Five Men in a Circus (Mikio Naruse, Japan, 1935)
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3y ago
An itinerant five man brass band that includes ladies man Torakichi (Hiroshi Ureko) and wannabe violinist Kokichi (Heihachiro Okawa) find themselves stuck at a seaside resort after their latest booking falls through. But the arrival in town of the travelling Asahi circus whose performers are out on strike at the circus manager’s tyrannical behaviour offers the men not just employment but the possibility of romance with the circus owner’s two comely daughters, Sumiko (Ryuko Umezono) and Chiyoko (Masako Tsutsumi). Naruse on good form here with a humorous tale of desperate musicians roped into b ..read more
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The Glamorous Ghost (Hajime Sato, Japan, 1964)
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3y ago
A husband named Asami (Ko Nishimura) fed up with his wife Sugie’s (Masumi Harukawa) cheating ways strangles her after an argument. Taking her body in a hearse he then visits her lovers; the president of a large company named Kitamura (Meicho Soganoya) and a physician at Tokyo hospital Dr.Yamagoshi (Nobuo Kaneko) and threatens to expose their affairs and humiliate them publicly unless they pay up. But when Kitamura coughs up a whopping five million yen other parties get interested. An invigoratingly plotted black comedy thriller with playful performances pitched at just the right level by the ..read more
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Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto, Japan, 1969)
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4y ago
At a Tokyo gay bar pretty teen transvestite Eddie (Peter) is the star attraction and carries on a secret relationship with Gonda (Yoshio Tsuchiya) who pushes drugs to the bar’s patrons. But Gonda is also the lover of the bar’s owner, transvestite Leda (Osamu Ogasawara), and fears Leda informing the police about his drug dealing if his affair is discovered. However what neither Gonda nor Leda know is that the self-destructive Eddie has murderous secrets of his own and in this love triangle a series of shocking revelations awaits. An amazing piece of cinema that’s an absolute blast to sit throu ..read more
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A Legend of Turmoil (Seiji Izumi, Japan, 1992)
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4y ago
When the boss of the veteran Kasabe union is attacked his loyal second-in-command Otaki (Akira Kobayashi) strikes back but soon discovers that their enemy is a formidable alliance of Yakuza gangs with an ambitious construction boss turned would be politician named Nakajima whose clout means he even has the chief of police in his pocket. As violence between the two sides escalates Otaki’s old fashioned notions of honour are shaken when the other Yakuza families refuse to rally to his side. Advised to seek terms with his enemies Otaki refuses and he and his men await their fate. This is an exce ..read more
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Internal Sleuth (Kenji Misumi, Japan, 1973)
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4y ago
Veteran cop Okumura (Tomisaburo Wakayama) finds himself on the trail of Sugiyama, who’s stolen a cache of guns from a US airbase and is on the run after shooting dead two police officers. But things get messy when the killer guns down a rival gang member whose boss Okumura is friends with, while the increasingly ruthless Seijin-kai gang whom Sugiyama is working for, plot to seize the guns for themselves with the help of a mole in the police department. An entertaining cop thriller with a good story, a good plot and star Wakayama showing a slightly different side to his screen persona as a tou ..read more
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Kiku and Isamu (Tadashi Imai, Japan, 1959)
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5y ago
11 year old Kiku (Emiko Takahashi) and her younger brother Isamu (George Okunoyama) find themselves the object of curiosity and casual cruelty as their classmates taunt them with jibes of ‘Blackie’, ‘Gorilla’ and comments about bananas being their favourite food. Unknown to both their father was a black GI, now gone back to the US. With their Japanese mother dead and the pair raised on a farm by an elderly aunt (Tanie Kitabayashi) who can barely cope with the back-breaking work needed just to earn a pittance, a decision has to be made about Kiku and Isamu’s future in a society with little tole ..read more
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Dreams For Sale (Miwa Nishikawa, Japan, 2012)
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5y ago
When the restaurant of husband Kanya (Sadao Abe) and wife Satoko (Takako Matsu) goes up in flames Satoko hits on the idea of using her husband to seduce his way into the affections of a string of lonely single women and then defraud them of their savings. Savings the pair can then put toward buying a new restaurant. But when Kanya develops a genuine affection for the Olympic dream of sweetly good-natured weightlifter Hitomi (Yuka Ebara) his actions place serious stress on his marriage to Satoko. And unknown to both, Kanya’s first victim has hired a private investigator to follow Kanya and disc ..read more
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