Dolls / Dorozu (2002)

I had not originally intended to write about Takeshi Kitano's Dolls, since it had wide international release and has been often discussed by other writers. However, after I have now seen hundreds of other Japanese movies, the film seems to take on a different significance than when I first saw it. Dolls was not the …

Chikamatsu’s Love in Osaka / Their Own World / Naniwa no koi no monogatari (1959)

Chubei has been adopted into a family to learn the business and eventually marry the daughter. Dragged by a friend/customer to the pleasure quarter, he is trapped reluctantly into spending his first night with a woman, the popular and lovely courtesan Umegawa. They fall in love, and when a rich man tries to buy Umegawa, …