Japan

A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.Read More »

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Based on the phenomenally popular horror manga by Junji Ito, Uzumaki is the debut feature of Japanese music video director Higuchinsky (born Akirhiro Higuchi). Something strange is going on in the small town of Kurozu-cho. Kirie Goshima (Ericko Hatsune) notices Toshio Saito (popular character actor Ren Osugi), the father of her longtime friend, Shuichi (Fhi Fan), videotaping an extreme close-up of the spiral pattern on a snail’s shell. Shuichi explains that his father is acting strangely, and impulsively asks Kirie to elope with him. She shyly demurs. Later, Toshio asks Kirie’s father, a potter, to make him a plate with an uzumaki, or spiral, pattern.Read More »

Shojo Jutai (1966) is a 1966 movie directed by Koji Shima, with notable stars Ayako Wakao, Takao Ito, and Sanae Nakahara.Read More »

A S&M comedy about a masochist barber.Read More »

Based on the same Lafcadio Hearn “Yuki Onna” story told in Masaki Kobayashi’s classic film “Kwaidan”, but otherwise unrelated (despite Tom Weisser’s typically misinformed and erroneous write-up in multiple editions of his books – different studio, different director, different actors, different soundtrack, different year of release), Kaidan Yuki Jorou features one of the most beautiful and unforgettable female monsters in all of Japanese cinema.Read More »

A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this entertaining tale of love and action.Read More »

This is another of the many versions of the famous story: a poor samurai causes the death of his ailing wife, who is first disfigured by poison (seemed far-fetched until the Yushchenko dioxine case), in order to marry a rich woman and enjoy a life of leisure. But the wife comes back as a vengeful ghost and the bad end unhappily as they should.Read More »

Pop art documentary faeturing ‘Koe-chan’. She is an idol shop clerk of the large manga shop ‘Mandarake’, popular for her ‘costume-play’.Read More »

A seventeen-year-old high school student, Fusae Nishikawa, while observing a physical education class at her menstruation class, steals her classmate Eiko Takanashi’s wallet on a whim. An anonymous love letter found in the wallet becomes a rumor among the students. Eiko is in love with an upperclassman, Kaoru Mitani. However, Kaoru’s heart has recently moved on to college student Nitta.Read More »