Kumiko Asô

  • Takeshi Kitano – Akiresu to kame AKA Achilles and the Tortoise (2008)

    2001-2010ComedyDramaJapanTakeshi Kitano
    Akiresu to kame (2008)
    Akiresu to kame (2008)

    Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.Read More »

  • Shôhei Imamura – Kanzô sensei AKA Dr. Akagi (1998)

    1991-2000ArthouseDramaJapanShohei Imamura

    The film concerns Dr. Akagi, a doctor on an island in the Seto Inland Sea area during World War II. He runs into conflict with the military while trying to combat a hepatitis epidemic. Akagi earns the nickname “Dr. Liver” (カンゾー先生 Kanzō-sensei) because of his work, though the townsfolk use it as a humorous dig at his persistent diagnosis. Though the broad circumstance of Japan slowly losing the war is the setting, many of the interactions and situations tilt into humor, for instance; the very music used for the doctor running from patient to patient has an upbeat and light-hearted tone.Read More »

  • Shinji Sômai – Kaza-hana (2000)

    1991-2000AsianDramaJapanShinji Sômai

    A haunting tale of destiny and life’s unpredictability: an elite bureaucrat, humbled by an incident which ruined his promising career, has a chance encounter with a glamorous hostess, heartbroken by her husband’s death.Read More »

  • Naoto Kumazawa – Oto-na-ri (2009)

    2001-2010AsianDramaJapanNaoto Kumazawa

    Photographer Satoshi has become famous while working among the rhich and famous. His photos are worh a million. But the young man dreams of taking photos of Canadian landscapes instead of working in the studio with the same people all the time. His dreams fall to pieces when he gets a job working with model Shingo. All his anger is targeted at Shingo’s girlfriend, who is staying at Satoshi for some time. Satoshi’s neighbour Nanao overhears their whole converstation. Florist Nanao has a dream herself: She wants to go to France and studies French language very hard. This is then overheard by Satoshi. Little by little the two start listening more and more to the sound of their neighbour.Read More »

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