Kayo Matsuo – MRQE

Business Trip

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Nikutai no mon

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of postWorld War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in a world of chaos. But when a renegade ex-soldier stumbles into their midst, lusts and loyalties clash, with tragic results. With Gate of Flesh, visionary director Seijun Suzuki delivers a whirlwind of social critique and pulp drama, shot through with brilliant colors and raw emotions.

Shogun Assassin

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

A Shogun who grew paranoid as he became senile sent his ninjas to kill his samurai. They failed but did kill the samurais wife. The samurai swore to avenge the death of his wife and roams the countryside with his toddler son in search of vengeance.

Kozure Ôkami: Sanzu no kawa no ubaguruma

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

In the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must assassinate a traitor who plans to sell his clan’s secrets to the Shogunate.

Chi wo sû ningyô: Yûrei yashiki no kyôfu

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

A young man travels out into the countryside to meet his fiance, Yuko. When he arrives at the secluded house he is told by her mother that she has died in a car accident. He spends the night at the house and hears some strange sounds at night, even seeing someone that looks just like his dead love. Later he sees Yuko outside the house and follows her to a grave with her name. Cut to some days later where the young mans sister is worried since she hasnt heard from him in some time. She persuades her boyfriend to take her to the house, but is told that he already left. For the sake of proper plot development she doesnt believe Yukos mother and fakes the car breaking down so that they can investigate what really happened.

Kurenai no nagareboshi

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always manages to stay one step ahead of the law. In his exile, he comes under suspicion for a murder and meets the girlfriend of the murdered man. They develop a strange bond while unbeknown to Goro, another hitman is after him for the job he did in Tokyo.

Kenka erejî

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.

Kawachi Karumen

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a fashion model. Yoko tells her that she can move in to Yokos house to take lessons, while making a living at the same time.

Irezumi ichidai

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

Tattooed Life’ begins with a parasol wielding Yakuza assassin attacking a rickshaw. It almost looks like feudal Japan until somebody pulls a gun and we’re reminded that it’s the 20th century. Post-shooting, the assassin delivers his bounty to his brother (to pay for his art school education) before getting ambushed in one of the few rickshaw-jacking incidents in film history, and being rescued by his art-student brother. In the aftermath, one brother is marked for death by the Yakuza, and the other brother won’t go to art school with blood on his hands, so they decide the perfect way to deal with such hardships is to become fugitive construction workers in northern Japan . And why not?

Nianchan

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a best-selling book based on the diary of a ten-year-old zainichi (ethnic Korean Japanese) girl, it was one of the first films to deal with the subject of zainichi identity and struggles in Japan.