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Tag Archives: japanese
Valley of Flowers (2006) Pan Nalin, Milind Soman, Mylène Jampanoï, Naseeruddin Shah

Along the highest mountain passes of the Himalayas, tough, intrepid Jalan (Milind Soman) Read More »
Rampo Noir / Ranpo jigoku (2005) Akio Jissôji, Atsushi Kaneko, Hisayasu Satô, Tadanobu Asano, Yûko Daike, Chisako Hara

A Japanese anthology film consisting of four segments on works by Edogawa Ranpo. Read More »
Our Little Sister / Umimachi Diary (2015) Hirokazu Koreeda, Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho

Three sisters live together in their late grandmother’s house in the city of Kamakura. Read More »
Legend of a Duel to the Death / Shitô no densetsu (1963) Keisuke Kinoshita, Shima Iwashita, Mariko Kaga, Gô Katô

A young woman who has been evacuated to Hokkaido with her family during Read More »
The Great Duel (1964) Dai satsujin

A Shogunate Elder connives to rule Japan by making his puppet Read More »
Vanished / Oyayubi sagashi (2006) Naoto Kumazawa, Ken Miyake, Ayumi Ito, Ken’ichi Matsuyama

Eight school friends innocently join together to play a game that, if played well Read More »
Tora-san 28 / Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro kamifusen (1981) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Mikiko Otonashi

Tora-san returns to his family’s home to attend an elementary school class reunion. Read More »
Tora-san 27 / Otoko wa tsurai yo: Naniwa no koi no Torajirô (1981) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Keiko Matsuzaka

When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. Read More »
It Is a Long Walk / Nagasaki burabura bushi (2000) Yukio Fukamachi, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tetsuya Watari, Reiko Takashima

Though she was sold to a geisha house at a young age, Aihara (Yoshinaga) Read More »