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Satan’s Town / Akuma no machi (1956) Seijun Suzuki, Seizaburô Kawazu, Ichirô Sugai, Azusa Yumi

A notorious murderer Oba escapes from jail. Hayasaki, the Oba’s right hand Read More »
Night of the Shooting Stars (2003) Shin Togashi, Yûko Takeuchi, Hisashi Yoshizawa, Yûko Itô

Working long hours in the emergency room, nurse Kana Aoshima befriends musician and frequent hospital patient Shogo Amami. Read More »
Ohara Shôsuke-san / Mr. Shosuke Ohara (1949) Hiroshi Shimizu, Koume Akasaka, Akiko Kazami, Denjirô Ôkôchi

Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can’t refuse the many villagers Read More »
Crossroads of Death / Shi no jûjiro (1956) Umetsugu Inoue, Rentarô Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Hisano Yamaoka

Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having Read More »
Golden Demon / Konjiki yasha (1954) Kôji Shima, Jun Negami, Fujiko Yamamoto, Kenji Sugawara

Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage Read More »
A Woman Crying in Spring (1933) Hiroshi Shimizu, Akiko Chihaya, Ryuko Fuji, Shizue Hyôdô

Described by David Bordwell as ‘probably the greatest revelation’ of the retrospective of Shochiku’s Read More »
Women of the Night / Yoru no onnatachi (1948) Kenji Mizoguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Sanae Takasugi, Tomie Tsunoda

Fusako Owada, a young woman in postwar Japan, is the mistress of a notorious drug dealer. Read More »
Bakurô ichidai / The Life of a Horse Trader (1951) Keigo Kimura, Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Takashi Shimura

This early gem starring the great Mifune Toshiba tells the tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka “The Shark,” Read More »
Koichiro Uno’s Wet and Swinging (1984) Shûsuke Kaneko, Natsuko Yamamoto, Jôji Sawada, Arisa Hayashi

The rise of a young and sexy tennis player. Read More »