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    Gyoei no mure 1983 POSTER

    Gyoei no mure

    1983

    Japanese

    6.9

    ♡ 6

    Action

    Drama

    Shinji Sômai Shinji Sômai Director Yukiyo Toake Yukiyo Toake as Aya Ken Ogata Ken Ogata as Fusajiro Kohama Kôichi Satô Kôichi Satô as Shunichi Ida Masako Natsume Masako Natsume as Tokiko Kohama
    A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend's father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the father to teach him the trade's secrets.
    Sailor Suit and Machine Gun 1981 POSTER

    Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

    1981

    Japanese

    6.3

    ♡ 3

    Action

    based on novel or book

    fish out of water

    japan

    japanese film

    japanese high school girl

    Romance

    yakuza

    Shinji Sômai Shinji Sômai Director Hiroko Yakushimaru Hiroko Yakushimaru as Izumi Hoshi Yuki Kazamatsuri Yuki Kazamatsuri as Mayumi Sandaiji Tatsuya Oka Tatsuya Oka as Tetsuo, Izumi's Friend Shingo Yanagisawa Shingo Yanagisawa as Tomoo, Izumi's Friend
    A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.
    Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion 1985 POSTER

    Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion

    1985

    Japanese

    6.7

    ♡ 4

    Action

    Drama

    long take

    Shinji Sômai Shinji Sômai Director Chigusa Takayama Chigusa Takayama as Machiko Naka Machiko Naka as Yuki Saitô Yuki Saitô as Iori Natsuki Leonard Kuma Leonard Kuma as Yoshioka
    Iori, taken from an orphanage by a family for domestic work, runs away and is adopted and raised by two young men. Ten years later, she crosses paths with her former step-sister, who is soon poisoned to death, Iori being the prime suspect.
    Tôkyô jôkû irasshaimase 1990 POSTER

    Tôkyô jôkû irasshaimase

    1990

    Japanese

    6.5

    ♡ 4

    Drama

    Shinji Sômai Shinji Sômai Director Kiichi Nakai Kiichi Nakai as Fumio Amamiya Shunji Fujimura Shunji Fujimura as Katsu Hashimoto Tomokazu Miura Tomokazu Miura as Takeo Amamiya Takatoshi Takeda Takatoshi Takeda as Takeshi Wada
    A pampered young model is killed in a traffic accident. Given the chance to return to earth, she becomes involved with the advertising executive who is trying to cover up her death. A blend of fantasy and trenchant realism in which Somai uses the ethereal glow of advertising images to comment on the transience of life.
    Ah haru 1998 POSTER

    Ah haru

    1998

    Japanese

    6.4

    ♡ 2

    Drama

    heisei

    Shinji Sômai Shinji Sômai Director Kôichi Satô Kôichi Satô as Hiroshi Nirasaki Tomokazu Miura Tomokazu Miura as Hiroshi's brother Tsutomu Yamazaki Tsutomu Yamazaki as Sasaichi, Hiroshi's Father Kimiko Yo Kimiko Yo as Wife of Hiroshi's brother
    A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged father shows up at his house requesting shelter. One of the best of Somai's seriocomic studies of the messiness of family life.
    Typhoon Club 1985 POSTER

    Typhoon Club

    1985

    Japanese

    6.9

    ♡ 5

    83%

    adolescence

    classroom

    depression

    Drama

    junior high school

    nihilism

    pessimism

    Romance

    Shinji Sômai Shinji Sômai Director Kôichi Satô Kôichi Satô as Shingo Tsurumi Shingo Tsurumi as Keiji Mikami Yuriko Fuchizaki Yuriko Fuchizaki as Midori Tomokazu Miura Tomokazu Miura as Teacher Umemiya
    Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which six of the students endure while marooned in their school.
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