Movie List for "japanese 2"

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.

A bank manager is blackmailed into robbing his own bank. Year 1960.

Five warriors challenge Ogami to duels. Each holds a part of information needed to complete the assassination of a mad clan leader. Year 1973.

Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi forms an emotional bond with her pupils and teaches them various virtues, while at the same time worrying about their future. Year 1954.

Summer 1937 Japan begins a war with China. Militaristic moods are growing in the country. A group of Japanese schoolchildren do not understand the militaristic hysteria of adults. Year 1986.

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo. Year 1953.

A community of magical shape-shifting raccoon dogs struggle to prevent their forest home from being destroyed by urban development. Year 1994.

A detailed look at a Tokyo business tycoon (played by Shin Saburi) given a diagnosis of terminal cancer who must now re-assess his life and values. Year 1974.