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Tag Archives: japanese
Nagisa (2000) Masaru Konuma, Madoka Matsuda
This film takes place one summer during the 1960s near a beach in Enoshima located outside of Tokyo. Read More »
Doing Time (2002) – Yôichi Sai
A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized Read More »
Dog Race (1998) Inu hashiru – Yôichi Sai
Nakayama (Goro Kishitani) is a suave police detective who doesn’t play by the rules. Read More »
Storm Over the Pacific / Hawai Middowei daikaikûsen: Taiheiyô no arashi (1960) Shûe Matsubayashi, Hugo Grimaldi, Yôsuke Natsuki, Toshirô Mifune, Kôji Tsuruta
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan’s Naval Air Force. Read More »
The Sting of Death (1990) Kôhei Oguri, Keiko Matsuzaka, Ittoku Kishibe, Midori Kiuchi
Period drama set in the 1950’s about a couple isolating themselves from the outside world as they attempt Read More »
I, the Executioner (1968) Tai Katô, Chieko Baishô, Yuki Kawamura, Sanae Nakahara
Police investigators investigate the link between a serial killer’s machinations Read More »
Labyrinth of Dreams (1997) Gakuryû Ishii, Rena Komine, Tadanobu Asano, Kotomi Kyôno
Tomiko is a conductor in a rural bus driven by the handsome Niitaka. Tomiko had received a letter from her best friend Tsuyako Read More »
A Class to Remember 2 / Gakko II (1996) Yôji Yamada, Toshiyuki Nishida, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Ayumi Hamasaki
Two teachers at a special high school must deal with the fact that two of their learning impaired students have just disappeared. Read More »
Gakko / A Class to Remember (1993) Yôji Yamada, Toshiyuki Nishida, Eiko Shinya, Keiko Takeshita
Kuroi, a night school teacher, asks his student to each write an essay recalling their experience in his class. Read More »