Erotic drama set in an underground Tokyo club called The Bedroom, where the female clientele Read More »
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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 »
The Blue Pearl (1951) Ishirô Honda, Yuriko Hamada, Reizaburô Yamamoto, Ryô Ikebe
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama Read More »
Safari 5000 (1969) Koreyoshi Kurahara, Yûjirô Ishihara, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshirô Mifune
Basically, it’s about a Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) Read More »