In the former fishing village she grew up in the beautiful Isako (Kyoko Enami) arrives from Shinjuku with her youthful lover, a fugitive Yakuza named Tetsuo (Akira Oda). He finds it hard to adjust in this desolate place until he strikes up a friendship with a young blind girl named Yuki (Mihoko Nakagawa). But Isako finds herself beset by a … Read the rest
Month: August 2018
0.5mm (Momoko Ando, Japan, 2014)
When home carer Sawa’s (Sakura Ando) employer requests her to sleep with her dying father she agrees but the result proves a disaster in more ways than one. Finding herself homeless Sawa accosts a series of lonely, elderly men ranging from karaoke bar resident Yasuo (Tatsuo Inoue), grumpy car mechanic Shigeru (Toshio Sakata) and retired academic Professor Makabe (Masahiko Tsugawa). … Read the rest
Orochi (Buntaro Futagara, Japan, 1925)
In 18th century Japan honourable samurai Heizaburo’s (Bando Tsumasaburo) attempts to do the right thing are persistently misunderstood and he ends up arrested. Losing the love of the two women in his life, Namie (Utako Tamaki) and waitress Ochio (Shizuko Mori) and shunned by the townspeople for an undeserved reputation as a criminal Heizaburo’s good nature is further exploited by … Read the rest
