Movie List for "japanese 2"

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.

Three years after his first two documentaries on these soldiers who did not return, Imamura invites one of the interviewees, settled in Thailand, to return to Japan. Year 1973.

An angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin’s residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal. Year 1987.

After the death of the Father , His family are gathered to share Inheritances , but suddenly a woman with a mysterious masked man arrive there , claiming to be the other wife of the man … Year 1976.

In post-War Japan, a boy from a noodle store-owning family befriends a neighboring boy living in poverty. Year 1981.