
Dead End Run is an hour length collection of three short films by Japanese visual genius Ishii Sogo. Read More »
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Nihon no fûikusaîchi / The Fixer (1979) Yasuo Furuhata, Shin Saburi, Masakazu Tamura, Kyôko Enami, Crime

A fixer controls political events from behind the scenes – the portrait of a political fixer and his machinations. Read More »
Yoru no nagare / Evening Stream (1960) Yûzô Kawashima, Mikio Naruse, Yôko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Akira Takarada, Drama

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. Read More »
Anzukko / Little Peach (1958) Mikio Naruse, Sô Yamamura, Kyôko Kagawa, Isao Kimura, Drama

Kyoko, the daughter of a successful novelist, marries an aspiring writer. Read More »
Bô no kanashimi / Like a Rolling Stone (1994) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Eiji Okuda, Eiko Nagashima, Reiko Takashima, Crime, Drama

Tanaka is a yakuza who collects ‘protection money’ from establishments. He has just been released from jail, where he had spent eight years, and finds out that his boss wants to get rid of him. Read More »
Saraba Rabauru / Farewell Rabaul (1954) Ishirô Honda, Ryô Ikebe, Mariko Okada, Rentarô Mikuni, War, Romance

This is a film about a Naval Air Corps Director who hates the war. Director Honda uses this film to ask the question “What is war?”, showing the human bonds between Japan and America Read More »
Ikari no machi / The Angry Street (1950) Mikio Naruse, Jûkichi Uno, Yasumi Hara, Yuriko Hamada, Crime, Drama

The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of the University of Tokyo, and the high life of jazzy dance halls. Read More »
Ai to kibô no machi / A Street of Love and Hope (1959) Nagisa Ôshima, Fumio Watanabe, Yuki Tominaga, Kakuko Chino, Drama

A young man runs a scam selling pigeons that always return to his home. A rich girl takes an interest in him and tries to help him find a good job. Read More »
Sekkusu hantâ – sei kariudo / Sex Hunter (1980) Toshiharu Ikeda, Erina Miyai, Ayako Ôta, Rei Asô, Drama, Erotic

A beautiful young ballet dancer is accepted into a prestigious and exclusive dance academy. Read More »
Hikinige / Hit and Run (1966) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Yôko Tsukasa, Eitarô Ozawa, Crime, Drama

A working-class woman becomes bent on revenge after her little boy is killed in a hit and run; she discovers that the man who took the rap was simply a corporate lackey covering up for his boss’s wife. Read More »