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Kazuo Kuroki – Tomorrow – ashita (1988)
Quote: On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsuharu Inoue, describes the daily life of people in Nagasaki the day before that fateful...
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Takashi Makino – Ghost of OT 301 (2014)
Inspired by live performance of Inconsolable Ghost at OT301, Amsterdam. Images by Makino Takashi. Music by Inconsolable Ghost ———————– Most likely my favourite film of all time; the greatest sensory...
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Takashi Makino – Still in Cosmos (2009)
Quote: A product purposed of an installation project held at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Recomposed as completed film work in 2009. It originally was theme for “Complete Chaos”...
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Sogo Ishii – Kuruizaki Sanda Rodo aka Crazy Thunder Road (1980)
Synopsis Jin, an antagonistic youth, tries to take over a motorcycle gang once its leader, Ken, announces he’s going to retire and settle down with his girlfriend. But things aren’t so easy for Jin....
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Kôji Wakamatsu – 11·25 jiketsu no hi: Mishima Yukio to wakamono-tachi AKA AKA...
On November 25th 1970, a man committed ritual suicide inside the Tokyo headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Defence, leaving behind a legacy of masterpieces and a controversy that echoes to this...
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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Toki o kakeru shôjo AKA The Little Girl Who Conquered...
Quote: Tomoyo Harada is an average student in high school. She has an old friend Toshinori Omi who goes to the same school, and Ryoichi Takayanagi who is also her classmate, but is not quite the old...
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Katsuhiro Otomo & Yoshiaki Kawajiri & Rintaro – Meikyû monogatari AKA...
From AMG: Neo-Tokyo consists of three fast-paced tales set in a surreal cyberpunk landscape. Most of the tales center around either cops pursuing criminals or criminals running from the cops — none of...
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Hiroshi Shimizu – Hanagata senshu aka A Star Athlete (1937)
Quote: From acquarello at Strictly Film School Blog: Hiroshi Shimizu’s government-pressured, militarism-era film A Star Athlete is a breezy, refreshingly lighthearted, and subtly subversive...
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Mikio Naruse – Tsuma no kokoro aka A Wife’s Heart (1956)
Quote: The best moments of A Wife’s Heart involve things not said or seen and this is most explicit in the interactions between Kiyoko (Hideko Takamine) and her bank clerk bachelor confidant Kenkichi...
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Kon Ichikawa – Bonchi (1960)
Where Ichikawa skewered patriarchal family values in Her Brother, in this savage satire he hoists the matriarchal system on its own apron strings. Raizo Ichikawa (“in his best role yet”-Variety) is...
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Tokyo Sonata (2008)
Quote: After a retreat to the atmospheric and spectral Loft and Retribution that reinforce Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s reputation as a horror filmmaker, Tokyo Sonata continues in the vein of his...
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Tokuzô Tanaka – Daisatsujin orochi aka The Betrayal (1966)
Synopsis: An absolutely fabulous film, featuring an extended fight scene (~10minutes!) that is the best since SWORD OF DOOM! Far and away Raizo Ichikawa’s best fighting ever!!! He plays an honorable...
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Yuriko Furuhata – Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the...
During the 1960s and early 1970s, Japanese avant-garde filmmakers intensely explored the shifting role of the image in political activism and media events. Known as the “season of politics,” the era...
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Hiroshi Inagaki – Muhomatsu no issho AKA The Life of Matsu the Untamed (1943)
This simple human-interest/love story belies the cinematic triumph of its creation. Although shown in 1981 at Japan House in New York, the film dates from 1943 and so was obviously first released in...
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Kôzaburô Yoshimura – Genji monogatari (1951)
Based on the classic novel by Murasaki Shikibu, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the nobility of Kyoto for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot...
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Nagisa Ôshima – Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence aka Furyo (1983)
Quote: Here’s a movie that is even stranger than it was intended to be. “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” is about a clash between two cultures (British and Japanese) and two styles of military service...
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Heinosuke Gosho – Entotsu no mieru basho AKA Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953)
Quote: Winner of the International Peace Prize at the 1953 Berlin Film Festival and considered “one of the really important postwar Japanese films, Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the...
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SABU – Ryu san AKA Mr. Long (2017)
Long is a Taiwanese killer known for his sword skills. After Long fails a Tokyo mission, he moves to a small town where no one knows about him. 675MB | 2h 3mn | 720×300 | mkv...
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Isao Yukisada – Kita no zeronen aka Year one in the north (2005)
Quote: In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of Hokkaido. These people once supported the now...
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Akio Jissôji – Ijmete kudasai Henrietta AKA Arietta (1989)
Synopsis: A young widow (Keiko Kaja) becomes an SM call girl to pay off the debts accumulated by her yakuza husband. She’s a depressed woman, merely going through the motions of existence, subjected...
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