Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.Read More »
Kanako Higuchi
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Takeshi Kitano – Akiresu to kame AKA Achilles and the Tortoise (2008)
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Yôichi Higashi – Wangan Doro AKA Gulf Road (1984)
1981-1990ArthouseDramaJapanYôichi Higashireview from Letterboxd
21st century modern love in 80s Japan. carried out with absolute smoothness, confidence, and nuance. The male protagonist: Choosing to leave after having conducted enough inward reflection (this is surprisingly non-masculine, even with a motorcycle). Somewhat radical, really showed a unique “nonconformist’s” ideal of what love relationship can be. Everything done right, beats Tampopo in almost every sense (except food).Read More » -
Tatsumi Kumashiro – Bedtime Eyes (1987)
1981-1990AsianJapanTatsumi KumashiroBased on a polemic novel by Amy Yamada, Bedtime Eyes is about the intense love relationship between a second rate Japanese jazz singer and a black American GI on the margins of the law.Read More »
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Yoshimitsu Morita – Tokimeki ni shisu AKA Deaths in Tokimeki (1984)
1981-1990AsianJapanThrillerYoshimitsu MoritaAn emotionless hit man is sent on a mission to a remote town. There he stays with a caretaker / driver / servant / doctor who is given minimal instruction over the phone by “the organization.” A prostitute joins them. Death is inevitable, but whose?Read More »
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Kazuo Kuroki – Rônin-gai aka Street of Masterless Samurai (1990)
1981-1990AsianJapanKazuo KurokiMartial ArtsKazuo Kuroki’s international award-winning period drama was produced in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the death of Shozo Makino, “the father of Japanese films.” Set in the 1830s near the end of the age of the samurai, Ronin Gai is populated by an ensemble of colorful characters, social outcasts who patronize a restaurant and brothel on the outskirts of Edo. Among them are prostitutes and masterless samurai reduced to drunkenness and debauchery. The disgraced and disillusioned former warriors get a chance at redemption when renegade samurai invade the area to murder the prostitutes.Read More »