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Tag Archives: japanese
Hula Girls / Hura gâru (2006) Sang-il Lee, Yasuko Matsuyuki

Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home’s declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction. Read More »
Millenium Traveller / Sennen tabito (1999) Jinsei Tsuji

Knowing that he has only a month to live, a pianist goes back to his beloved ocean. Read More »
Magokoro / Sincerity (1939) Mikio Naruse, Minoru Takada

Two young girls, Nobiko and Tomiko, go to the same school. Read More »
Outlaw: Rub-out! (1969) Keiichi Ozawa, Eiji Gô, Kenji Imai

New force joins the creators of the “Outlaw” series in this final installment. Read More »
A Slope in the Sun / Hi no ataru sakamichi (1958)

A college aged woman arrives in Tokyo to study while finding work at the wealthy Tashiro family home Read More »
The Beast Shall Die / Yajû shisubeshi (1959) Eizô Sugawa

A promising post-graduate literature student (Nakadai) is transformed into a psychotic killer Read More »
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 »