Long before the events of the movie Ôki, who was approaching middle age, had a relation to 16-year-old Otoko. Read More »
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Tora-san 10 / Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro yumemakura (1972) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Kaoru Yachigusa
Tora-san comes back to his old home in Shibamata. His university professor Mr Okakura Read More »
Snow Country AKA Yukiguni (1957) Shirô Toyoda, Ryô Ikebe, Keiko Kishi, Kaoru Yachigusa
It’s a man’s world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. Read More »
The First Gas Human AKA Gasu ningen dai 1 gô (1960) Ishirô Honda, Tatsuya Mihashi, Kaoru Yachigusa, Yoshio Tsuchiya
A librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into ‘The Human Vapour’. Read More »
Madame White Snake / Byaku fujin no yoren (1956) Shirô Toyoda, Ryô Ikebe, Shirley Yamaguchi, Kaoru Yachigusa
Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form. Read More »
Pastoral: To Die in the Country AKA Den-en ni shisu (1974) Shûji Terayama, Kaoru Yachigusa, Keiko Niitaka, Masumi Harukawa
A young boys’ coming of age tale set in a strange Read More »
Daisatsujin orochi / The Betrayal (1966) Tokuzô Tanaka, Raizô Ichikawa, Kaoru Yachigusa, Shiho Fujimura, Action, Drama
A naively honorable samurai (played by Raizo) comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai principles makes him an oddity among his peers, and a very vulnerable oddity in consequence. He takes the blame for the misdeeds of others, with the understanding that he will be exiled for one year and restored to the clan’s good graces after the political situation dies down. As betrayal begins to heap upon betrayal, he realizes he’ll have to live out his life as a master-less ronin, if not hunted down and killed.
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