https://mrqe.com Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:27:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/the-white-orchid-m100057609/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-white-orchid-m100057609/ A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant’s short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/shin-zatoichi-monogatari-m100012920/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/shin-zatoichi-monogatari-m100012920/ Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in a love triangle and finds old scores have followed him home.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/nihon-boryokudan-kumicho-m100150298/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/nihon-boryokudan-kumicho-m100150298/ Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is taken in a crossfire between a big yakuza group from Osaka at war with the Tokyo alliance for the control of the city. He tries to keep to the old yakuza code but he is no match for the new thugs who live and fight without honor.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/kaidan-hebionna-m100050369/ Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/kaidan-hebionna-m100050369/ An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haunts the landlord from the grave. Since the man died in debt, his wife and daughter are indentured servants and are forced to work in the landlord’s factory.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/uchu-daikaiju-dogora-m100016156/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/uchu-daikaiju-dogora-m100016156/ A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/nippon-konchuki-m100043243/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/nippon-konchuki-m100043243/ A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/yojinbo-m100009975/ Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/yojinbo-m100009975/ 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.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/aki-tachinu-m100047429/ Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/aki-tachinu-m100047429/ A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle’s family, runs a struggling grocery store, and works a local inn. The boy befriends a girl, the daughter of the innkeeper…

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/denso-ningen-m100030214/ Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/denso-ningen-m100030214/ Men are being murdered by a psycho called “The Telegian,” who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/sengoku-guntoden-m100021055/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/sengoku-guntoden-m100021055/ Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu’s men, Rokuro, steals the money from Jibu, but after meeting and befriending Taro, Rokuro decides to return the money to Taro. But Taro’s unscrupulous brother Jiro falsely accuse Taro of the theft, and Taro reactively joins the outlaw band and encourages them to steal from the nobles and give to the poor.

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