Japanese

Dream Island Girl is a visual poem about the loss of humanity in the age of material civilization. The plot is an illusion. Like in a dream, the emotional narrative tells the story.Read More »

Original title: 無名の人生
A man’s journey through life, marked by various names and labels, leads him to unexpected success while confronting modern social issues and personal struggles along the way.Read More »

Mayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss
– basically a prostitute who services men in Turkish baths –
whose plans to get rich in the stock market, open a beauty salon, and marry her sweetie,
are turned upside down by the arrival of her boyfriend-stealing half sister Mako Midori.Read More »

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Ryosuke Fujimura, an immoral man who has committed every crime except murder, is suddenly attacked by his old robbers, Ohno and Kojima, in front of the prison gate on the day he is released from prison for the umpteenth time for marriage. . The two planned to get revenge on Fujimura, who ran away with a large amount of stolen money. However, Fujimura successfully threw them away and gave them a shot. He jumped on the train that just happened to arrive. He discovers a man who looks just like him who was sitting with the big star Reiko Otsuki, and attacks the man as he falls asleep and changes his clothes. Read More »

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Takei Goro leaves the gang to quit the yakuza world, but the gang won’t allow it and relentlessly pursues Takei. This is Watari Tetsuya’s first film to star in Shochiku.Read More »

Synopsis
The simple and honest elementary school principal Taiga (Iwata) was at a loss after the school’s donation money was stolen. At that time, he found a bag containing a large sum of money and hid it at home, intending to use it for the school. His wife, who happened to discover it, took the blame upon herself and committed suicide together with their beloved child. Grief-stricken, Taiga resigned from his position and moved to Oshima, seeking to detach himself from the world. Yet life there became nothing but days drowned in alcohol…Read More »

Two former design school classmates, 21-year-old office worker Kyoko and illustrator Jiro, run into each other on the street and soon begin living together. With great care for their feelings, the two embark on a genuine love affair, expressed through their taboo and tension-filled cohabitation. Whilst hurting each other, they continue to explore the boundaries of their relationship in this boldly controversial film.Read More »

Synopsis:
Tetsu Kazama, a senior member of the Nishio clan (Yakuza clan) kills Yoshie, the head of the hostile yakuza clan. When Tetsu is released from prison, he learns that Nishio clan has dissolved and Nishio clan’s old territory is now controlled by the Hirata clan.Read More »

With the same visual flair used in his distinctive yakuza films, director Kinji Fukasaku (The Yakuza Papers) tells the riveting story of five kids who come to Tokyo for work in If You Were Young: Rage.

In the 1960s, Japanese teens were often sent from rural areas to Tokyo and other major cities, helping to fuel Japan’s rapid economic development. Fukasaku shows the shocking consequences for idealistic youths whose dreams are soon torn apart in a chaos of class turmoil and youthful indiscretion.Read More »