Movie List for "japanese 2"

A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan. Year 1959.

An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo’s red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws. Year 1970.

A tragic social drama set in post war Japan and concerns a lonely woman trying to find purpose and stability in a devastated Tokyo. Year 1955.

A girl who had left her home village for life in Tokyo returns to her home years later, and evokes a scandal when the locals discover that she’s a stripper. Year 1951.

The Wife of Seishû Hanaoka is set in feudal Japan. Its two central characters are based on the wife and mother of Japanese physician Seishû Hanaoka (1760-1835). Hanaoka developed a herbal general anesthetic, “Tsusensan”, some forty y Year 1967.

A young blind girl is abandoned by her mother. When her guardian is killed, she learns to wield a sword from a traveling “Ronin”. She travels to seek her mother and her revenge. Year 1969.

Naga Bonar is a pickpocket. During the withdrawal of the Japanese occupying forces from Indonesia in 1945 he declares himself a general of the Liberation Forces. Soon a mask becomes his true self, and he becomes a true soldier and pa Year 1987.

A woman narrates the contemplative writings of a seasoned world traveler, focusing on contemporary Japan. Year 1983.

An angst-ridden teen dealing with his dysfunctional family hits the streets. The story is inter-cut with various psychedelic, energetic vignettes. Year 1971.

The lives of three movie actresses unfold, transform and get exposed. Each of them owes their choice of profession to a respective traumatic event. Year 1971.

Period drama set in the 1950’s about a couple isolating themselves from the outside world as they attempt to salvage their faltering marriage, no matter what the costs, after the husband has an affair. Year 1990.

During the violent chaos of post-War Japanese black market, a young gangster called Shozo Hirono has to keep up with the rapid shifts of power between unscrupulous bosses. Year 1973.

The personal tales of various prostitutes who occupy a brothel. Year 1956.

In the middle of a fierce commercial competition between three caramel companies, an executive builds up a ditsy teenage girl as a mascot while simultaneously trying to uncover the rival companies’ plans. Year 1958.

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. Year 1974.

A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through three decades of bitter conflict which engulfs their children and those around them. Year 1961.