After seeing her father being murdered over a game of dice, Yukiko decides to take revenge. Read More »
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Cat Girls Gamblers: Naked Flesh Paid Into the Pot AKA Toba no mesu neko: Suhada no tsubo furi (1965) Hiroshi Noguchi, Yumiko Nogawa, Hideaki Nitani, Tatsuya Fuji
Yukiko has taken up residence as a masseuse with some thiveing on the side Read More »
Take Care, Red Riding Hood AKA Akazukinchan kiotsukete (1970) Shirô Moritani, Yûsuke Okada, Akira Nakao, Ayako Hôshô
Tokyo, February 9th, 1969. Kaoru is a high school graduate from a rich family. His brothers are all law graduates of the prestigious University of Tokyo Read More »
Wedding Ring AKA Konyaku yubiwa (1950) Keisuke Kinoshita, Jûkichi Uno, Kinuyo Tanaka, Toshirô Mifune
Two of Japan’s finest actors, Kinuyo Tanaka and Toshiro Mifune, come together in this touching seaside melodrama Read More »
Hogaraka ni ayume AKA Walk Cheerfully (1930) Yasujirô Ozu, Minoru Takada, Hiroko Kawasaki, Satoko Date
Kenji is a small thief who likes drinking and fighting. When he falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue Read More »
Yuki ni negau koto AKA What the Snow Brings (2005) Kichitaro Negishi, Yûsuke Iseya, Kôichi Satô, Kyôko Koizumi
Following a tip, Manabu Yazaki loses his last money betting on the older “banba” horse “Unryu” Read More »
Yami no kodomo-tachi AKA Children of the Dark (2008) Junji Sakamoto, Yôsuke Eguchi, Aoi Miyazaki, Satoshi Tsumabuki
A Middle-aged Japanese ex-pat journalist investigates child organ trafficking in Thailand and he uncovers a sinister network. Read More »
Nippon no kuroi natsu – Enzai AKA Darkness in the Light (2001) Kei Kumai, Kiichi Nakai, Akira Terao, Naomi Hosokawa
A middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture) Read More »
Eddoko bugyo tenka o kiru otoko AKA An Edo Magistrate (1961) Kinnosuke Nakamura, Sasaki Yasushi, Kusuo Abe, Harue Akagi, Koji Arima
When a former artisan is tricked into putting his sister up as collateral for a loan by a gangster boss Read More »
Okasareta hakui AKA Violated Angels (1967) Kôji Wakamatsu, Juro Kara, Keiko Koyanagi, Miki Hayashi
A young man breaks into a nurse’s rooming house and one-by-one kills off nurses. Read More »
Kiri-no-hata AKA Sweet Revenge (1977) Katsumi Nishikawa, Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Rentarô Mikuni
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. Read More »
Kunoichi ninpô-chô: Yagyû gaiden AKA Kunoichi: Lady Ninja (1998) Hitoshi Ozawa, Yûko Moriyama, Kazuki Takeda, Momoka Saeki
Yuko Moriyama stars in this ninja period piece as one of seven women determined Read More »
Yotsuya Kaidan (1956) Masaki Môri, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Akemi Tsukushi, Chieko Sôma
Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. Read More »
Blue Rain Osaka (1983) Masaru Konuma, Kiriko Shimizu, Saeko Kuga, Ryûmei Azuma
From director Masaru Konuma comes this tale of sorrow and nostalgia mixed with pop songs and feminine strength. Read More »
Gokuaku bozu – Nomu utsu kau AKA Wicked Priest 5: Breaking the Commandments (1971) Buichi Saitô, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Bunta Sugawara, Takashi Shimura
As the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a village headman fighting corruption from up above. Read More »