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22 reviews
Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto

Kino International, 2000

Life and Death
There are some classic images in Japanese film, scenes that stick with you long after the film is over. Takakura Ken, tattooed and brandishing his sword, about to take vengeance for his master. A hill with five mounds, each with a sword sticking from the top. This scene of Ogata Ken carrying his mother on his back, climbing up the mountain where he will leave her to die, has got to be among ...

The Pornographers [VHS]

13 reviews
Shoichi Ozawa, Sumiko Sakamoto

Connoisseur Video, 1992

A Film About Love
The Pornographers is an ironic title for a film about love. Sex drive is like the ever present gravity which more or less impacts on planets. However look at all the odd twists & turns in the characters' lives that would have been unlikely if they were only trying to get laid. Sometimes the hero's thoughts dart back to his lover's little girl as she was injured under a vehicle. His lover later ...

Gonza the Spearman [VHS]

3 reviews
Haruko Kato, Hideji Ôtaki

Kino International, 2000

This is what I would call an elegant picture
The first half of the movie has a slow pace and is contemplative, which provides time for reflection and allows the viewer to be prepared for the main story. In a way, it helps by contrast the development of the scenes that follow, and also helps to build the main story until it culminates in the surprising, emotional, and elegant, finale. I should not say anything more about the story. The ...

Story of a Prostitute (Ws Sub) [VHS]

3 reviews
Yumiko Nogawa, Tamio Kawaji

Homevision, 2000

A Visually Complex Tale of a Woman's Role in a Patriarchal World...
Historically, women have had to find a way to live in the patriarchal societies throughout the world, as their destinies most often involved marriage. Marriage offered safety, social acceptance, and the basic needs for a woman, as the man was the breadwinner. On occasion, some women sought anew destiny, less accepted and much more dangerous, as they had to find a way to make a living by ...

Black Rain [VHS]

27 reviews
Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura

Fox Lorber, 2001

After the bomb was dropped, the rain fell
After the initial explosion of the atomic bomb "Little Boy" over the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the skies turned black and rain began to fall. This rain, black and muddy, was so welcome by the survivors of the blast that some people even opened their mouths to drink the previous water, completely unaware that a new kind of death was falling from the sky. What the Japanese referred to ...

Human Bullet: Human Guinea Pigs [VHS]
Minori Terada, Naoko Otani

Superior Promotions, Inc., 2001

Ejecting from a supersonic airplane is like hitting a brick wall at 600 miles per hour. Knowing that, how could a pilot survive? The answer came from a series of stunning human tests in rocket-powered sleds, culminating in historic 82 G impact. This is the story of G-forces and the human tests that made sudden acceleration and deceleration survivable. Includes rare, original, narrated segments produced by the government.