The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazatos unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Read More »
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Serial Killer / Ryakushô: renzoku shasatsuma (1975) Masao Adachi
A visual document of the life of serial killer Norio Nagayama Read More »
Body Drop Asphalt (2000) Junko Wada, Sayuri Oyamada, Makoto Ogi, Yôji Tanaka
Eri Manaka is young, charming and writes a romance novel out of boredom. Read More »
Organised Violence Two / Zoku soshiki bôryoku (1967) Jun’ya Satô, Tetsurô Tanba, Fumio Watanabe, Hayato Tani
A superb proto-jitsuroku type yakuza film by Junya Sato. Fumio Watanabe (in probably his best role) Read More »
Duel at Lightning Pass / Inazuma tôge no kettô (1962) Nobuo Nakagawa, Utaemon Ichikawa, Shinjirô Ebara, Terumi Oka
A story about a spear master’s spiritual and martial discipline. Read More »
Bloodiest Flower / Nihon jokyo-den: ketto midare-bana (1971) Kôsaku Yamashita, Sumiko Fuji, Ken Takakura, Masahiko Tsugawa
The story of Tei, a female coalmine operator, who risks her life to protect the business that was passed on by her late husband. Read More »
Brave Red Flower of the North / Nihon jokyo-den: makka na dokyo-bana (1970) Yasuo Furuhata, Sumiko Fuji, Ken Takakura, Shingo Yamashiro
An exciting tale of action on the distant northern island of Hokkaido around the beginning Read More »
Only On Mondays / Getsuyôbi no Yuka (1964) Kô Nakahira, Mariko Kaga, Akira Nakao, Yasukiyo Umeno
Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa Read More »
Yatsuhaka-mura / Village of Eight Gravestones (1977) Yoshitarô Nomura, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Mayumi Ogawa, Tsutomu Yamazaki
A Tokyo man witnesses the death by poisoning of his grandfather, Read More »
Kage no kuruma / The Shadow Within (1970) Yoshitarô Nomura, Shima Iwashita, Gô Katô, Mayumi Ogawa
When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him. Read More »