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Seijun Suzuki – Aoi Chibusa AKA Young Breasts (1958)
Young Breasts AKA Blue Breasts is a 1958 Japanese juvenile delinquent film directed by Seijun Suzuki for the Nikkatsu Corporation. Akira Kobayashi stars as a young hoodlum who tries to go straight...
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Tsui Hark – Ching Se AKA Green Snake (1993)
Two snakes reformed into two beauties. White Snake chose pedagogue Xian Xu as her husband and enjoyed human life, while Green Snake played around every day. Jealous to White Snake, Green Snake kept on...
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Yutaka Abe – Sasameyuki AKA The Makioka Sisters (1950)
This is the first of three major film adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki’s famous novel from the 1940s, the second one being the 11959 version directed by Koji Shima, the third one being Kon Ichikawa’s...
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Su-chang Kong – Arpointeu AKA R-Point (2004)
During the Vietnamese war a Korean military base receives a distress transmission from one of their units stationed at a strategically important location known as R-point. The grim message relays that...
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Tai Katô – Tange Sazen: Kenun Unkon no maki aka Tange Sazen: Scroll of Dragon...
Tange Sazen was at first, the character in Fubo Hayashi’s novel. Director Ito Daisuke made this one-armed, one-eyed man an nihilistic, alienated hero, representing the anarchic energy and rebellious...
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Kihachi Okamoto – Dobunezumi sakusen aka Operation Sewer Rats (1962)
Very entertaining Kihachi Okamoto feature, and while it is a WWII film, it is also a tribute to John Ford’s Westerns, set in Manchuria. In addition to the regulars in the series, a fine performance by...
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Yasuo Furuhata – Tasumania monogatari aka Tasmania Story (1990)
Eiji Kawano (Kunie Tanaka) has recently broken from the Japanese company he used to work for. As an immigrant to Tasmania, he has been won over by the island’s immense natural beauty, and he is...
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Yasuzô Masumura – Senba zuru AKA Thousand Cranes (1969)
Synopsis: In adapting Kawabata’s famous novel about the entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father’s life, Masumura subverts the literary genre...
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Kôji Wakamatsu – Jokei: Gokinsei hyakunen AKA. Torture Chronicles 2: Another...
Another rare Wakamatsu for y’all…..this time from his late 70s shintoho roughies/torture era. A sort of sequel to Torture Chronicles: 100 Years of Torture Inquisition, and much along the same lines as...
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Keisuke Kinoshita – Shito no densetsu AKA A Legend or Was It? (1963)
A young woman fends off a series of aggressive marriage proposals from a man who committed atrocities during World War II. Quote: Using a sort of reverse aesthetic structure to that of Otto...
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Keisuke Kinoshita – Nogiku no gotoki kimi nariki aka She Was Like a Wild...
Criterion’s title for this film is “You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum.” From the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s “Films of Keisuke Kinoshita” program notes: Quote: Masao (Ozu regular Chishu Ryu)...
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Shirô Moritani – Kaikyô AKA The Longest Tunnel (1982)
Quote: In 1954, Go Akuzu (Ken Takakura) travels to the Tsuruga Straits that separate Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido from the main island of Honshu, to investigate the tragic loss of a...
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Chui Mui Tan – Love Conquers All (2006)
Quote: Like that famous saying, Tan Chui Mui speaks softly, but she carries a big stick. Her films are quiet little affairs, but boy, do they pack an emotional wallop. She has a knack for easing you...
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Satsuo Yamamoto – Nippon dorobô monogatari AKA Tale of Japanese Burglars (1965)
Hayashida Gisuke is illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during the burglary he becomes a witness of derailment. Later some commies were found guilty in this incident, but...
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Tokuzô Tanaka – Rikugun Nakano gakko: Ryu-sango shirei (1967)
letterboxd: In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidaka to inaugurate negotiations. He was mysteriously assassinated, however, when his car...
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Shigemichi Sugita – Yushun AKA Oracion (1988)
Oracion is a racehorse purchased by a businessman in financial trouble. He believes the horse will win the upcoming Japan Derby and solve his monetary woes. Oracion.1988.DVDRip.mkvGeneralContainer:...
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