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Tag Archives: japanese
Yakuza Demon / Kikoku (2003) Takashi Miike, Riki Takeuchi, Yûta Sone, Mickey Curtis

Seiji and Yoshifumi are the only members of the Muto branch of the Date Family. Read More »
Nastasya / Nastazja (1994) Andrzej Wajda, Tamasaburô Bandô, Toshiyuki Nagashima

Andrzej Wajda’s Japanese-language film based on the last chapter of Dostoevsky’s Idiot Read More »
Tsuburo no gara (2004) Masafumi Yamada, Yûko Hosoe, Shunsuke Iki, Tadayoshi Nishimura

A man and a woman wake up in a hospital room. She’s a nurse, he’s a patient. Read More »
Warm Current / Danryû (1939) Kôzaburô Yoshimura, Mieko Takamine, Shin Saburi, Hideo Fujino

After his benefactor Shima falls ill, Hibiki (Shin Saburi) sets out to rebuild the hospital that Shima had run. Read More »
The Deep Blue Sea / Aoi unabara (1957) Tsuneo Kobayashi, Hibari Misora, Ken Takakura, Hachirô Kasuga

From a novel by noted author Setoguchi Torao, this modern-day movie stars the great Misora Hibari. Read More »
The Straits of Love and Hate / Aien kyo (1937) Kenji Mizoguchi, Taizô Fukami, Akira Harue, Kiyoshi Katô

A young couple of lovers want to travel to Tokyo to work and form a family there Read More »
My Second Brother / Nianchan (1960) Shôhei Imamura, Hiroyuki Nagato, Kayo Matsuo, Takeshi Okimura

Being a faithful ‘company man’, Yoshikawa moves steadily ahead within the Toho corporation. Read More »
The Little Girl Who Conquered Time / Toki o kakeru shôjo (1983) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Tomoyo Harada, Ryôichi Takayanagi, Toshinori Omi

Yoshiyama Kazuko is in the 3rd grade of junior high. One day, she’s cleaning in the laboratory Read More »
Be My Slave / Watashi no dorei ni narinasai (2012) Tôru Kamei, Mitsu Dan, Hiroaki Mayama, Misaki Saijô

Hiroaki Mayama is a publishing company employee who’s attracted Read More »