A woman and her daughter-in-law are raped and murdered by samurais during the time of civil war. Read More »
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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 »
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun / Gunki hatameku motoni (1972) Kinji Fukasaku, Tetsurô Tanba, Sachiko Hidari, Shinjirô Ebara
Twenty six years after the execution of her soldier husband on the dying days of World War II Read More »