Japan

A tragic love story about a prostitute, Yuko and Seijyun, a young trainee monk. Based on a novel by Tsutomu Minakami, a Naoki Prize winner.Read More »

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Assigned to kill a Japanese crime boss, Mayo miscalculates and kills an innocent man instead, and his widow pledges to avenge his death.Read More »

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Ikko, the six year old daughter of a yakuza gang boss witnesses the brutal slaying of her parents and is only saved from sharing their fate by an underground hitwoman who goes by the nom-de-guerre of “Black Angel.” Years after escaping to America, Ikko returns to Tokyo as a young woman. She adopts the name “Black Angel” and is out for revenge.Read More »

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The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900’s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without rest, and endured those conditions and sexual harassment to earn money for their poor families. Across the ocean, it was the great depression in America.Read More »

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A three part-film based on short stories about the difficult lot of women in the early Meiji era. This is the film that swept almost all the Japanese awards for the year of Tokyo Story and Ugetsu (among others great films) — and lost to the fairly inconsequential Gate of Hell at the Cannes Festival. Imai and Kinoshita (and not Ozu, Naruse or Mizoguchi) were the most popular (and critically acclaimed) directors of the Japanese Golden Age of the 50s. While I find the contemporaneous adulation for Kinoshita beyond my understanding, I have found the few Imai films I’ve seen fairly impressive. And this is no exception.Read More »

It is a talker of the Keirin who has risen from the bottom by making the first escape cut to my good technique. But before him, Prince seirabara, Prince of Keirin, always stood, and Wataru felt sorry. Kiyohara, who was synchronized with Wacoal at the Keirin school, made an invincible streak record in the school and won a series of consecutive wins in the race in this season. Although he tried to fight against the defeat of Kiyohara, he was the ozoshi of the zaibatsu, and Kiyohara, who left the real world due to his sudden illness, lost his enemy.Read More »

A woman remember’s her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.Read More »

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In this downbeat, comedic portrait of ’80s corporate Japan, a section chief and family man (Hajime Hana) fights off the gloom of his impending retirement by rekindling his youthful love of jazz music.Read More »

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A samurai plots to reclaim his estranged wife after she leaves him over a murder scandal. When her sister falls victim to a scheme, he and his friend manipulate events, but their plans lead to supernatural vengeance.Read More »