Tag Archives: japanese

Based on actual events, taken from a woman doctor’s story of life in a remote leper colony. Read More »

A rare film which depicts the tragic fate of a Christian lord who fought for his fate in the Edo period. Read More »

A young lord attempts to combat the corruption endemic to the Shogunate bureaucracy Read More »

The Dai-bosatsu toge saga (a trilogy) is based on Kaizan Nakazatos unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Read More »

Intersecting circles of obligation link a former boxer, the youth he vows to make a champion Read More »

Former soldier, Suehiro Katsuji (Ken Takakura) fights violent gangs and powerful Chinese merchants during the post war period in Japan… Read More »

Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil. Read More »

Two young women and a sex date who turns out to be an alright guy. Read More »

A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Read More »

Just released from prison after serving three years for murdering a member of a rival gang Read More »

Liberated from a slave auction, Osami joins with priest Ensai on a quest to find and deliver relics of the Buddha to Osami’s brother Read More »

The story revolves around Yoko Inoue, a pregnant woman in search for a cafe that’s frequented by a Taiwanese composer whose life she is researching. Read More »

A portrait of an ordinary family that turns unstable when their frivolous son Shuji returns home after a long absence. Read More »

Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. Read More »

Two blind masseurs Toku and Fuku walk to a mountain retreat to work for the season. Read More »