Tuesday, 11 November 2025

Tatsuya Nakadai 1932-2025

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  Sword of Doom (1966)   Today (which happens to be Remembrance Day) I woke up and turned on my phone to find a WhatsApp message from a fr...
Sunday, 9 November 2025

The Alaska Story / アラスカ物語 / Arasuka monogatari (1977)

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Obscure Japanese Film #228 Kinya Kitaoji This Toho production was based on a 1974 novel* by Jiro Nitta (1912-80), who also supplied the sou...
Thursday, 6 November 2025

A Picture of Madame Yuki / 雪夫人繪圖 / Yuki Fujin ezu (1968)

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Obscure Japanese Film #227 1949. Teenage orphan Hamako (Sumiko Hasegawa) arrives at a grand residence at Shinobazu Pond in Ueno, Tokyo, to ...
Sunday, 2 November 2025

Hyoroku’s Dream Tale / 兵六夢物語 / Hyoroku yume monogatari (1943)

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 Obscure Japanese Film #226 Ken'ichi Enomoto aka Enoken   Here’s a weird one! This Toho production was based on a story by Masanao Mori...
Wednesday, 29 October 2025

Yellow Dog / イエロー・ドッグ (1973)

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Obscure Japanese Film #225   Jiro Tamiya   This oddity is an independent Japanese-British co-production from a company called Akari, which ...
Friday, 24 October 2025

Yukiko / 由紀子 (1955)

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 Obscure Japanese Film #224   Keiko Tsushima 1932. Intending to kill herself in a beautiful place, high school girl Yukiko (Keiko Tsushima)...
Sunday, 19 October 2025

Heat Wave Island / かげろう / Kagero (‘Heat Wave’, 1969)

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Obscure Japanese Film #223   Nobuko Otowa Produced by Kindai Eiga Kyokai, an independent company formed by director Kozaburo Yoshimura, scre...
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