopping cabbage. Read More »
Narayama bushikô / Ballad of Narayama (1958) Keisuke Kinoshita, Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yûko Mochizuki, Drama
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy Read More »
Yuke yuke nidome no shojo / Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (1969) Kôji Wakamatsu, Michio Akiyama, Hiroshi Imaizumi, Mimi Kozakura, Drama
After being raped in an unknown rooftop, nineteen year-old girl Poppo meets a mysterious boy, and both share their sexual traumas and fears, with fatal consequences. Read More »
Tsuma yo bara no yô ni / Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935) Mikio Naruse, Sachiko Chiba, Yuriko Hanabusa, Toshiko Itô, Drama
A young woman reaches maturity and yearns to know about her father. Her mother has poisoned her mind about the man who left her for another woman. Read More »
Kenjû zankoku monogatari / Cruel Gun Story (1964) Takumi Furukawa, Jô Shishido, Chieko Matsubara, Tamio Kawachi, Action, Crime, Thriller
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa’s sister, Rei, to a wheelchair. Read More »
Noisy Requiem / Tsuitô no zawameki (1988) Yoshihiko Matsui, Toshihiko Hino, Simon Kumai, Yukiko Murata, Drama
In the slums of Osaka, various marginalized misfits have their own interpretations of love. Read More »
Ageman / Tales of a Golden Geisha (1990) Jûzô Itami, Nobuko Miyamoto, Masahiko Tsugawa, Hiroshi Ohkôchi, Comedy, Drama
The film stars two of Itami’s regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as her unfaithful, sometimes partner. Read More »
The Pornographers: Introduction to Anthropology (1966) Shôhei Imamura, Shôichi Ozawa, Sumiko Sakamoto, Ganjirô Nakamura, Comedy, Drama
Mr. Ogata lives a complicated life: he is a pornographer making two skin flicks per day and trying to stay beneath the radar screen of the local mob Read More »
Youth of the Beast / Yajû no seishun (1963) Seijun Suzuki, Jô Shishido, Misako Watanabe, Tamio Kawachi, Action, Crime, Mystery
Joe Shishido plays a tough guy with a secret agenda. His violent behavior comes to the attention of a yakuza boss who immediately recruits him. Read More »