Movie List for "japanese 2"

Chronological exploits of Iwao Enokizu, a murderous thief on the run. Year 1979.

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father’s condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her. Year 1964.

A pop singer gives up her career to become an actress, but she slowly goes insane when she starts being stalked by an obsessed fan and what seems to be a ghost of her past. Year 1997.

A dashing thief, his gang of desperadoes and an intrepid policeman struggle to free a princess from an evil count’s clutches, and learn the hidden secret to a fabulous treasure that she holds part of a key to. Year 1979.

His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan’s military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival. Year 1961.

A violence prone police officer discovers that his colleague is trafficking drugs. Year 1989.

During World War II, a Japanese soldier finds himself assigned to a kamikaze mission against a U.S. battleship. Year 1968.

In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family. Year 1957.

The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an isolated inn (the one that the title refers to), the head-quarters of a group of smuggler Year 1971.

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong persona Year 1957.

A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father’s suicide. Year 1960.

A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era. Year 1957.

A real gem from Imamura. A very dark crime comedy. Year 1958.

Story of a young couple whose fathers are prison bound. Year 1957.

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by a teenager, his gang of biker friends and a group of psychics. Year 1988.

Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set. Year 1959.