Yûzô Kayama – MRQE

Na mo naku mazushiku utsukushiku

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

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations … and joys.

Kurenai no umi

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

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

Tsubaki Sanjûrô

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

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed “Sanjuro.” In this companion piece and sequel to “Yojimbo,” jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan’s evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.

Messengers

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

Naomi Shimizu is a young career woman working for Enrico Dandolo, an Italian fashion house. That is until one day the company declares bankruptcy. Accustomed to living in luxury she tries to make a run for it with the last remaining company asset, a red Alpha Romeo sports car. Unfortunately she recklessly collides with an bicycle messenger. Lacking any funds to pay for a settlement, she end up having to work as a bicycle messenger.

Zerosen moyu

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

Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pilot of Japans new super fighter – the Zero. The movie is told in reverse from the point of one of the young men who don’t qualify for the pilot training and instead joins the ground crew. It chronicles the entire history of the famous fighter from the first prototype test flights all through the war.

Midareru

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

After a bombing raid destroys the family store and her husband, Reiko rebuilds and runs the shop out of love stopped short by destruction.

Esupai

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The film deals with the recruitment of race car driver Jiro Miki (Masao Kusakari) and his dog, Caesar, to a group of people who use ESP, psychokinesis, and other special mental abilities to fight crime.

Gekido no showashi: Okinawa kessen

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

The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army divisions to defend it at all costs. The mission quickly degenerates as vital resources and troops are diverted to other islands. After a civilian evacuation ends in tragedy most of non-combatants are forced to remain on the island. Many convert to soldier status. Tokyo sends mixed messages that squander time and resources, as when they order the defenders to build an airstrip for aircraft that never come. The truth soon becomes obvious: the high command decides that the island cannot be held and effectively abandons the Okinawan defenders. When the Americans land many troops are deployed in the wrong places. As the slaughter mounts, a suicidal attitude takes hold. Okinawa becomes a death trap, for civilian volunteers and non-combatants as well.

Midaregumo

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

A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man’s widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.

The Sword of Doom

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

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. Its a way of life that leads to madness.