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Tag Archives: japanese
Stranger (1991) Shunichi Nagasaki, Yûko Natori, Kentarô Shimizu, Takashi Naitô

After serving time for a case of bank fraud, Kiriko now lives a lone quiet life working as a taxi driver on night shifts. Read More »
The Human Bullet / Nikudan (1968) Kihachi Okamoto, Minori Terada, Naoko Ôtani, Yûnosuke Itô

During World War II, a Japanese soldier finds himself assigned to a kamikaze mission against a U.S. battleship. Read More »
Crazy Love / Kureiji Rabu (1968) Michio Okabe, Mami Aoyama, Gulliver, Mitsutaka Ishii

Shot in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo in 1968 when the underground renaissance Read More »
Youth / Seishun (1968) Kon Ichikawa

“Youth” is about a nationwide baseball tournament among high-schools organized by the newspaper Asashi Shimbun. Read More »
Tattoo Ari (1982) Banmei Takahashi, Ryûdô Uzaki, Keiko Takahashi, Misako Watanabe

An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman Read More »
Mosquito on the Tenth Floor (1983) Jukkai no mosukîto

Jukkai no Mosukito is the tragic story of a policeman who has never succeeded Read More »
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 »