Unlucky Woman's Blues
つぐない 新宿ゴールデン街の女
The lives and loves of several people all intersect in the Golden Gai, a labyrinth of alleys and bars located in central Tokyo.
つぐない 新宿ゴールデン街の女
The lives and loves of several people all intersect in the Golden Gai, a labyrinth of alleys and bars located in central Tokyo.
Rated 6.2 on TMDB
Prostitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third of their money for a proposed dancehall to be named Paradise. The hookers live in a bombed-out building, but they accept the precarious situation with typical resolve.
Rated 6.9 on TMDB
In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregnant by a man she does not want to marry and has found a kindred spirit in a used bookstore owner who aids her research.
Rated 7.3 on TMDB
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.
Rated 6.5 on TMDB
Kiyoha rises from the lowly courtesan ranks to the high class position of Oiran in the steamy red-light district of Yoshiwara. She is determined to stand on her own two feet and live life as she pleased.
Rated 7.5 on TMDB
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.
Rated 7.1 on TMDB
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.
