Mandara

1971

Japanese

6.5

♡ 13

Action

Drama

Akio Jissôji Director

Genshû Hanayagi as

Akiji Kobayashi as (as Akishi Kobayashi)

Kôji Shimizu as Shinichi / Yukiko's husband

Hiroko Sakurai as Yasuko / Hirochi's wife

Two university students from Kyoto decide to swap partners and spend the night in an isolated motel. However, one of the couples is attacked. Desperate for answers, they search for the attackers and come across a cult that promotes sexual freedom.

Suspicion

1982

Japanese

7.1

♡ 5

Yoshitarô Nomura Director

Akiji Kobayashi as Chief of Police, Ishihara

Kaori Momoi as Kumako Onizawa

Isuzu Yamada as Tokie Horiuchi

Kensaku Morita as Yoshiro Fujiwara

A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who perishes. Riding alongside him and surviving unhurt is his second wife, Kumako. It soon comes to light that Kumako’s husband was insured for 300 million yen and she is arrested on suspicion of murdering her husband for the insurance money. The newspapers denounce her as an evil woman, while the public is in no doubt about Kumako’s crime. Ritsuko Sahara is chosen as her defence attorney but the pair clash over almost everything...

The Pleasures of the Flesh

1965

Japanese

6.9

♡ 3

62%

Nagisa Ôshima Director

Yumiko Nogawa as Hitomi

Akiji Kobayashi as Mari's pimp

Kei Satô as Police inspector

Mariko Kaga as Shoko

After committing murder, businessman Atsushi is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase of embezzled money. What follows is a descent into lustful, reckless actions and regret.

This Transient Life

1970

Japanese

7.6

♡ 11

Akio Jissôji Director

Eiji Okada as

Isao Sasaki as

Michiko Tsukasa as

Akiji Kobayashi as

Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.

Black Rain

1989

Japanese

7.8

♡ 7

52%

55%

Action

atomic bomb

based on novel or book

Drama

hiroshima, japan

husband wife relationship

marriage proposal

War

world war ii

Shôhei Imamura Director

Sabu Kawahara as Kanemaru

Akiji Kobayashi as Katayama

Kazuko Shirakawa as Old Woman with white flag

Kazuo Kitamura as Shigematsu Shizuma

Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic bombing, a tragedy that cruelly took the lives of thousands of people and forever marked the harsh existence of the survivors.

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah

1991

Japanese

6.4

♡ 7

56%

Kazuki Ohmori Director

Kiwako Harada as Chiaki Moriyuma

Tetsu Watanabe as Lagos Island Japanese Army Sergeant

Kenzo Ogiwara as Takeo Shimura

Akiji Kobayashi as Yuzo Tsuchihashi

The Futurians, time-travelers from the 23rd century, arrive in Japan to warn them of the nation's destruction under Godzilla. They offer to help erase Godzilla from history by preventing his creation. With Godzilla seemingly gone, a new monster emerges as the Futurians' true intentions are revealed.

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