Tag Archives: japanese

Experimental film in which three girls and one boy lead playful lives. Read More »

Kobayashi’s pitiless take on Japan’s professional baseball industry is unlike any other sports film ever made. Read More »

16 years after the fateful “revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin” involving samurais from the Ako Read More »

An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding Read More »

The local yakuza gangs dominating the port of Yokohama do not take well the invasion of their territory Read More »

Rika, an ex reform school student, joins a clan of street vendors: the Yakuza intervention soon breaks their peaceful business. Read More »

Kanako returns from the USA to a troubled mother who witnessed a man Read More »

Can a sinful man change and find peace? It’s unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Read More »

A woman arrives as an acquaintance of a sister in law for a day under the bar master Tamura who had guided Yakuza’s escaping. Read More »

Perhaps Kobayashi’s most sordid film, Black River is an exposé of the rampant corruption on Read More »