Seiji Iwahashi is released early from a 10-year prison sentence for killing the boss of a rival. Read More »
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Travelling Actors / Tabi yakusha (1940) Mikio Naruse, Kamatari Fujiwara, Kan Yanagiya, Minoru Takase
Story about a group of actors mostly based on the guys playing the horse. Read More »
The Dancing Girl of Izu / Koi no hana saku Izu no odoriko (1933) Heinosuke Gosho, Kinuyo Tanaka, Den Ohinata, Tokuji Kobayashi
In this adaptation from Kawabata, a young student becomes friends with a brother Read More »
Yellow Crow / Kiiroi karasu (1957) Heinosuke Gosho, Chikage Awashima, Yûnosuke Itô, Kinuyo Tanaka
A young boy has formed an idealized image of his father, who has yet to be repatriated from Russia. Read More »
Once More / Ima hitotabi no (1947) Heinosuke Gosho, Mieko Takamine, Ichirô Ryûzaki, Haruo Tanaka
A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman Read More »
Saya: Perspective in Love / Saya no iru tousizu (1986) Akiyoshi Kimata, Ikue Masudo, Tatsuo Nadaka, Masami Tsuchiya
The flamboyant editor of an underground porn magazine asks his star photographer Read More »
Wandering Home / Yoi ga sametara, uchi ni kaerô (2010) Yôichi Higashi, Tadanobu Asano, Hiromi Nagasaku, Sei Andô
War photojournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children. Read More »
The Creature Called Man / Jaga wa hashitta (1970) Kiyoshi Nishimura, Yûzô Kayama, Jirô Tamiya, Mariko Kaga
A police inspector and Olympic sharpshooter (Kayama) Read More »
Darkness in the Light / Nippon no kuroi natsu – Enzai (2001) Kei Kumai, Kiichi Nakai, Akira Terao, Naomi Hosokawa
A middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture) Read More »
Rampo (1994) Rintarô Mayuzumi, Kazuyoshi Okuyama, Naoto Takenaka, Michiko Hada, Masahiro Motoki
Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government Read More »