
Seibei Iguchi, a low-ranking samurai, leads a life without glory as a bureaucrat in the mid-XIX century Japan. Read More »
Tag Archives: japanese
Thousand Cranes / Senba zuru (1969) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Machiko Kyô, Mikijirô Hira

The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher Read More »
Faraway Tomorrow (1979) Tooi ashita

Akira comes to Kyushu to investigate the circumstances surrounding his father’s imprisonment more than 19 years ago. Read More »
An Actor’s Revenge (1959) Yukinojo Henge

Nakamura Yukinojo gains popularity in Edo’s kabuki scene as a handsome onnagata Read More »
Hymn / Sanka (1972) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa

The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin Read More »
Sideways / Saidoweizu (2009) Cellin Gluck, Fumiyo Kohinata, Katsuhisa Namase, Rinko Kikuchi

A middle-aged Japanese man travels to California to attend the wedding of his American-based friend. Read More »
Junk Food / Janku fudo (1997) Masashi Yamamoto, Ali Ahmed, Arata Furuta, Mika Kumagai

Blending widescreen cinematography with digital video, JUNK FOOD casts an unblinking but painterly Read More »
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 »