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Lord of Steel Heart (1961) Kôkichi Uchide, Utaemon Ichikawa, Shingo Yamashiro, Tomisaburô Wakayama
A Tokugawa Daimyo rebels against an his lord after the battle of Sekigahara. Read More »
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 8 – Forbidden Love (1971) Kiyoshi Saeki, Ken Takakura, Ryô Ikebe, Kôji Tsuruta
The eighth chapter of the “Showa Zankyoden” series. A story of lone wolf struggling with human compassion and duty. Read More »
A Paucity of Flying Dreams (1990) Eizô Sugawa, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Eri Ishida, Mariko Kaga
A man in hospital has a weird and sexy conversation with a woman in the next bed, whom he cannot see. Read More »
Ikimono no kiroku / I Live in Fear (1955) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is so frightened and obsessed with the idea of nuclear Read More »
Nogiku no gotoki kimi nariki / She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955) Keisuke Kinoshita, Noriko Arita, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura
An old man, being rowed along a river, sees a field of daisies and thinks back to when he was fifteen. Read More »
Sanjuro (1962) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi
A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle Read More »
Memories of Matsuko (2006) Tetsuya Nakashima, Miki Nakatani, Eita Nagayama, Yûsuke Iseya
When Matsuko is murdered, her nephew, Sho, gets to progressively unveil the many details of her mysterious past Read More »
Monster Heaven: Ghost Hero (1990) Macoto Tezuka, Masao Kusakari, Kaori Mizushima, Hideyo Amamoto
A major electronics company on the verge of developing technology to create a 3D image that can be physically handled Read More »
Goyokin (1969) Hideo Gosha, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsurô Tanba, Yôko Tsukasa
Tatsuya Nakadai plays a samurai overcome with guilt over his unwitting part in a massacre of a small village. Read More »