Three old gangsters pull off one last heist to raise much-needed cash for their various debts. Read More »
Tag Archives: Ken’ichi Hagiwara
Yatsuhaka-mura / Village of Eight Gravestones (1977) Yoshitarô Nomura, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Mayumi Ogawa, Tsutomu Yamazaki
A Tokyo man witnesses the death by poisoning of his grandfather, Read More »
The Seburi Story / Seburi monogatari (1985) Sadao Nakajima, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Yumiko Fujita, Michiko Kohno
The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject Read More »
Modori River / Modori-gawa (1983) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Mariko Fuji, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Mieko Harada
Gakuyo is a poet of tanka (Japanese verses comprising 31 syllables) and spends his days in the company of prostitutes. Read More »
Bitterness of Youth AKA Seishun no satetsu (1974) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Kaori Momoi, Fumi Dan
A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry. Read More »
Love Letter AKA Koibumi (1985) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Mitsuko Baishô, Keiko Takahashi
A spontaneous and youthfully careless painter and teacher Sh?ichi lives an ordinary family life Read More »
Yakuza Ladies 3 (1989) Yasuo Furuhata, Yoshiko Mita, Rino Katase, Ken’ichi Hagiwara
Upon the passing of the Sakanishi Clan’s boss, a fierce battle between his wife Hazuki and his disciple Terada breaks out. Read More »
The Petrified Forest (1973) Masahiro Shinoda, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Sayoko Ninomiya, Masako Yagi
Based on novel by Shintaro Ishihara, this is a human drama about the complex relationship of parent and child. Read More »
Four Days of Snow and Blood (1989) Hideo Gosha, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Tomokazu Miura, Masahiro Motoki, Action, Drama, War
Based on the “2.26 Incident”, an attempted coup d’état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Read More »
Yakusoku / The Rendezvous (1972) Kôichi Saitô, Keiko Kishi, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Yoshie Minami, Drama
During a long train ride heading north of Japan, a young man addresses an older woman in front of him. At first she doesn’t respond, but he finally gets her into a conversation when he offers her lunch. Thus begins Saito Koichi’s famous romantic thriller, Le Rendezvous. The woman turns out to be a murderer on parole, whist the man a runaway accused of assault and robbery. As it happens, the two soon fall in love. The woman asks the man to wait two years until she is released from jail. And he agress.
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