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 »
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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 »
A Wife’s Heart / Tsuma no kokoro (1956) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi
A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop. Read More »
Wife AKA Tsuma (1953) Mikio Naruse, Mieko Takamine, Ken Uehara, Rentarô Mikuni
Tokyo. Mihoko and Toichi Nakagawa’s ten year marriage is crumbling out of inertia. Read More »
Flowing / Nagareru (1956) Mikio Naruse, Kinuyo Tanaka, Isuzu Yamada, Hideko Takamine
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Read More »
13 Steps of Maki: The Young Aristocrats / Wakai kizoku-tachi: 13-kaidan no Maki (1975) Makoto Naitô, Etsuko Shihomi, Misa Ohara, Hiroshi Nawa
Maki is the leader of a female gang that fights for justice Read More »