Nobuo Kaneko
1) Ikiru
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning to life. After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization in bringing about the building of a children's playground in the slums and dies quietly fulfilled.
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
日本語
Description
Set in 1963, Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara), expelled from the Yamamori gang, has allied himself with the cowardly Uchimoto (Takeshi Kato) and the Akashi family, who are engaged in a power struggle with the Shinwa Group, allied with the Yamamori. But mainstream society, enjoying unprecedented economic prosperity, will no longer tolerate their violent criminal activities. The police begin a major crackdown, putting the gangs on the defensive. But rogue...
3) Ikiru
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
日本語
Description
A young Japanese businessman dying of cancer wants to give something back to society before his death, so he decides to build a playground for children.
Publisher
Retromedia Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In "Return of the giant monsters, " the saga of Gamera continues as he battles Gaos, a giant vampire bat that survives on human blood.
In "The magic serpent" samurai clash with a giant snake, a giant toad and a giant spider.
Publisher
Radiance
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
日本語
Description
Tokyo, 1934. Gang boss Arakawa is too ill and a successor must be named. The choice falls on Nakai, but being an outsider he refuses and suggests senior clansman Matsuda instead. But Matsuda is in jail and the elders won't wait for his release, so they appoint the younger and more malleable Ishido to take the reins. Clan honour and loyalties are severely tested when Matsuda is released, resulting in an increasingly violent internal strife.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
日本語
Description
A collection of five films by Japanese director Koreyoshi Kurahara.
Intimidation: Sinister blackmail, a daring heist, and two bank coworkers at odds; Kurahara's noir seethes with tension.
The warped ones: Akira, possibly the most reckless youth in film history, tears up Tokyo in this frenetically shot and edited jazz-scored trip to hell.
I hate but love: Tired of life in the public eye, a celebrity leaves the city for a faraway village, but the...
Series
Yakuza papers volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Language
日本語
Description
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza. After joining boss Yamamori, Shozo is drawn into a feud with his sworn brother's family, the Dois. But that's when the chivalry ends and the hypocrisy, betrayal, and assasinations begin.
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
日本語
Appears on list
Description
While Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang, serves a prison sentence for a bungled hit, another family member attempts to seize power from the boss, leaving Miyoshi stuck between the two factions with no honorable way out.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
日本語
Description
"In this atmospheric tale of revenge from beyond the watery grave, a pirate-ransacked freighter's violent past comes back to haunt a young woman living in a seaside town. Mixing elements of kaidan (ghost stories), doppelgänger thrillers, and mad-scientist movies, Hiroshi Matsuno's The Living Skeleton is a wild and eerie work"--Container.