Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contract are beginning to unravel, and some unscrupulous people took undue advantage of these changes before the social order was re-created. In this story, a rich merchant gives his clerk an I.O.U. instead of wages. When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a rage and pretends he never wrote it and claims the clerk is trying to defraud him. Then he sets his henchmen on the clerk to administer a beating.

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

1974

Japanese

6.3

♡ 13

59%

Toshiya Fujita Director

Mizuho Suzuki as Narrator

Jûzô Itami as Ransui Tokunaga

Meiko Kaji as Shurayuki-hime

Yoshio Harada as Shusuke Tokunaga

Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.

Lullaby of the Earth

1976

Japanese

6.9

♡ 8

Action

Drama

erotic movie

Yasuzô Masumura Director

Eiji Okada as Evangelist

Mieko Harada as Rin

Shigeo Katô as Seisuke

Meiko Kaji as Young girl

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world when her grandmother dies.