Shinkai comes to the aid of a coastal village being held hostage by a group of political revolutionaries. Read More »
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Bebop High School / Bi bappu haisukuru (1985) Hiroyuki Nasu, Kôjiro Shimizu, Tôru Nakamura, Miho Nakayama
If your girl or boy attends Bee Bop High School it is time to seek out alternatives. Read More »
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1974) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Nobuo Kaneko
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. Read More »
Bloodstained Clan Honor / Chi-zome no daimon (1970) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Tatsuo Umemiya, Kôji Tsuruta
It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market Read More »
Osaka Elegy / Naniwa erejî (1936) Kenji Mizoguchi, Isuzu Yamada, Seiichi Takegawa, Chiyoko Ôkura
Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss, Mr. Asai, so she can pay her father’s debt, and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement. Read More »
Ubume no natsu / Summer of Ubume (2005) Akio Jissôji, Hiroshi Abe, Nômaru Abe, Yoshiyoshi Arakawa
During the 1950’s, a Tokyo woman from a wealthy family has been pregnant for 20 months while her husband Read More »
Miyamoto Musashi / Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto (1954) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Rentarô Mikuni
With his closest friend, Matahachi, Takezo (the town’s wild, orphan kid) leaves his village to join an army on its way to battle. Read More »
Otome-gokoro – Sannin-shimai / Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (1935) Mikio Naruse, Chikako Hosokawa, Masako Tsutsumi, Ryuko Umezono
Three sisters earn money by being street musicians. A number of loosely linked episodes ensue as the sisters Read More »
Enchanted Princess / Hatsuharu tanuki goten (1959) Keigo Kimura, Raizô Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao, Shintarô Katsu
Once upon a time, Okuro (Ayako Wakao), a young female racoon, lived poorly with her drunken father. Read More »
Wild Geese / Gan (1966) Kazuo Ikehiro, Ayako Wakao, Gaku Yamamoto, Eitarô Ozawa
A poor woman agrees to marry a much older man, not knowing that his wife is still alive. Read More »