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Actors: Masahiko Tsugawa, Ayumi Ishida, Scott Wilson, Ronny Cox, Suresh Oberoi
Synopsis: Few films made in Japan have created such international outrage as Shunya Ito's Pride -- an affectionate biopic on that country's most notorious prime minister, Hideki Tojo, who was hanged in 1948 during the Tokyo trials for war crimes. Funded by renown ultra right-wing investors, this film struck Read More
Actors: Ken Ogata, Ayumi Ishida, Mieko Harada, Keiko Matsuzaka
Synopsis: This drama is based on the experiences of celebrated novelist Kazuo Dan. Kazuo Katsura (Ken Ogata) is a writer, with a wife and six children, who indulges in booze and extra-marital affairs. When he takes the flighty actress Keiko (Mieko Harada) as his mistress, Kazuo's long-suffering wife Yoriko (Ayumi Ishida Read More
Actors: Ken Takakura, Ayumi Ishida, Nobuko Otowa, Yuko Tanaka
Synopsis: In an emotional and dramatic -- if not melodramatic accounting of a former Japanese gang member, some of the traits of the yakuza, or Japanese Mafia, are brought forward. Shuji (Ken Takakura) has taken the bold step of leaving his yakuza clan behind to start a new life in a small fishing village. Read More
Actors: Ayumi Ishida, Noriko Watanabe, Ryuzo Hayashi
Synopsis: If Western nations had the juvenile delinquency depicted in this Japanese film about a delinquent teen, they would be grateful. The teen does not do drugs or alcohol, she does not murder school children with her parents' rifles, she is not promiscuous, she does not commit armed robbery or belong Read More
Actors: Ken Ogata, Ayumi Ishida, Shigeru Izumiya, Mikio Narita, Kaoru Kobayashi
Synopsis: Detective Seiji Otaki (Ken Ogata) is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was ostensibly a student but in reality a high-priced prostitute. Even though he has been taken off the case for beating up a suspect, he refuses to let it go and recruits his mistress to act as a Read More
Actors: Ken Takakura, Chieko Baisho, Ayumi Ishida, Setsuko Karasuma, Yuko Kotegawa
Synopsis: The infamous "Criminal 22" is at large in Tokyo. This is a vicious, sadistic murderer who takes special delight in "offing" cops. Detective Ken Takakura makes it his mission in life to wipe Criminal 22 from the face of the earth. If The Station plays like an American crime-and-punishment picture Read More
Actors: Tomokazu Miura, Ayumi Ishida, Junko Miyashita, Tomisaburo Wakayama
Synopsis: Pathos and irony nuance this drama by director Tatsumi Kamishiro about the relationship between a young man and an adoptive father-figure. Akira Tagawa's (Tomokazu Miura) father has been imprisoned for a murder he did not commit. The devoted Akira wants to free him even though the man is an Read More
Synopsis: This is a badly re-edited and "Americanized" version of a popular Japanese disaster movie, The Submersion of Japan (1973). The trouble begins when scientists learn that Japan's islands are sinking and must be evacuated within two years. The story chronicles the ways in which various people react Read More
Synopsis: In this Japanese melodrama, a youthful truck driver does all he can to keep away from hospitals and physicians. Then he meets a pretty nurse while visiting an ailing friend. Later, following a traffic accident, he reluctantly undergoes a check up and must reveal that he has terminal leukemia. The Read More
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