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Tamizo Ishida – Orizo nan henge AKA Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (1941)
Maya Grohn wrote:The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo, which was published in a magazine called “KING”, the most popular magazine of its time. This type of magazine was deemed too...
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Shun Ikezoe – See You in My Dreams (2020)
Shun Ikezoe wrote:By the time you wake up, they might be gone―For me, “mother” means my grandmother, who raised me with undying affection. She is gradually dying. I thought that I would definitely...
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Buntarô Futagawa – Orochi AKA Serpent (1925)
This is the story of a samurai who falls on hard times due to misunderstandings and and follows the plots of his enemies. 1.38GB | 1h 13m | 648×486 | mkv...
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Takashi Ito – Wall (1987)
Takashi Ito wrote:The further developed and completed version of a 15-second advertisement for an interior design firm on which I had worked. It repeats over and over again the violent back-and-forth,...
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Takashi Ito – Miira no yume AKA The Mummy’s Dream (1989)
Takashi Ito wrote:The filmic version of a city in which all surface beauty has rotted away. In order to find images of death like landscapes of the city from which people have vanished, and buildings...
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Rei Hayama – Dormant Soil/Concrete Reflections (Online Version) (2021)
A response to a poem about concrete and city, by way of fauna and nature. 581MB | 18m 48s | 1920×1080 | mkv...
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Takashi Ito – Ghost (1984)
Takashi Ito wrote:I made this work because I wanted to try out the idea of floating images in midair that had come to me when making Thunder. The entire work was shot frame-by-frame with long...
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Takashi Ito – Grim (1985)
A sensuous ghost haunts a flat in this unusual ode to plain, generic areas.Takashi Ito wrote:With this work, I developed/fleshed out the idea I had when making Ghost of peeling only the skin from...
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Yukihiro Sawada – Hangyaku no Melody AKA Melody of Rebellion (1970)
Quote:The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu (Yoshio Harada) to stray from the crime family’s fold. He roamed the streets as a one man band, wearing a denim jacket and long hair with...
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Yasuzô Masumura – Otto ga mita ‘Onna no kobako’ yori AKA The Husband...
Synopsis:The young owner of the nightclub,Ishizuka(Jiro Tamiya) is attracted toa beautiful married woman, Namiko(Ayako Wakao) and is falling in love with her. However, Ishizuka forms a plot to take...
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Isao Yamada – Lynx Reel (1987)
Why do people wave their hands when they say goodbye? We embark on a dreamlike journey from Borges’ ‘The Circular Ruins’. Filmed in 16mm by filmmaker, graphic artist and manga author Isao Yamada....
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Ryûsuke Hamaguchi & Kou Sakai – Utau hito AKA Storytellers (2013)
Quote:Part of a trilogy focusing on the Tohoku region that is comprised of dialogues with victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake. Ideas on how to share experiences of the disaster with future...
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Rima Yamazaki – Nakagin Capsule Tower: Japanese Metabolist Landmark on the...
The Nakagin Capsule Tower, designed by Kisho Kurokawa and completed in 1972, is an exemplary work of post-war Japanese architectural movement Metabolism. Today, however, this historic building is in...
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Miwa Nishikawa – Yureru AKA Sway (2006)
Quote:On the anniversary of the death of the mother of a hip and happening Tokyo-based photographer, the son returns to his hometown for the funeral. What follows is a return to the past that is more...
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Masahiro Shinoda – Shamisen to ootobai aka Love New and Old (1961)
Quote:A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child. Directed by Masahiro Shinoda. Quote:This early Shinoda film is about a...
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Arthur Harari – Onoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle AKA Onoda: 10,000 Nights...
When Japan surrenders at the end of World War II, soldier Hiroo Onoda retreats into the jungles of the Philippines to continue the war himself for another 10,000 days. 3.84GB | 2h 46m | 1024×552 | mkv...
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Kinji Fukasaku – Funky Hat no kaidanji AKA Hepcat In The Funky Hat (1961)
Ichiro (Chiba) is a scrappy little sport in a big car and funny hat always looking for some fun and some extra cash on the side. He and his friends get themselves involved in some shady business...
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Sabu AKA Hiroyuki Tanaka – Kanikôsen AKA The Crab Cannery Ship (2009)
Based on Takiji Kobayashi’s 1929 novel “Kanikosen”. Quote:Aboard the Japanese crab ship ‘Kanikosen’ equipped with a cannery facility, workers are forced to labor under pitiful conditions at minimum...
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Hiroshi Inagaki – Miyamoto Musashi kanketsuhen: kettô Ganryûjima AKA Samurai...
Synopsis:Hiroshi Inagaki’s acclaimed Samurai Trilogy is based on the novel that has been called Japan’s Gone with the Wind. This sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai Musashi...
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Hiroshi Inagaki – Zoku Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijôji no kettô AKA Samurai II:...
Synopsis:Hiroshi Inagaki’s acclaimed Samurai Trilogy is based on the novel that has been called Japan’s Gone with the Wind. This sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai Musashi...
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