Covering the years from 1932 through 1957, this is the story of the trials and tribulations of lighthouse keeper Keiji Sada and his wife Hideko Takamine. Read More »
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The Black Book / Kuroi gashû: Aru sarariman no shôgen (1960) Hiromichi Horikawa, Keiju Kobayashi, Chisako Hara, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Crime, Drama
A forty-year-old office worker, Ishino get good income, nice family and a love affair with girl co-worker. Read More »
The Village (1975) Yôji Yamada, Chieko Baishô, Akira Terao, Atom Shimojô
A quasi-docu-drama pertaining to the monumental process to bring a performance troupe to a small Japanese village to perform for one night. Read More »
Whistling in Kotan (1959) Mikio Naruse, Ken Yamauchi, Yoshiko Kôda, Masayuki Mori
In the outskirts of a city in Hokkaido, an indigenous Ainu family faces discrimination Read More »
Yakuza Graveyard AKA Yakuza no hakaba: Kuchinashi no hana (1976) Kinji Fukasaku, Tetsuya Watari, Meiko Kaji, Tatsuo Umemiya
When a cop is transferred to a new precinct it is obvious that the area’s yakuza mob Read More »
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 »