Tag Archives: Japanese

In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in ...

Tokyo! is an anthology of three short films by Gondry (France), Carax (France) and Bong (Korea), each of whom offers an imaginative and ...

When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to, quite literally, “leap” backwards through time, she immediately sets about ...

A year ago, singer Sayuri Komatsu committed suicide due to stress triggered by reports of her affair. Teru Morishima, who lost Sayuri, now lives ...

Iori’s only dream is to go to college on a remote island-but when he gets roped into the school’s debaucherous, alcohol-indulgent ...

Princess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but feels irritated by Anchin’s indifference to ...

A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later. Despite the Asian setting, it has a ...

Director Minoru Shibuya adapted Masuji Ibushi’s masterpiece to film. The film depicts a doctor who has a sign that reads “Closed ...

The morning variety show, a staple of television around the world, offers news and entertainment but TV host Shingo didn’t expect to be ...

The broker-and perhaps creator-of the memory-altering virus comes to Japan and uses the virus to bring down an entire airline, killing all those ...

Great monster fight sequences are a highlight of the 14th Godzilla film. Aliens armed with a mechanical Godzilla intend to take over the planet. ...

The Earth is headed for disaster and when an archeological research team visits Infant Island to find out why, they discover two tiny women who ...

Time travelers from the 23rd century return to 1992 to warn Japan that Godzilla will cause a catastrophic nuclear incident in the 21st century ...

The United Nations assembles the ultimate weapon to defeat Godzilla, while scientists discover a fresh pteranodon egg on a remote Japanese ...

When Mothra went into outer space to stop a meteor from reaching Earth, she accidentally took with cells from Godzilla and remaining cells from ...

Godzilla’s 12th film. After a accepting a job at a monster-themed park, a man learns his new employers are actually aliens who plan to use ...

Godzilla returns to terrorize Japan! This time, however, Japan has two new weapons to defend themselves. The Gryphon, a high-tech ship, and the ...

Forty-two years after her first visit in Tokyo, Mothra returns to warn mankind that they must return Mechagodzilla, along with Godzilla’s ...

Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down ...

Koreyoshi Kurahara adapted a novel by Yukio Mishima for Thirst for Love (Ai no kawaki), a tense psychological drama about a young woman who is ...