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Father of the Kamikaze / Â kessen kôkûtai (1974) Kôsaku Yamashita, Kôji Tsuruta, Noboru Andô, Shinjirô Ebara

Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan’s defeat in WWII was inevitable. Read More »
Tora-san 6 / Otoko wa tsurai yo: Junjô hen (1971) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Ayako Wakao, Chieko Baishô

A girl who has escaped from an institution falls in love with Tora-san. Read More »
Tora-san 50 / Otoko wa tsurai yo 50: Okaeri Tora-san (2019) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Hidetaka Yoshioka

The 50th film in Tora-san series to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the series. Read More »
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet / Rengô kantai shirei chôkan: Yamamoto Isoroku (2011) Izuru Narushima, Kôji Yakusho, Hiroshi Abe, Shûichi Azumaya

The life of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto from the early 1930’s to his death at the hands of the US military in 1943. Read More »
Nishi Ginza Station / Nishi Ginza ekimae (1958) Shôhei Imamura, Frank Nagai, Shin’ichi Yanagisawa, Hisano Yamaoka

This Japanese comedy is bookended by Frank Nagai’s title song, and Nagai keeps cropping up throughout the film Read More »
Admiral Yamamoto / Rengô kantai shirei chôkan: Yamamoto Isoroku (1968) Seiji Maruyama, Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Yôko Tsukasa

As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto Read More »
An Osaka Story / Ôsaka monogatari (1957) Kôzaburô Yoshimura, Raizô Ichikawa, Kyôko Kagawa, Shintarô Katsu

Story follows a poor peasant family that through hardship gets some money and how that change them. Read More »
Irezumi / Spirit of Tattoo (1982) Yoichi Takabayashi, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Yûsuke Takita, Harue Kyô

To satisfy her lover’s fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered Read More »
If Cats Disappeared from the World / Sekai kara neko ga kietanara (2016) Akira Nagai, Mauro Caiazza, Gaku Hamada, Mieko Harada

Young mailman finds out he has no time left due to a terminal disease. Read More »