Film inspired by the life of Japanese actor Taiji Tonoyama, with whom Kaneto Shindo Read More »
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Sumo Do, Sumo Don’t AKA Shiko funjatta (1992) Masayuki Suo, Masahiro Motoki, Misa Shimizu, Naoto Takenaka
Yet another tradition in the tradition of “ragtag misfits” in Japanese comedy…Sumo Do, Sumo Don’t tells the story of a university sumo club in Japan. Read More »
Shall We Dance? AKA Shall we dansu? (1996) Masayuki Suo, Kôji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka
Shohei Sugiyama has attained all that he has wanted in life. But he is still depressed and unhappy. Read More »
Sentô shôjo: Chi no tekkamen densetsu / Mutant Girls Squad (2010) Noboru Iguchi, Asami, Naoto Takenaka, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
On her sixteenth birthday, Rin (Yumi Sugimoto), a bullied, timid schoolgirl witnesses her parents killed by fearful, anti-mutant humans. Read More »
Ichimei / Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011) Takashi Miike, Kôji Yakusho, Munetaka Aoki, Naoto Takenaka, Drama
An tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.
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