Toru, a down and out tabloid reporter is looking for his next “big” story. Read More »
Tag Archives: japanese
Black Cat / Yabu no naka no kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindô, Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satô
A woman and her daughter-in-law are raped and murdered by samurais during the time of civil war. Read More »
Sympathy for the Underdog / Bakuto gaijin butai (1971) Kinji Fukasaku, Kôji Tsuruta, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Tsunehiko Watase
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. Read More »
Winds of Change / Metamorphoses (1978) Takashi, Peter Ustinov
Several animated stories from “Metamorphoses”, Roman poet Ovid’s narrative of legends, are presented. Read More »
Tales of the Unusual / Yonimo kimyô na monogatari – Eiga no tokubetsu hen (2000) Mamoru Hoshi, Masayuki Ochiai, Hisao Ogura, Kazuyuki Aijima, Izumi Inamori, Renji Ishibashi
A four-part anthology in the spirit of The Twilight Zone, this film starts Read More »
Sayônara (2015) Kôji Fukada, Mari Yamamoto, Irène Jacob, Nijirô Murakami
In the not distant future Japan has again experienced a nuclear incident and is gradually becoming uninhabitable. Read More »
Inferno of Torture / Tokugawa irezumi-shi: Seme jigoku (1969) Teruo Ishii, Teruo Yoshida, Masumi Tachibana, Asao Koike
High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their “production”. Read More »
Two Wives / Tsuma futari (1967) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Mariko Okada, Kôji Takahashi
After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate Read More »
Yokohama BJ Blues / Yokohama BJ burûsu (1981) Eiichi Kudô, Yûsaku Matsuda, Mari Henmi, Toby Kadoguchi
BJ is a relatively unknown blues singer who scraps some bars in Yokohama. Read More »
Bullet of Rage / Crime Hunter (1989) Toshimichi Okawa, Seiji Matano, Masanori Sera, Minako Tanaka
After his partner Ahiru (Riki Takeuchi) is gunned down in the process of arresting criminal Read More »