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Tag Archives: japanese
Dedication of the Great Buddha / Daibutsu kaigen (1952) Teinosuke Kinugasa, Shinobu Araki, Kôtarô Bandô, Kazuo Hasegawa

A talented sculptor is hired to erect a giant Buddha statue when the capital is moved to Nara, in 745 AD. Read More »
Hole in One / Ana (1957) Kon Ichikawa, Machiko Kyô, Eiji Funakoshi, Sô Yamamura

A clever reporter gets involved with a bank embezzlement case. Read More »
Patience Has an End / Gorotsuki mushuku (1971) Yasuo Furuhata, Ken Takakura, Yoko Hayama, Mayumi Kajiwara

Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo Read More »
The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town / Shin Abashiri Bangaichi: Saihate no Nagare-mono (1969) Kiyoshi Saeki, Ken Takakura, Takashi Shimura, Kaneko Iwaskura

It’s a battle of good versus evil in the frozen north when former prison inmate Katsuji takes on Boss Tamaru Read More »
Bounce Ko Gals / Baunsu ko gaurusu (1997) Masato Harada, Hitomi Satô, Yasue Satô, Yukiko Okamoto

Lisa is 16. She is leaving for New York tomorrow at 11 a.m. She saved some money Read More »
The Domain: The Naniwa Story / Nihon Kyokaku-den: Naniwa-hen (1965) Masahiro Makino, Ken Takakura, Hideo Murata, Asao Uchida

Osaka, 1920. A sailor returns from several years at sea to see his brother Read More »
The Chivalrous Life / Kyokotsu ichidai (1967) Masahiro Makino, Ken Takakura, Sumiko Fuji, Minoru Ôki

This is yet another ninkyô yakuza film that seems to be (unconsciously?) trying to deal Read More »
The Woman in the Typhoon Area / Taifuken no onna (1948) Hideo Ôba, Sô Yamamura, Setsuko Hara, Takashi Kanda

A gang of 4 pirates, down on their luck, head for a weather-tracking station on an outlying island Read More »
Unlucky Monkey / Anrakkî monkî (1998) SABU, Shin’ichi Tsutsumi, Hiroshi Shimizu, Akira Yamamoto

Yamazaki has spent a lot of time plotting a robbery of a local bank Read More »