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
Posted on July 30, 2018
Beautiful to behold and impossible to forget, The Pillow Book is auteur Peter Greenaway’s erotically-charged homage to the art of calligraphy and the indelible nature of even our earliest Read More
Posted on July 30, 2018
The film follows Mima Kirigoe, a member of a Japanese idol group, who retires from music to pursue an acting career. As she becomes a victim of stalking, gruesome Read More
Posted on July 27, 2018
One of the greatest action-adventure films ever made, The Hidden Fortress stands alongside the finest achievements of its creator—Japanese film master Akira Kurosawa. Produced in 1958, this thrilling Cinemascope Read More
Posted on July 27, 2018
After people die, they spend a week with counselors, also dead, who help them pick one memory, the only memory they can take to eternity. They describe the memory Read More
