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40 years of Kinji Fukasaku’s ‘Battles Without Honor and Humanity’

40 years of Kinji Fukasaku’s ‘Battles Without Honor and Humanity’

The gritty films by director Kinji Fukasaku were a contrast to their predecessors in the genre…

March 20, 2013No CommentRead More

Tour of Asakusa

Tour of Asakusa

Asakusa retains certain cultural elements of life back in the Edo Period…

August 29, 20102 CommentsRead More

Porn again: Historic Tokyo ‘pink’ theater upgrades, seeks female audience

Porn again: Historic Tokyo ‘pink’ theater upgrades, seeks female audience

Legendary theater has been entertaining fans of erotic cinema for nearly five decades…

August 2, 20108 CommentsRead More

Curtain falling on cinema in Kabukicho

Curtain falling on cinema in Kabukicho

The red-light district’s screen total has shrunk from 14 to four in a little over a year…

February 15, 20104 CommentsRead More

Shochiku adds animation

TOKYO – Readying more robots for battle. Japanese film giants Toei and Toho probably cast nervous looks over their backs in September, when film-distribution and kabuki-theater conglomerate Shochiku established an…

August 5, 20081 CommentRead More