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Memories of Matsuko (2006) Tetsuya Nakashima, Miki Nakatani, Eita Nagayama, Yûsuke Iseya
When Matsuko is murdered, her nephew, Sho, gets to progressively unveil the many details of her mysterious past Read More »
Monster Heaven: Ghost Hero (1990) Macoto Tezuka, Masao Kusakari, Kaori Mizushima, Hideyo Amamoto
A major electronics company on the verge of developing technology to create a 3D image that can be physically handled Read More »
Goyokin (1969) Hideo Gosha, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsurô Tanba, Yôko Tsukasa
Tatsuya Nakadai plays a samurai overcome with guilt over his unwitting part in a massacre of a small village. Read More »
Gokuaku bôzu: nenbutsu hitokiri tabi / Wicked Priest 3 (1969) Takashi Harada, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Minoru Ôki, Bunta Sugawara
Shinkai comes to the aid of a coastal village being held hostage by a group of political revolutionaries. Read More »
Bebop High School / Bi bappu haisukuru (1985) Hiroyuki Nasu, Kôjiro Shimizu, Tôru Nakamura, Miho Nakayama
If your girl or boy attends Bee Bop High School it is time to seek out alternatives. Read More »
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1974) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Nobuo Kaneko
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. Read More »
Bloodstained Clan Honor / Chi-zome no daimon (1970) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Tatsuo Umemiya, Kôji Tsuruta
It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market Read More »
Osaka Elegy / Naniwa erejî (1936) Kenji Mizoguchi, Isuzu Yamada, Seiichi Takegawa, Chiyoko Ôkura
Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss, Mr. Asai, so she can pay her father’s debt, and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement. Read More »
Ubume no natsu / Summer of Ubume (2005) Akio Jissôji, Hiroshi Abe, Nômaru Abe, Yoshiyoshi Arakawa
During the 1950’s, a Tokyo woman from a wealthy family has been pregnant for 20 months while her husband Read More »