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Actors: Yoji Matsuda, Shijaku Katsura, Hideo Murota, Eri Misawa, Kyoko Enami
Synopsis: Ichiro Kure (Yoji Matsuda) emerges from a coma to find himself in a psychiatric hospital. One doctor tells Ichiro that he is hospitalized because he has murdered his mother and his wife and explains his condition is inherited from a mad painter who lived over 1,000 years ago. Time moves forward Read More
Actors: Yumi Takigawa, Emiko Yamauchi, Fumio Watanabe, Yoko Mihara
Synopsis: A young Japanese woman in search of her missing mother discovers a sinister secret deep within the Sacred Heart Convent in director Noribumi Suzuki's notorious nun-exploitation classic. After taking religious vows to gain entry into the convent where her mother was last seen, Yumi Takigawa Read More
Synopsis: Satori is the name of the demon in this Japanese film. Ironically, it's name sounds the same as the word used for enlightenment experiences in the Zen tradition. Even more ironically, the demon strikes at people who are in a state devoid of thought or feeling. This is ironic because many people Read More
Actors: Meiko Kaji, Kayoko Shiraishi, Fumio Watanabe
Synopsis: The second in a series of exploitation films based on a Japanese adult manga magazine, this over-the-top jailbreak movie pits the silent-but-deadly Scorpion (Meiko Kaji) against a sadistic warden and other adversaries. As the film begins, Scorpion is shackled in an underground solitary confinement Read More
Actors: Mariko Kaga, Fumio Watanabe
Synopsis: This Japanese allegory comments upon societal values in modern urban Asia. It begins as a small boy catches a rare butterfly and races to bring it to his beloved teacher. Unfortunately, the teacher accuses him of lying because that species does not occur in their area. The crushed child, not Read More
Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsuro Tamba, Shoichi Ozawa, Kiwako Taichi, Fumio Watanabe
Synopsis: Masahiro Shinoda directed this sexy, darkly humorous look at Tokyo's red-light Edo district in 1842, focusing on three characters whose lives intersect. Soshun (Tetsuro Tamba) is the infamous fugitive Buraikan in disguise, Naojiro (Tatsuya Nakadai) is a shiftless lout who dreams of being a Kabuki Read More
Actors: Akiko Koyama
Synopsis: A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles. After suffering an injury during the war, the father believes he is an invalid. He and his wife have a 10-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl. The adults pretend to be injured by autos in crowded traffic Read More
Synopsis: After students prankishly steal the clothes of two people swimming nude in the ocean, the swimmers return to land and wander around au naturel. They are assumed to be Korean illegal immigrants, and are chased and hounded. This comedy takes a rare look at Japanese racism. ~ Clarke Fountain Read More
Actors: Kei Sato, Fumio Watanabe, Toshiro Ishido, Masao Adachi, Hosei Komatsu
Synopsis: This sad tale, based on a true story of a Japanese-born Korean student who raped and killed two girls in 1958 and was then hanged in 1963 when he reached maturity, is turned by director Nagisa Oshima into a black farce reminiscent of the darkly satirical, anti-authoritarian films of Luis Buñuel. Read More
Actors: Kei Sato, Hideo Kanze, Fumio Watanabe
Synopsis: Director Nagisa Oshima teams with comic-strip artist Shirato Sampei in this feature. Still pictures are used as some of Japan's more recognizable thespians provide the voices to tell the story. The ninja warriors use their powers to become invisible, walk on water, and climb castle walls. ~ Dan Read More
Actors: Kei Sato, Saeda Kawaguchi, Akiko Koyama, Mutsuhiro Toura
Synopsis: The unstable social milieu of postwar Japan is brought into play in Violence at Noon. Two young women, whose lives are far from blissful, are raped by an equally disenfranchised assailant. Director Nagisa Oshima seems to argue that it is the horrid living conditions endured by the rapist and his Read More
Synopsis: Director Nagisa Oshima's film uses the "pink" genre to mask an allegory about the materialism of post-war Japan (the original title translates as "Indulgence"). Katsuo Nakamura stars as a man blackmailed by a thief, who makes him hold on to some stolen loot while the thief serves a jail sentence. Read More
Actors: Yasuke Kawazu, Shima Iwashita
Actors: Yasuke Kawazu, Miyuki Kuwano, Yoshiko Kuga, Fumio Watanabe, Shinji Tanaka
Synopsis: Nagisa Oshima's groundbreaking film opens with young, attractive Mako and her friend hitching a ride from an old man. After her friend leaves, the man tries to rape her, and she is saved only by the handsome Kiyoshi. Later, against the background of the tumultuous 1960 U.S./Japan Security Treaty Read More
Actors: Fumio Watanabe, Miyuki Kuwano
Synopsis: Widely regarded as the most personal of director Nagisa Oshima's three 1960 films, Night and Fog in Japan centers around a gathering of former student activists, all of which protested the signing of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty. Preferring to let go of the past, the old protestors had regrouped Read More
Actors: Masahiko Tsugawa, Yasuke Kawazu
Synopsis: The epidemic of juvenile delinquency in the mean streets of a Tokyo slum is depicted in this sordid story of sex and violence. The group is dwindled by suicide, murder, gang warfare and accidents as they engage in arson and gunplay. Plagued by drug and alcohol problems, the members of the gang Read More
Actors: Nobuo Nakamura
Synopsis: Director Yasujiro Ozu (1903-63) was famous for dramas which focused tightly on the character of family members and friends making sacrifices for one another's happiness. In Akibiyori, a still-beautiful widow has a daughter who is sufficiently past the favored age for marriage to be in danger of Read More
Actors: Shinji Nambara, Fumio Watanabe, Shuji Sano
Synopsis: An essentially religious film about a young, self-sacrificing Catholic devotee, this true story by director Heinosuke Gosho might be too slow in the telling for most Western audiences. Maria Isabel Kitahara was converted to Catholicism by Basque nuns. After her conversion, she took on the task of Read More
Actors: Shin Saburi
Synopsis: Equinox Flower (Higanbana) is one of the most lighthearted of Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu's "home dramas." Motivating the plot is a young girl's impulsive decision to marry. The girl's father had always expected that his daughter would first ask his permission to be wed, and indeed wait until Read More
Actors: Ineko Arima, Tatsuya Nakadai, Fumio Watanabe
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