Spring Dreams

1960

Japanese

6.8

♡ 5

Action

Comedy

Keisuke Kinoshita Director

Yûsuke Kawazu as Mamoru Okudaira

Masao Oda as Takeuchi

Michiko Araki as Yae

Yoshio Inaba as Yamada

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends.

Killers on Parade

1961

Japanese

6.6

♡ 5

Masahiro Shinoda Director

Ichirô Sugai as

Yûsuke Kawazu as

Masaaki Hirao as

Keijirô Morozumi as

A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic competition.

Sad Vacation

2007

Japanese

6.8

♡ 2

58%

Action

Drama

school friend

Shinji Aoyama Director

Tadanobu Asano as Kenji Shiraishi

Yûsuke Kawazu as Kijima

Yuka Itaya as Saeko Shiina

Kengo Kôra as Yusuke Mamiya

Kenji, abandoned by his mother, scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs including driving bar hostesses and their customers home. Besides this he takes care of the sister of an old friend in jail and a young illegal immigrant. Eventually his life reaches a turning point.

Sleepy Eyes of Death: In the Spider's Lair

1968

Japanese

6.5

♡ 5

Kimiyoshi Yasuda Director

Yûsuke Kawazu as Domon Ietake

Mako Midori as Murasaki

Raizô Ichikawa as Nemuri Kyoshiro

Shinobu Araki as Old farmer

The titular "tarantula" is a murderous woman who, along with the brother who is in love with her, kill without warrant because they are wealthy & above the law. Kyoshiro the homeless masterless wandering samurai has nothing to lose, & no scruples anyway, so can reproach even the powerful with ease. He is thus, for all that he has broad streaks of villainy all his own, a champion of the people by default.

Battle of Okinawa

1971

Japanese

6.9

♡ 4

Kihachi Okamoto Director

Kenjirô Ishiyama as

Yûsuke Kawazu as

Eijirô Tôno as

Michitarô Mizushima as

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.

Good-for-Nothing

1960

Japanese

6.8

♡ 3

91%

Yoshishige Yoshida Director

Masahiko Tsugawa as Jun

Masao Mishima as Kensaku Kitajima

Isao Sasaki as Singer

Yûsuke Kawazu as Toshio

Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a "good-for-nothing" from a poor background falls in love with the young secretary of his rich friend's father. The woman senses good in him and tries to lead him on the right path.

The Red Angel

1966

Japanese

7.8

♡ 6

Yasuzô Masumura Director

Kenji Ohba as

Ayako Wakao as Nurse Sakura Nishi

Jôtarô Senba as Private Sakamoto

Yûsuke Kawazu as Pvt. Orihara

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.

Yakuza Masterpiece

1970

Japanese

6.9

♡ 3

Yasuzô Masumura Director

Michiko Araki as

Yûsuke Kawazu as Kaizuka

Shintarô Katsu as Minoru

Masakazu Tamura as Yuji

Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beautiful sister named Akane. He dreams of sending her to college and turning her into a perfect young lady. He's extremely fond of Akane. His fondness for her goes beyond how he feels about his mistress, Kanae. And yet, Akane feels alone. Now, a new tutor comes into her life that seems to have taken a liking to her...

Fighting Elegy

1966

Japanese

6.9

♡ 2

74%

Action

based on memoir or autobiography

Comedy

Drama

roman catholic

roman catholic church

sexual repression

young love

youth gang

Seijun Suzuki Director

Akira Takahashi as

Ken Mizoguchi as

Hiroshi Tachikawa as

Yûsuke Kawazu as Suppon 'Turtle'

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.

The Sun's Burial

1960

Japanese

6.9

♡ 3

60%

Nagisa Ôshima Director

Yûsuke Kawazu as Gang member

Isao Sasaki as New gang member Takeshi

Masahiko Tsugawa as Shin, leader of gang

Ichirô Nagai as The 'lance'

In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.

