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Tag Archives: japanese
Quick Draw Joe (1961) Hayauchi yarô
Joe of Aces is a bounty hunter in the wide open spaces of Northern Japan. Read More »
Sei chitai: Sex zone (1968) Masao Adachi
Inspired by the true story of a Geisha murdered in a city famous for its baths, Adachi forged here his favorite style Read More »
Mutant Girls Squad (2010) Noboru Iguchi
On her sixteenth birthday, Rin (Yumi Sugimoto), a bullied, timid schoolgirl witnesses her parents killed by fearful, anti-mutant humans. Read More »
The Claws of the Divine Beast (1980)
Based on a mystery by Taiwanese-Japanese author Chin Shun-shin. After two elderly men in Yokohama quarrel Read More »
Runway to Hell (1960) Masahiro Makino
When Kaneko Ichinosuke aims to avenge his father who was wrongly accused of embezzlement, the samurai Kochiyama Soshun agrees to assist. Read More »
Summer Lights (2016) Lumières d’été
On the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Akihiro, a native Japanese filmmaker living in Paris Read More »
Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu (1965) Daisuke Itô
In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. Read More »
Supermarket Woman (1996) Sûpâ no onna
Goro’s supermarket is not doing well; the rival “Bargains Galore” threatens his business. Read More »
Kyoto Story (2010) Kyoto uzumasa monogatari
Kyoko is a university librarian and she also helps her parents with their drycleaning company. Read More »