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Harakiri
Japanese Movie - 19628.3
An elder ronin samurai arrives at a feudal lord's home and requests an honorable place to commit suicide. But when the ronin inquires about a younger samurai who arrived before him things take an unexpected turn. (Source:…
Woman in the Dunes
Japanese Movie - 19647.8
An amateur entomologist searching for insects by the sea is trapped by local villagers into living with a mysterious woman who spends almost all her time preventing her home from being swallowed up by advancing sand…
In the Realm of the Senses
Japanese Movie - 19766.7
In 1936 Tokyo, Abe Sada is a former prostitute who now works as a maid in a hotel. The hotel's owner, Ishida Kichizo, molests her, and the two begin an intense affair that consists of sexual experiments and various self-indulgences.…
Kwaidan
Japanese Movie - 19647.7
Kwaidan features four nightmarish tales in which terror thrives and demons lurk. Adapted from traditional Japanese ghost stories, this lavish, widescreen production drew extensively on Kobayashi’s own training as a…
Funeral Parade of Roses
Japanese Movie - 19697.8
It takes a look at Japanese gay culture in the 60’s Tokyo and is unrelenting in its depiction. Using styles borrowed from documentaries and avant-garde experiments alike, this certainly isn’t one to miss. The plot…
Onibaba
Japanese Movie - 19647.5
Deep within the wind-swept marshes of war-torn medieval Japan, an impoverished mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a lonely, desperate existence. Forced to murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for grain,…
The Face of Another
Japanese Movie - 19667.8
We meet Okuyama who had accident in the factory and burnt his face. He gets an opportunity to have a lifelike mask. What he'll do when he got a chance to have a normal life again? ~~ Adapted from the novel “The Face…
The Naked Island
Japanese Movie - 19607.6
Deals with the intolerably hard life of a family of four, the only inhabitants of a very small Japanese island in the Setonaikai archipelago. Several times a day they row over to the neighboring island to fetch water…
Double Suicide
Japanese Movie - 19697.5
In 18th Century in Japan, the paper merchant Jihei falls in love for the courtesan Koharu but he can not afford to redeem her from her master and owner of the brothel, since he spent all his money in the place with Koharu.…
Susaki Paradise - Red Light District
Japanese Movie - 19567.4
A jobless young couple, Yoshiji and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job pouring sake for male customers at a small bar run by a sympathetic older…
The Catch
Japanese Movie - 19617.0
Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their "catch". (Source: IMDb)
A Story Written with Water
Japanese Movie - 19657.7
A young man who's about to marry is torn between his fiancée and the love for his mother. His past, dreams, and desires unfold simultaneously.
Kaigenrei
Japanese Movie - 19738.1
While the ultra-nationalist military coup d'etat is a study of preparation movie shows the life of its head Ikki Kita.
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…
She and He
Japanese Movie - 19637.9
A middle-class woman in Tokyo, Ishikawa Naoko lives with her husband in a shining new apartment building on a hill overlooking a slum. As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as a businessman, Naoko…
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
Japanese Movie - 19747.8
A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.
A Man Vanishes
Japanese Movie - 19677.7
Plastics salesman Oshima disappeared without a word to anyone and has been missing for two years. Shohei Imamura and his crew follow Oshima's fiancé Yoshie and actor Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as they investigate the disappearance.…
Eros + Massacre
Japanese Movie - 19697.7
The film is a biography of anarchist Sakae Ōsugi, who was assassinated by the Japanese military in 1923. The story tells of his relationship with three women: Hori Yasuko, his wife; Noe Itō, his third lover, who was…
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
Japanese Movie - 19717.7
The movie follows a young man's disillusionment with the world around him and his determination to achieve something in life while his family members are content with their poor social and economic standing.
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