The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro. Read More »
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The Man Who Stole the Sun AKA Taiyô wo nusunda otoko (1979) Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Bunta Sugawara, Kenji Sawada, Kimiko Ikegami
A misfit high-school science teacher decides to build his own atomic bomb. Read More »
Before We Vanish AKA Sanpo suru shinryakusha (2017) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Masami Nagasawa, Ryûhei Matsuda, Hiroki Hasegawa
As vanguards of an invasion of the planet three aliens take possession of host bodies and assume human form. Read More »
The Dream of Garuda AKA Kôkyû sôpu tekunikku 4: Monzetsu higi (1994) Takahisa Zeze, Takeshi Itô, Saki Kurihara, Shirô Shimomoto
A convicted rapist, Ikuo is released from prison and goes in pursuit of the woman he raped, Mieko. Read More »
Lady of the Stable AKA Umagoya no reijô (1991) Hisayasu Satô, Yukinojô, Mineo Sugiura, Rie Asai
Yuu is living with her Ryusei horse on the edge of the sea. Read More »
Temple of the Golden Pavilion AKA Kinkakuji (1976) Yoichi Takabayashi, Saburô Shinoda, Toshio Shiba, Katsuhiko Yokomitsu
The story takes place during the end of the Pacific War and the aftermath period and it focuses on Mizoguchi, who is the son of a Buddhist Priest. Read More »
The Proud Challenge AKA Hokori takaki chosen (1962) Kinji Fukasaku, Kôji Tsuruta, Tetsurô Tanba, Hitomi Nakahara
As the film begins, Kuroki, a journalist for a trade paper, is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. Read More »
Love Exposure AKA Ai no mukidashi (2008) Sion Sono, Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Andô
Three emotionally abused people from the fringes of society get locked in a convoluted love triangle. Read More »
Basara – The Princess Goh AKA Gô-hime (1992) Hiroshi Teshigahara, Rie Miyazawa, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshiya Nagasawa
Chronicles the trials and tribulations of Oribe, the successor to tea-master Rikyu, Usu, his gardener Read More »
The Army (1944) Rikugun – Keisuke Kinoshita
Kinoshita’s ambitious and intensely moving film begins as a multi-generational epic about the military legacy of one Japanese family Read More »