Isuzu Yamada – MRQE

Okuman choja

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.

The Horse Boy

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A humble page fathers a child by the daughter of a clan official and is banished. Years later, the child, now a stable boy, is reunited with his father, but feudal codes threaten their happiness. Uchidas poignant masterpiece condemns the inflexible class system and launches an indictment of values that favor symbolic objects over human life. The films focus is on character rather than swordplay, and charged performancesespecially child actor Motoharu Uekiadd to the emotional power.

Nagareru

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn’t see any future in her mothers trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.

Shin shikôtei

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin’s great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted autocratic dictatorship and led a luxurious life: abolition of feudalism and the centralization of power in the form of a now-hereditary bureaucracy loyal to himself; burning books and burying scholars; the construction of a sumptuous palace for his concubines and also the Great Wall.

Yôjinbô

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

Ôsaka-jô monogatari

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by Toyotomi to overcome the seat of power, Osaka Castle. Mohei’s daredevil skills will be put to severe tests.

Bonchi

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business, he stands by helplessly as his wife is thrown out of the house for producing a son. Driven to a life of dissipation – his mistresses also fail to produce daughters – in the end he is just too tired to care.

Kuroi kawa

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story follows a university student who moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell the building through illicit means.

Tôkyô boshoku

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

Throne of Blood

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Returning to their lord’s castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit’s prophecy comes true, Washizu’s scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit’s prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa’s resetting of William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.