The Pirates of Bubuan

Imamura reveals remote and impoverished islands in the Philippines to be the home of rival factions of pirates in this absorbing investigation into a little-known way of life. (Source: Icarus Films)

Hatoko no Umi

6.0

The 14th NHK Asadora. Starring Mihoko Fujita as a woman who lost her memory after experiencing the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Bara Kaikyo

Toshio Kawashima, a surgeon at a university hospital who also serves as an assistant professor at the University School of Medicine, is elected mayor in a way that succeeds his father-in-law, who has fallen ill. However,…

Watashi wa Umi

10.0

The 22nd NHK Asadora. Starring Tomoko Aihara. About a woman raising war orphans.

Saikai no Umi

6.0

Emerarudo no Umi ga Nikui

Kumiko, a seamstress, works in a boutique. But everyone keeps telling her that she can do better. One day, a woman witnesses a murder, but the crime makes her dream come true, and it helps her, to become owner of the…

Kyoshoku no Umi

A film adaptation (funded by Ken Togo) based on an expose book by a person involved in the Japanese entertainment industry of the time. The book describes among other things the drug-fueled parties, orgies of the entertainment…

Farewell to the Channel

A young man is pulled into crime and then murder. He falls in love with a beautiful young prostitute who sells herself to a brothel to pay off his debts. When the young man tries to buy her contract from the brothel…