Skip to Content

Blog Archives

Floating Weeds

  The head of a Japanese theater troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up Read More

Eureka

  One hot summer morning, a bus is hijacked. In the carnage only three people survive: the driver, Makoto, a school girl, Kozue, and her brother, Naoki. Suffering from trauma, Read More

Equinox Flower

  Loving father Wataru (Shin Saburi) is devastated when his daughter Setsuko (Ineko Arima) upends both familial and social conventions by foregoing arranged marriage and choosing her own spouse. Wataru, Read More

Why Not?

  In 1867 Japan at the end of the shogunate, the samurai and nobles struggle to retain dominance, while the peasants begin a rise to power.  Near the turbulent end of Read More

Dodes’ka-den

  A group of impoverished misfits inhabiting a Japanese landfill have experiences that are alternately joyful and disheartening. Young, disabled Roku-chan (Yoshitaka Zushi) spends his days in a fantasy world Read More

Drunken Angel

  The chaotic worlds of the Japanese Mafia (Yakuza) and an alcoholic doctor collide in this film noir classic from Akira Kurosawa. Gangster Toshiro Mifune visits doctor Takashi Shimura, after Read More

The Castle of Sand

  Two detectives are assigned to investigate the murder of a 60-year-old policeman at the Tokyo Railway Station.  The victim is well-liked and benevolent and there does not seem to Read More

The Castle of Cagliostro

  In this animated feature, Arsene Lupin III, the world’s most daring thief, pulls off a heist at a Monte Carlo casino. But, when he discovers his haul is nothing Read More

The Bad Sleep Well

  In this loose adaptation of “Hamlet,” illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi (Toshirô Mifune) climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter (Kyôko Kagawa) of Read More

The Crucified Lovers

  In 17th-century Japan, Ishun (Eitaro Shindo) flourishes in business but remains stingy and cruel, often mistreating his wife, Osan (Kyoko Kagawa). When her bumbling brother desperately needs money, Osan Read More