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Tag Archives: japanese
Broken Heart / Dai shitsuren (1995) Kazuki Ohmori

Eight love stories starts and ends in an amusement park. Read More »
The Egoists / Keibetsu (2011) Ryuichi Hiroki, Anne Suzuki, Kengo Kôra, Sora Aoi

After losing money with gambling Kazu destroys a nightclub for a Yakuza to clear his debt. Read More »
The Woman of Rumour / Uwasa no onna (1954) Kenji Mizoguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tomoemon Otani, Yoshiko Kuga

Hatsuko Umabuchi is a widow who runs a prosperous geisha house in present-day Kyoto. Read More »
Ohyaku: The Female Demon / Yôen dokufu-den: Han’nya no Ohyaku (1968) Yoshihiro Ishikawa, Junko Miyazono, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Kunio Murai

A female acrobat and a thief plans to steal the gold from the mint. Read More »
Black Panther Bitch M / Kuroi Mehyô M (1974) Koretsugu Kurahara, Reiko Ike, Mikio Narita, Akiko Mori

A female master assassin is sent to take down a syndicate boss who is making a power play for the top. Read More »
Muhomatsu Returns Home / Muhômatsu kokyô ni kaeru (1973) Shohei Imamura, Fujiko Fujita, Fujio Fujita, Matsuyoshi Fujita

Three years after his first two documentaries on these soldiers who did not return Read More »
Kingdom of Jirocho 3 / Jirochô sangokushi daisanbu (1964) Masahiro Makino, Kôji Tsuruta, Yoshiko Sakuma, Eitarô Shindô

The oft-filmed tale of real-life yakuza boss Shimizu no Jirocho is told this time by Masahiro Makino Read More »
Helpless (1996) Shinji Aoyama, Tadanobu Asano, Ken Mitsuishi, Yôichirô Saitô

Yasuo is a gangster just released from jail. Believing his boss double-crossed him Read More »
Sad Vacation (2007) Shinji Aoyama, Tadanobu Asano, Kaori Fujimitsu, Eri Ishida

Kenji, abandoned by his mother, scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs including driving Read More »