Toronto Japanese Film Festival highlights the fact with a very interesting collection of both known titles and 'hidden gems".
Tag - Takahisa Zeze
“Keep your cool!” yells the ageing, secretly ailing trainer Jin to his young protégé Shogo during boxing matches. But that’s easier said than done...
Sexploitation rears its head in this murder-mystery set in 1947 Japan
A struggling young boxer Shogo is stunned by an elderly guy Jin’s sharp counterpunch during a street fight, and asks him to be his trainer. Jin, as it...
Jinichi Hirooka is a former boxer. He lost a boxing match by an unfair decision and he then moved to the United States. After 40 years, he returns to Japan and...
About adapting Shichiri Narayama's novel, the Fukushima disaster and its connection with social welfare, the main characters and the casting, his past and...
"How about my kid with her depressed welfare mother?"
