Distance (2001)

As the radio describes coming memorials for the victims of an attempt by a religious cult to poison Tokyo's reservoirs, we see four apparently unrelated individuals: Atsushi, a flower shop worker visiting an old man in a hospital; Masaru, a young man out for night on the town with his girlfriend; Makoto, a man going …

Policeman’s Diary/Keisatsu nikki (1955)

There is a type of movie the Japanese have regularly made that I have rarely found in any of the other major film cultures. It's not quite a comedy, though there are often many chuckles (rather than laughs). It's not quite a tragedy, though things often end badly for many of the characters. It's not …