Posted on July 30, 2018
Ginshiro Kuraoka (Kazama) is an actor whose once-hot career is on the skids. He has planned a spectacular fight scene for his latest picture in order to one-up his Read More
Posted on July 30, 2018
At the beginning of the film the father-in-law of the protagonist dies unexpectedly of a heart attack. The remainder of the film is episodic, moving from one incident to Read More
Posted on July 30, 2018
Minoru Iizuka (also known as “Dankan”) portrays Asao, a naive and goofy man who lives with his grandfather in Saitama Prefecture. Even though Asao is 35 years old, he Read More
Posted on July 30, 2018
Go-Con is a fashionable Japanese-English word often used by young and trendy Japanese. It means hanging out in a new age matchmaking style that suits the Japanese, especially the Read More
Posted on July 30, 2018
Toshiro Mifune stars as a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a ruthless kidnapper in Akira Kurosawa’s exemplary film noir. Based on Ed McBain’s detective novel “King’s Read More
Posted on July 30, 2018
The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001), by Takashi Miike, portrays a happy family in uniquely unhappy circumstances. A loose adaptation of the Korean film The Quiet Family (1998), The Read More
Posted on July 30, 2018
Set in suburban Tokyo, DOKI-DOKI offers a peek into the lives of intimate strangers. Imagine sitting next to the same people on a commuter train every day for years Read More
Posted on July 30, 2018
Masao (Yusuke Sekiguchi) is a lonely 9-year-old boy who decides to spend his summer vacation looking for his estranged mother, whom he has never met. Kikujiro (Takeshi Kitano) is Read More
Posted on July 30, 2018
This acclaimed animated tale by director Hayao Miyazaki follows schoolgirl Satsuke and her younger sister, Mei, as they settle into an old country house with their father and wait Read More
Posted on July 30, 2018
As World War II is raging overseas, Japan’s domestic industry needs to increase its productivity. At an optics factory, the output target for male workers is increased by 100%, Read More
