Kin'ya Kitaôji

  • Shinobu Hashimoto – Maboroshi no mizuumi aka Lake of Illusions (1982) (HD)

    1981-1990JapanSci-FiShinobu Hashimoto
    Maboroshi no mizuumi (1982)
    Maboroshi no mizuumi (1982)

    A 1982 sci-fi cult drama about a grudge of a woman whose dog was murdered.

    Clive Davies wrote:
    I was lucky enough to see this wrongheaded 164 mins epic (a cult favourite in Japan) on a big-screen during an all-night movie show in Tokyo. Hashimoto was a celebrated screenwriter of both commercial and critical hits (including several for Akira Kurosawa), when he was given an awful lot of money to helm this seriously pretentious non-categorisable oddity.Read More »

  • Kiriô Urayama – Yumechiyo nikki AKA Yumechiyo’s Diary (1985)

    1981-1990AsianDramaJapanKirio Urayama

    Yumechiyo Nikki is the story of a woman who is suffering from leukemia, the result of exposure to the atomic blast when she was still unborn. In the last three years of her life, she returns home, a small hot spring resort in the San-in Region and runs a geisha house inherited from her mother.Read More »

  • Satsuo Yamamoto – Senso to ningen III: Kanketsuhen AKA Men And War Part III (1973)

    1971-1980EpicJapanSatsuo YamamotoWar

    Quote:
    Yamamoto Satsuo directed this masterful 9 hour epic trilogy on the effects of war on the five generations of a single Japanese family. Based on Gomikawa Jumpei’s (The Human Condition) bestselling novel, the film trilogy skillfully blends newsreel and archive footage with an all-star cast, exotic locations, and beautiful cinematography. The first part follows the rise of the Godai clan rise from war-profiteers to their becoming powerful industrialists in Japanese-occupied Manchuria during the 1930s. The second part follow the the stories of two brothers serving in different units of the Imperial Japanese army from 1935 to 1937 when Japan launched a full scale invasion of China. The third and final part details the family’s trials during the Sino-Japanese War to the Soviet army’s invasion of Japanese-occupied Northeastern China at the end of World War II.Read More »

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