Love New and Old

1961

Japanese

6.6

♡ 1

Drama

Masahiro Shinoda Director

Miyuki Kuwano as

Yûsuke Kawazu as

Masayuki Mori as

Bunta Sugawara as

A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.

Gô-hime

1992

Japanese

6.8

♡ 5

Hiroshi Teshigahara Director

Rentarô Mikuni as Junsai

Yûsuke Kawazu as Katsushige Itakura

Tatsuya Nakadai as Oribe Furuta

Rie Miyazawa as Princess Goh

Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to commit suicide. Princess Goh, daughter of the lord but adopted by Hideyoshi, is outraged when Rikyū's severed head is thrown in the Nijo River. She sends Usu, Oribe's servant, to retrieve the head and deliver it to Rikyū's adopted daughter.

Swastika

1964

Japanese

6.8

♡ 7

Yasuzô Masumura Director

Yûzô Hayakawa as

Yûsuke Kawazu as Eijirô Watanuki

Eiji Funakoshi as Kôtarô Kakiuchi

Ayako Wakao as Mitsuko Tokumitsu

The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.

The Inheritance

1962

Japanese

7.4

♡ 6

Masaki Kobayashi Director

Tatsuya Nakadai as Kikuo Furukawa

Kunie Tanaka as Man in bar

Misako Watanabe as Rie, Senzô's wife

Yûsuke Kawazu as Sadao

A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown, so a bevy of lawyers and associates scheme to take advantage of the situation.

Ken

1964

Japanese

7.3

♡ 4

Action

Drama

kendo

Kenji Misumi Director

Akitake Kôno as

Raizô Ichikawa as Jiro Kokubun

Yûsuke Kawazu as Kagawa

Yoshio Inaba as Seiichiro Kokubun

Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity and beauty of the sword arts. Kagawa, a promising but arrogant kendo student, is attracted to Kokubu's devout leadership but kept at a distance by his standoffish nature. With the national championships fast approaching, the pair clash as Kokubu drives his students with increasingly rigorous training and Kagawa tests Kokubu's grip on the class.

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

1961

Japanese

8.8

♡ 38

Masaki Kobayashi Director

Hideko Takamine as Hinanmin no Onna

Nobuo Kaneko as Kirihara Gôchô

Fujio Suga as Nagata Taii

Yûsuke Kawazu as Terada Nitôhei

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.

Cruel Story of Youth

1960

Japanese

6.9

♡ 18

100%

Nagisa Ôshima Director

Shin Morikawa as

Kei Satô as Akira Matsuko

Yûsuke Kawazu as Kiyoshi

Miyuki Kuwano as Makoto

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

1959

Japanese

8.5

♡ 38

Action

conscientious objector

Masaki Kobayashi Director

Kenjirô Uemura as Bannai Jôtôhei

Takashi Ebata as Kanamori - Nitôhei

Yûsuke Kawazu as Terada Nitôhei

Kaneko Iwasaki as Tokunaga Kangofu

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II

1993

Japanese

6.5

♡ 10

83%

Kazuki Ohmori Director

Tadao Takashima as Chief Hosono

Masahiro Takashima as Kazuma Aoki

Yûsuke Kawazu as Professor Omae

Daijirô Harada as Takuya Sasaki

The U.N.G.C.C. (United Nations Godzilla Countermeasure Center) recovers the remains of Mecha-King Ghidorah and construct Mechagodzilla as a countermeasure against Godzilla. Meanwhile, a giant egg is discovered along with a new monster called Rodan. The egg is soon found to be none other than an infant Godzillasaurus.

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Spring Dreams

Killers on Parade

Sad Vacation

Sleepy Eyes of Death: In the Spider's Lair

Battle of Okinawa

Good-for-Nothing

The Red Angel

Yakuza Masterpiece

Fighting Elegy

The Sun's Burial

Love New and Old

Gô-hime

Swastika

The Inheritance

Ken

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

Cruel Story of Youth

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II