Shinsuke Ashida – MRQE

Rakuyô

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement.

226

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

Based on the “2.26 Incident”, an attempted coup d’état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents before the coup was suppressed.

Nikutai no mon

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

Kurutta kajitsu

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

Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking.

Akai tenshi

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 05:00:00 +0000

In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe with an incredible number of amputations. In the crowded wards, she gives sympathy to some of the soldiers, including sexually servicing one who has lost both arms and has no hope of returning home. She falls in love with Dr. Okabe, and follows him to the front, even though he is impotent from his morphine addiction.

Akô-jô danzetsu

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

This is the story of “The Forty-Seven Ronin.” Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan’s downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, into drawing his sword inside the Shogun’s palace — a crime which carried the death penalty. The newly installed Shogun was furious at Asano and ordered all his clan’s assets seized, meaning some 20,000 samurai and commoners were unemployed and landless at a stroke. Forty-seven of these ronin (masterless samurai) banded together to take attempt revenge on Lord Kira, who had goaded Asano into drawing his sword.

Ai no kawaki

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

Natsuko, a Tokyo bar proprietress, and Yuki, a Kyoto Ryokan owner, vie for the affections of an advertising professional.

Sono gosôsha wo nerae: ‘Jûsangô taihisen’ yori

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

A sharpshooter kills two prisoners in a police van at night. The guard on the van is suspended for six months; he’s Tamon, an upright, modest man. He begins his own investigation into the murders. Who were the victims, who are their relatives and girlfriends, who else was on the van that night? As he doggedly investigates, others die, coincidences occur, and several leads take him to the Hamaju Agency, which may be supplying call girls. Its owner is in jail, his daughter, the enigmatic Yuko, keeps turning up where Tamon goes. Tamon believes he can awaken good in people, but has he met his match? Will he solve the murders or be the next victim? And who is Akiba?

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.

Abashiri Bangaichi

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