Ranko Sawa

Set in the port city of Yokohama, two girls, Sunako and Dora who attend a Christian school, pledge to be friends. But when a youth named Henry ...

The Japanese equivalent of penny dreadfuls glorifying Jesse James, A Diary of Chuji’s Travels gives a unique gloss to the tale of Chuji ...

For decades, film buffs have been told that until Kurosawa’s RASHOMON, Japanese cinema was a forbidden kingdom, bearing little relationship ...

The film title Nyonin Aishu means the sadness of women and this summarizes this story of a “conservative and indecisive” Japanese ...

The Morning Sun Shines is a fiction-documentary film by Kenji Mizoguchi and Seiichi Ina. The film is a combination of a drama about a reporter, ...

In the formally ravishing Every-Night Dreams, set in the dockside neighborhoods of Tokyo, a single mother works tirelessly as a Ginza bar hostess ...