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Masao Adachi’s first new film in six years that secretly started filming at the end of August. About the life of Tetsuya Yamagami, suspected assassin of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.Read More »
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Masao Adachi – Revolution+1 (2022)
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Ken’ichirô Nishiumi – Dô shiyô mo nai koi no uta AKA A Helpless Love Song (2018)
2011-2020DramaJapanKen'ichirô NishiumiRomanceAfter experiencing failure in business and his marriage, Mitsutoshi Yashiro walks around looking for a place to die. He decides to stop at a red light district shop to have sex for one last time. He meets Hina who changes his life.Read More »
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Zenzô Matsuyama – Sanga ari AKA Mother Country AKA The Bridge Between (1962)
1961-1970DramaJapanZenzô MatsuyamaIn 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married soon. With the soil that is hard to work and the subtroipical climate, the immigrants have to cope with a hard life. But after years of hard work, Yoshio finds work as a teacher while his wife manages to open a small grocery store. But with the war around the corner, life becomes more and more complicated for the Japanese immigrants in a foreign country.
Zenzo Matsuyama’s second feature film, starring Takahiro Tamura and Matsuyama’s wife Hideko Takamine.Read More »
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Kore-eda Hirokazu – Kaibutsu AKA Monster (2023)
2021-2030DramaJapanKore-eda HirokazuMysteryPLOT: When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to know what’s going on. But as the story unfolds through the eyes of mother, teacher and child, the truth gradually emerges.Read More »
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Mikio Naruse – Meshi AKA Repast (1951)
1951-1960ArthouseDramaJapanMikio NaruseIn many of his most successful films, Naruse depicted common people, living their lives. With Repast the director set his characters to the task of navigating their way amidst a pungent atmosphere of fading love. Set shortly after World War II, Repast is about a struggling marriage between salaryman Hatsunosuke (Ken Uehara) and his wife Michiyo (Setsuko Hara). It focuses on the emotional crisis of the bored housewife. The tedium of her domestic life – consumed by repetitive tasks such as cooking and cleaning – is brought into focus by a visit from Hatsunosuke’s niece, Satoko (Yukiko Shimazaki). Satoko’s arrival, and the amount of attention Hatsunosuke devotes to her charms, leads to further unhappiness for Michiyo, who is forced to confront her future. In the hands of master director Naruse, this adaptation of an unfinished novel by Fumiko Hayashi offers a fascinating exploration of married life, from the habitual routine of everyday existence to the hope for a better tomorrow that may or may not keep such relationships alive. Eureka VideoRead More »
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Kenji Mizoguchi – Meito bijomaru AKA The Famous Sword Bijomaru (1945)
Kenji Mizoguchi1941-1950ClassicsDramaJapanSynopsis:
Kiyone Sakurai, an apprentice swordmaker makes a sword for his guardian, Kozaemon Onoda. Onoda breaks the sword while defending his lord which eventually leads to his death at the hands of Naito, when Naito demands to marry his daughter Sasae. Sasae vows to avenge her father’s death and pleads for Kiyone Sakurai to make a special sword for her. So Kiyone and his fellow swordmaker Kiyotsugu go to the master swordsmith Kiyohide Yamatomori to learn their craft and forge the sword.Read More » -
Shinobu Hashimoto – Maboroshi no mizuumi aka Lake of Illusions (1982) (HD)
1981-1990JapanSci-FiShinobu HashimotoA 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 » -
Kazuya Shiraishi – Mesunekotachi AKA Dawn of the Felines (2017)
Kazuya Shiraishi2011-2020DramaJapanA story of three escort girls living in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. They work at the same escort service while feeling lonely in their urban lives.Read More »
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Kenji Mizoguchi – Yôkihi aka The Empress Yang Kwei Fei aka Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955)
1951-1960DramaJapanKenji MizoguchiRomanceYôkihi is a panoramic period romance about the legendarily beautiful and graceful common-born woman loved by the last T’ang Emperor Xuan Zong. The pure love shared by the royal couple is offset by the political turmoil and corruption of the 8th century, as a dynasty breathes its last dying gasps.Read More »