Two teachers at a special high school must deal with the fact that two of their learning impaired students have just disappeared. Read More »
Tag Archives: japanese
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 »
The Bedroom / Uwakizuma: Chijokuzeme (1992) Hisayasu Satô, Kiyomi Itô, Momori Asano, Kyôko Nakamura
Erotic drama set in an underground Tokyo club called The Bedroom, where the female clientele Read More »
The Red Cherry Blossom Family (1972) Masahiro Makino, Sumiko Fuji, Ken Takakura, Kôji Tsuruta
It is almost unheard of for a ninkyô or jitsuroku yakuza to have an even halfway happy ending. Read More »
Kisses (1957) Yasuzô Masumura, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe, Aiko Mimasu
Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. Read More »
Four Seasons: Utopiano (1980) Shôichirô Sasaki, Sachiyo Nakao
A visual poem that traces the sonic memories of piano tuner Eiko. Read More »
Express Train (1967) Masaharu Segawa, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Kô Nishimura, Shôichi Ozawa
Atsumi Kiyoshi, famous for his role in Torasan, stars as Aoki Goichi, a veteran train conductor Read More »
Ryôjû / Hunting Rifle (1961) Heinosuke Gosho, Yoshie Minami, Mariko Okada, Nobuko Otowa
Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband’s child. Read More »
The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957) Yûzô Kawashima, Furankî Sakai, Sachiko Hidari, Yôko Minamida
Set in the last few years of the shogun’s rule, this period/ensemble movie depicts the lives of the young and the restless at a whorehouse. Read More »
Onna no sono / The Garden of Women (1954) Keisuke Kinoshita, Mieko Takamine, Hideko Takamine, Keiko Kishi
A student at a woman’s university takes a controversial action against the school’s old-fashioned doctrines. Read More »