Movie List for "japanese 2"

A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader’s son, but her siblings disapprove, which eventually leads to a violent tragedy. Year 1963.

In the fourth installment, Musashi’s potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. As his great love Otsu has succumbed to madness. Musashi then sets off to beat the f Year 1964.

Nothing less than a phenomenal, astonishing and pioneering film. This spectacle of an angry, ego-driven youth tormented by his own emotional impotence, low self-esteem and resentment towards his parents. Year 1956.

Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attempts to seize power from the boss, and Miyoshi finds himself stuck between the two fa Year 1974.

The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. Year 1981.

Warrior and pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet. Year 1984.

A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food. Year 1985.

Documentary – (The interviewer is an Asian male director, Shohei Imamura.) Interview with Kikuyo Zendo, a 73 year-old, Japanese, trafficked-in-1921, prostitute (karayuki-san) who spent the longer part of her life outside Japan in Mal Year 1975.

After a bombing raid destroys the family store and her husband, Reiko rebuilds and runs the shop out of love stopped short by destruction. Year 1964.

A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master. Year 1995.

A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring birthmark on his face. Even the courtesans in Yoshiwara refuse to entertain him, unt Year 1960.

American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable, dinosaur-like beast. Year 1954.

A master gambler loses his memory, and is befriended by a street hustler who discovers his supernatural gambling abilities. Year 1989.

After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks. Year 1998.

A schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt’s country home, which turns out to be haunted. Year 1977.

Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines. Year 1958.