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Tag Archives: japanese
The Woman Who Touched the Legs (1960) Yasuzô Masumura, Machiko Kyô, Hajime Hana, Eiji Funakoshi
A pretty pickpocket is travelling on an express train from Osaka to her home village. Read More »
Shinrei (1996) Junji Inagawa, Masayuki Miyake, Rumi, Mizuki Sano
Junji Inagawa, a guide to the spirit world, has collected and filmed his own spiritual Read More »
The Falcon Fighters / Rikugun hayabusa sentotai (1969) Mitsuo Murayama, Makoto Satô, Shiho Fujimura, Sei Hiraizumi
In the days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Kato Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air Corps Read More »
TAP: Perfect Education (2013) Kazuki Katashima, Narimi Arimori, Seiji Chihara, Kôsei Katô
A middle-aged yakuza, Sanada claims that the problematic daughter of his boss, Yui is his biological daughter. Read More »
Meshi / Repast (1951) Mikio Naruse, Ken Uehara, Setsuko Hara, Yukiko Shimazaki
Michiyo moved to Osaka two years ago, when her husband Hatsunosuke who works Read More »
Kyo mo mata kakute ari nan / Thus Another Day (1959) Keisuke Kinoshita, Teiji Takahashi, Yoshiko Kuga, Kanzaburô Nakamura, Drama, Romance
A young wife looses patience with her career-minded husband and returns to her parents’ home Read More »
Dokuritsu gurentai / Desperate Outpost (1959) Kihachi Okamoto, Makoto Satô, Izumi Yukimura, Misa Uehara
When Sergeant Okubo’s brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War Read More »
The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family / Todake no kyôdai (1941) Yasujirô Ozu, Mieko Takamine, Shin Saburi, Hideo Fujino
When the patriarch of the Toda family suddenly dies, his widow discovers that he has left Read More »
Fort Graveyard / Chi to suna (1965) Kihachi Okamoto, Toshirô Mifune, Makoto Satô, Reiko Dan
Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China Read More »