A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. Read More »
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Turn / Taan (2001) Hideyuki Hirayama, Riho Makise, Kankurô Nakamura, Akira Emoto
Maki is a talented copper plate artist, however, just before her first gallery show, she gets struck by a truck. Read More »
Hear the Song of the Wind / Kaze no uta o kike (1982) Kazuki Ohmori, Kaoru Kobayashi, Kimie Shingyôji, Kai Atô
A student travels back to Kobe for the summer. Once there, he meets his friend Rat Read More »
Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab / Hyakuman-doru o tatakidase (1961) Seijun Suzuki, Kôji Wada, Keisuke Noro, Michiko Sawa
Wada Koji fights to become a boxing champion. Read More »
Postman Blues / Posutoman burûsu (1997) Sabu, Shin’ichi Tsutsumi, Keisuke Horibe, Ren Ôsugi
Sawaki is a postman who’s not quite thrilled about his boring way of life. Read More »
Beauty in Rope Hell / Dan Oniroku Bijo nawa jigoku (1983) Genji Nakamura, Miki Takakura, Maya Itô, Daisuke Iijima
A mailman becomes obsessed with a pretty, young wife. He captures the woman Read More »
Heitai Gokudo / Enlisted Yakuza (1968) Kiyoshi Saeki, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Reiko Ônobuta, Shingo Yamashiro
Yakuza from different gangs get enlisted in the Japanese army where they have Read More »
A Woman’s Place / Onna no Za (1962) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Yôko Tsukasa, Yuriko Hoshi
The widow of the eldest son of a large family is financially dependent on her husband’s relatives. Read More »
18 Who Cause a Storm (1963) Yoshishige Yoshida, Tamotsu Hayakawa, Yoshiko Kayama, Taiji Tonoyama
A shipyard worker gets an offer of free lodging in the company seaside rest house. Read More »
Taiheiyô hitoribocchi / Alone Across the Pacific (1963) Kon Ichikawa, Yûjirô Ishihara, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka
Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing Read More »