Working long hours in the emergency room, nurse Kana Aoshima befriends musician and frequent hospital patient Shogo Amami. Read More »
Tag Archives: japanese
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 »
A Woman’s Life / Onna no issho (1962) Yasuzô Masumura, Machiko Kyô, Masaya Takahashi, Jirô Tamiya
Kei, a house servant, is kicked out after an altercation and is then adopted by a nearby family. Read More »
Kikujiro (1999) Takeshi Kitano, Yusuke Sekiguchi, Kayoko Kishimoto
A young, naive boy sets out alone on the road to find his wayward mother. Read More »