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Actors: Keiko Kishi, Ryuji Harada, Shoichi Ozawa, Kanae Katsuno, Tsuyoshi Ujiki
Actors: Shohei Hino, Shima Iwashita
Synopsis: This satirical spin on the ninja genre from veteran director Masahiro Shinoda opens in 1581 with the invasion of Iga, a "hidden land," by Oda, a rampaging warlord. 50,000 troops sweep through Iga -- a province already developing as a center for ninja arts -- slaughtering everyone and everything in Read More
Actors: Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura, Etsuko Ichihara, Shoichi Ozawa, Norihei Miki
Synopsis: The title refers to the radioactive fallout which descended upon ruined city of Hiroshima after the dropping of the first atomic bomb. Young bride-to-be Yoshiko Tanaka has the misfortune to be visiting Hiroshima on the day of the explosion. Incredibly, she is unhurt; she returns to her own Read More
Actors: Sumiko Sakamoto, Ken Ogata, Seiji Kurasaki, Mitsuko Baisho, Nijiko Kiyokawa
Synopsis: In this second, award-winning interpretation of a novel by Shichiro Fukazawa, director Shohei Imamura has inserted some scenes of violence and ritual sex that are shocking and were absent in the first, 1958 film. The story is set in the 19th century in a remote and severely impoverished mountain Read More
Actors: Barry Cotton, Lee Reisen, Keith Sykes
Synopsis: This fascinating Japanese drama takes an objective look at the relationship between American GIs and deserters in Japan during the Vietnam war. Many of the men went on leave to Tokyo. Some did not want to return and ended up sheltered by Japanese "host families" who would conceal them for a night. 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
Synopsis: In this Japanese melodrama, an up-and-coming office worker has an affair with his ex-lover whom he refused to marry. The woman is impoverished and in trouble after she aborted her lover's baby. It is a mutual friend who informs the young businessman, who married another for her status, of the 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
Synopsis: In this Japanese drama, two childhood friends meet and reminisce about their youth. The man and woman had been great friends until the boy's mother abandoned him, and the girl's father abandoned her. Soon the two adults find themselves in love, but unfortunately their affair is doomed as neither Read More
Actors: Shoichi Ozawa, Shoichi Yasuda
Synopsis: A young peasant woman (Michio Yasuda) is taken under the wing of a Japanese man (Shoichi Ozawa) who tries to change her into a refined and educated lady in this romantic comedy drama. The story borrows more than a little from Pygmalion and My Fair Lady. She frustrates her mentor when all she wants Read More
Actors: Shoichi Ozawa, Sumiko Sakamoto, Masaomi Kondo, Keiko Sagowa
Synopsis: A small-time purveyor of blue movies has to defend his livelihood against thieves, authorities, and his widowed girlfriend and her family in Shohei Imamura's dark satire. The Pornographers concerns the exploits of the hapless Subu (Shoichi Ozawa), an impotent (in every sense of the word) Read More
Synopsis: In this Japanese drama, a young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. First she torches her parents' villa, and then slaughters all her lascivious mother's lovers. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths Read More
Actors: Sachiko Hidari, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Hiroyuki Nagato, Seizaburo Kawazu, Kazuo Kitamura
Synopsis: The Insect Woman covers 45 years in the life of long-suffering Japanese woman Tome Matsuki, played brilliantly by Sachiko Hidari. Thrust into the cold world at age 20, the pregnant Tome takes a factory job. She gives this up for the relative comfort of the life of an American GI's mistress. Once Read More
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