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Ikebana
Japanese Movie - 19567.5
The history and art of ikebana, a centuries old Japanese art of flower arrangement and a look inside the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, where the director's father Teshigahara Sofu worked as the grand master of the school.
Branded to Kill
Japanese Movie - 19677.4
A hit-man, with a fetish for sniffing boiling rice, fumbles his latest job, putting him into conflict with his treacherous wife, with a mysterious woman eager for death and with the phantom-like hit-man known only as…
Intentions of Murder
Japanese Movie - 19647.5
The film tells the story of a dull, plump housewife living in poverty with a common-law husband. After being raped by a thief, she is repeatedly accosted by him as he falls madly in love with her. Stuck between her adulterous,…
Rengoku eroica
Japanese Movie - 19707.4
An engineer's wife returns home with a lost teenager. A man posing as her dad tries to get her back, causing the engineer to recall his youth as a revolutionary, obscured by dreamlike disruptions of time and space, fantasy…
Profound Desires of the Gods
Japanese Movie - 19687.3
Presenting a vast chronicle of life on the remote Kurage Island, the film centres on the disgraced, superstitious, interbred Futori family and the Tokyo engineer sent to supervise the creation of a new well for the Sugar…
Death by Hanging
Japanese Movie - 19687.9
It was acclaimed for its innovative Brechtian techniques and complex treatments of guilt and consciousness, justice, and the persecution of ethnic Koreans in Japan. A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but…
Vengeance Is Mine
Japanese Movie - 19797.4
While he seems ordinary at first glance, Enokizu Iwao is actually a violent murderer running from police. Leaving behind his wife, he hides out with Enokizo Kazuko, a brothel owner who desperately loves him but does…
Boy
Japanese Movie - 19697.2
The story follows the title character, Omura Toshio, across Japan, as he is forced to participate in a dangerous scam to support his dysfunctional family. Toshio's father, Omura Takeo, is an abusive, lazy veteran, who…
Pitfall
Japanese Movie - 19627.3
A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls. (Source: IMDb)
Pigs and Battleships
Japanese Movie - 19617.4
A young hoodlum decides to work for a criminal organization who is tearing itself apart.
A Wife Confesses
Japanese Movie - 19617.3
Ayako is charged with murdering her much older academic husband while climbing a mountain. Ayako was having an affair, apparently with her husband's approval, and this complicates the trial. (Source: IMDb) ~~ Adapted…
Human
Japanese Movie - 19627.3
The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate as food and water run out.
Giants and Toys
Japanese Movie - 19587.3
Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product in fierce competition with two other companies. His boss builds up Kyoko, a vivacious girl with bad teeth, as their mascot.…
The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era
Japanese Movie - 19577.3
When man- about- town Saheiji finds himself unable to pay for a bill at a brothel, he is forced to remain there to work off his debt. However he finds his wit and resourcefulness enable him to turn this situation to…
Tokyo Drifter
Japanese Movie - 19667.2
Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo is a member of a recently deactivated Yakuza gang. His boss, to whom he holds absolute loyalty, Kurata, has given up the life of crime for himself and his syndicate. Otsuka, a rival gang…
The Insect Woman
Japanese Movie - 19636.8
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower-class family in Japan in 1918. The film is a metaphor for life in Japan through the middle twentieth century, including World War II. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes,…
Émotion
Japanese Movie - 19667.2
Experimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters her counterpart, Sari, and falls in love with…a vampire? (Source: Letterboxd)
Crazed Fruit
Japanese Movie - 19567.1
In this powerful drama with comic undertones from Japan, a lazy summer by the beach develops a sinister undercurrent when the two brothers' hedonistic pursuits of alcohol and gambling are interrupted by the arrival of…
Gate of Flesh
Japanese Movie - 19647.2
Tale of post-war prostitution amongst the rubble of U.S.-occupied Tokyo. After World War II, some Tokyo prostitutes band together with a strict code: no pimps, attack any street walker who comes into our territory, defend…
Tattooed Life
Japanese Movie - 19657.3
After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother. Source: IMDb
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