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Mai-chan’s Daily Life: The Movie / Mai-chan no nichijô (2014) Sade Satô, Miyako Akane, An Koshi, Shôgo Maruyama

A sadistic place in a remote location put out a help wanted ad luring young teen girls to come work Read More »
Angel Guts: Nami / Tenshi no harawata: Nami (1979) Noboru Tanaka, Eri Kanuma, Takeo Chii, Mimi Sawaki

This is the third film in the Angel Guts series. It tells the story of Nami, a young female journalist. Read More »
Her Lonely Lane / Hôrô-ki (1962) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Akira Takarada, Daisuke Katô

Fumiko struggles to get her literary work published, spending years working Read More »
Wandering Ginza Butterfly 2: She-Cat Gambler / Gincho nagaremono mesuneko bakuchi (1972) Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, Meiko Kaji, Shin’ichi Chiba, Shingo Yamashiro

Nami(played by Meiko Kaji) returns to Tokyo to find the man who killed her father 13 years ago. Read More »
Mishima: The Last Debate / Mishima Yukio vs Tôdai zenkyôtô: 50 nenme no shinjitsu (2020) Keisuke Toyoshima, Yukio Mishima, Osamu Kimura, Masahiko Akuta

One of Japan’s most important 20th century literary figures, nominated for the Nobel Prize Read More »
Nekomimi (1994) Jun Kurosawa

Experimental film in which three girls and one boy lead playful lives. Read More »
I Will Buy You / Anata kaimasu (1956) Masaki Kobayashi, Keiji Sada, Keiko Kishi, Minoru Ôki

Kobayashi’s pitiless take on Japan’s professional baseball industry is unlike any other sports film ever made. Read More »
The Last Ronin / Saigo no Chûshingura (2010) Shigemichi Sugita, Kôji Yakusho, Kôichi Satô, Nanami Sakuraba

16 years after the fateful “revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin” involving samurais from the Ako Read More »
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021) Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Kotone Furukawa, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Katsuki Mori

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