A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun Takeda.Read More »
Rentarô Mikuni
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Tomu Uchida – Mori to mizuumi no matsuri AKA The Outsiders (1958) (HD)
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Takumi Furukawa – Jigoku no yôjimbô AKA Bodyguard from Hell (1955)
1951-1960CrimeDramaJapanTakumi Furukawa
Set in the cosmopolitan city of Yokohama, this social drama depicts drug trafficking and its addictive effects, a serious social problem, with a documentary touch.Read More »
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Eizô Sugawa – Hotaru-gawa AKA River of Fireflies (1987)
1981-1990DramaEizô SugawaJapan
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THE BOY SEES THE FATE OF MEN. THE GIRL KNOWS HOW WOMEN’S LIVES ARE.During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his upcoming high school examinations. When he was little, he and Eiko had heard that in April of a year when the winter has been very harsh, any couple finding fireflies together needs to get married. However, his family’s situation does not allow Tatsuo to continue his worrying about such things for very much longer.Read More »
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Kô Nakahira – Bitoku no yoromeki (1957)
1951-1960DramaJapanKô Nakahira
A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage. Based on a Yukio Mishima novel.Read More »
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Tadashi Imai – Yoru no tsuzumi AKA Night Drum (1958)
1951-1960ArthouseDramaJapanTadashi Imai
When a married woman has an affair with a young musician, feudal Japanese law requires that both offenders pay with their lives. However, the woman’s husband blames himself for his wife’s straying and attempts to thwart the law demanding capital punishment.Read More »
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Mikio Naruse – Tsuma AKA Wife (1953)
1951-1960AsianDramaJapanMikio Naruse
A wife decides to take desperate measures to try and hold her decade-old marriage together, including foresaking her accepted obligations.Read More »
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Shinji Sômai – Sailor-fuku to kikanju AKA Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981)
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Satsuo Yamamoto – Nippon dorobô monogatari AKA Tale of Japanese Burglars (1965)
1961-1970AsianDramaJapanSatsuo Yamamoto
Hayashida Gisuke is illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during the burglary he becomes a witness of derailment. Later some commies were found guilty in this incident, but he know it wasn’t they. He can save innocent people but for that he must confess his own crime.Read More »
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Minoru Shibuya – Honjitsu kyûshin AKA Doctor’s Day Off (1952)
1951-1960DramaJapanMinoru Shibuya
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Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a man just back from the war front visits the doctor with a medical emergency, followed by a woman who claims to have been molested. Then a yakuza arrives to ask the doctor to cut his finger off…Read More »
