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Tag Archives: japanese
Battle in Outer Space / Uchû sai sensô (1959) Ishirô Honda, Ryô Ikebe, Kyôko Anzai, Minoru Takada
Munchkin-like aliens invade Earth full force with their flying saucers and laser weapons, rendering cities helpless. Read More »
Brother (2000) Takeshi Kitano, Claude Maki, Omar Epps
A Japanese Yakuza gangster is exiled to the United States. Read More »
Ashura / Ashura-jô no hitomi (2005) Yôjirô Takita, Somegorô Ichikawa, Rie Miyazawa, Kanako Higuchi
Adapted from the successful play, the film takes place in the 19th Japan Read More »
Hikikomori: Tokyo Plastic (2004) Adario Strange, Rex Hayashi, Tsutomu Ishizuka, Kayoko Kawahara
In “Hikikomori: Tokyo Plastic,” Naomi, a young Japanese hacker born in Tokyo Read More »
The Whispering of the Gods / Gerumaniumu no yoru (2005) Tatsushi Ohmori, Hirofumi Arai, Leona Hirota, Megumi Sawara
Rou returns to the rural seminary farm where he studied as a boy and was molested by priests. Read More »
Legend of the Eight Samurai / Satomi hakken-den (1983) Kinji Fukasaku, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Hiroyuki Sanada, Shin’ichi Chiba
Eight mysterious crystals from the body of a long-dead princess now identify the eight samurai Read More »
Map of the Sounds of Tokyo (2009) Isabel Coixet, Rinko Kikuchi, Sergi López, Min Tanaka
A dramatic thriller that centers on a fish-market employee who doubles as a contract killer. Read More »
Man from Shimizu / Shimizu Minato no meibutso otoko: Enshûmori no Ishimatsu (1958) Masahiro Makino, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Hitomi Nakahara, Yumiko Hasegawa
Adventures of Mori no Ishimatsu, a famous member of Jirocho gang. Read More »
Retreat Through the Wet Wasteland / Nureta koya o hashire (1973) Yukihiro Sawada, Yuri Yamashina, Takeo Chii, Maki Kawamura
A group of burglars in black tights breaks into a church to commit robbery Read More »