SYNOPSIS:
A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yakuza gangs he’s in contact with.Read More »
Yumiko Nogawa
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Kazuo Mori – Aru koroshi ya AKA A Certain Killer (1967)
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Sadao Nakajima – Kunoichi ninpo AKA Female Ninja Magic (1964)
1961-1970ActionDramaJapanSadao Nakajima
Synopsis
In Osaka during the Edo period, ruler Sanada Yukimura was in losing position. Fearing Toyotomi’s blood descendants would end, he impregnates one Shinano female ninja with the seed of Toyotomi in hopes of continuing the bloodline.Read More » -
Seijun Suzuki – Kawachi Karumen AKA Carmen from Kawachi (1966)
Seijun Suzuki1961-1970ComedyDramaJapan
Kawachi Karumen (1966) ‘Carmen from Kawachi brings the nihilist Suzuki universe to a woman’s life in the decidedly unsentimental education of a provincial factory worker, Tsuyuko, whose rape by two fellow villagers starts her on the road to sexual awareness and finally, independence. It is a long, picaresque road indeed, meandering from Osaka’s Club Dada, through liaisons with a millionaire, a dominatrix, and an action painter–all the while cohabiting with a degenerate if loving roué. The determining encounter is with a corrupt monk, whose sordid affair with her mother had been for Tsuyuko a primal introduction to sexual hypocrisy and male brutality.’Read More »
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Seijun Suzuki – Kawachi Karumen AKA Carmen from Kawachi (1966)
1961-1970ComedyDramaJapanSeijun Suzuki
Synopsis:
‘Carmen from Kawachi brings the nihilist Suzuki universe to a woman’s life in the decidedly unsentimental education of a provincial factory worker, Tsuyuko, whose rape by two fellow villagers starts her on the road to sexual awareness and finally, independence. It is a long, picaresque road indeed, meandering from Osaka’s Club Dada, through liaisons with a millionaire, a dominatrix, and an action painter–all the while cohabiting with a degenerate if loving roué. The determining encounter is with a corrupt monk, whose sordid affair with her mother had been for Tsuyuko a primal introduction to sexual hypocrisy and male brutality.’
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Nagisa Ôshima – Etsuraku AKA Pleasure of the Flesh (1965)
1961-1970AsianDramaJapanNagisa Oshima
After killing a man that raped one of his students, teacher Wakizaka finds himself embroiled in a plot being blackmailed into looking after a huge amount of cash. With tensions mounting and anxiety setting in, Wakizaka decides to spend the money, knowing the consequences of his actions will be of the most dire kind.Read More »