
A superstitious farming family is hesitant to use their prized fallow fields to grow crops to help feed the nation’s troops. Read More »
Tag Archives: japanese
Naked Ambition (1970) Kazuo Ikehiro, Michiyo Yasuda

Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord (Tayu). The evil woman Ogin tries to gain Read More »
Amen, Somen and Rugger Men! (2000) Mitsuhiro Mihara

Pretty Eri joins of the most disreputable high schools as a new teacher. Read More »
Bodyguard Kiba: Apocalypse of Carnage 2 (1995) Takashi Miike

When a young karate student attempts to earn some extra cash by serving Read More »
Marriage (1947) Keisuke Kinoshita, Kinuyo Tanaka

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family’s in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat. Read More »
Carmen Comes Home (1951) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideko Takamine

With no practical skills and being slightly scatterbrained, Kin Aoyama ran away Read More »
Rainbow Kids (1991) Kihachi Okamoto, Tôru Kazama

A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose Read More »
Giants and Toys (1958) Yasuzô Masumura, Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product Read More »
11.25: The Day He Chose His Own Fate (2012) Kôji Wakamatsu

On November 25th 1970, a man committed ritual suicide inside the Tokyo headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Defence Read More »
Caterpillar (2010) Kôji Wakamatsu, Shinobu Terajima

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, in 1940, Lieutenant Kurokawa returns home as a honored Read More »