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Kazuo Kuroki – Utsukushii natsu kirishima AKA A Boy’s Summer in 1945 (2002)
Quote:Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki’s sixth decade behind the camera, “A Boy’s Summer in 1945” (literally “A Beautiful Summer in Kirishima”) is a lyric, novelistic drama set...
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Kinji Fukasaku – Funky Hat no kaidanji: Nisenman-en no ude aka Hepcat in the...
Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba returns as the reckless son of a private detective takes on the case of a minor league baseball pitcher who disappears right before signing a contract into the major leagues....
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Yûzô Kawashima – Bakumatsu Taiyoden aka Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate...
Synopsis:Set in the last few years of the shogun’s rule, this period/ensemble movie depicts the lives of the young and the restless at a whorehouse. The protagonist is Saheiji, a resourceful, witty...
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Yoshishige Yoshida – Kokuhakuteki Joyûron AKA Confessions Among Actresses (1971)
Synopsis:The film’s narrative follows three leading actresses, all appearing in the same movie (but not appearing in the same shot until the end of the film), and all undergoing their own personal...
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Shunichi Nagasaki – Yawaraka na hou AKA A Tender Place (2001)
Trainee designer Kasumi has married her employer in Tokyo, the manager of a design workshop, and has had a two-year affair with one of his clients. She and her unsuspecting husband are vacationing in...
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Tetsuji Takechi – Genji monogatari (1966) (HD)
Quote: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...
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Isao Takahata – Hotaru no haka AKA Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Quote:Isao Takahata‘s Hotaru no Haka (The Grave of the Fireflies, 1988) is a brilliant piece of cinema. Set in Kobe, Japan, in 1945, the film focuses on a brother and sister who are left orphaned and...
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Kazuhiko Yamaguchi – Aku no shin’eitai AKA Troops of Darkness (1971)
A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind. 1.07GB | 1h 26m | 640×480 | mkv...
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Toshiaki Toyoda – Nakimushi Shottan No Kiseki AKA The Miracle Of Crybaby...
Toshiaki Toyoda takes on the true story of Shogi (Japanese chess) player Shoji “Shottan” Segawa. Despite consistent dedication, Shottan (Ryuhei Matsuda) fails to go professional by the time he’s 26,...
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Toshiaki Toyoda – Go Seppuku Yourselves (2021)
Completing Toshiaki Toyoda’s politically urgent Resurrection Trilogy following Wolf’s Calling (2019) and The Day of Destruction (2020), this electrifying short follows a man tasked with assisting in...
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Kenchi Iwamoto – Kikuchi (1991)
Saddled with a slavish, boring laundry job and no social life whatsoever, Kikuchi rarely leaves his bare apartment except to follow home and spy on a supermarket check-out girl. But there’s no one he...
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Yoshihiro Nakamura – Bûsu AKA The Booth (2005)
Shogo (Ryuta Sato) is the host of “Love Lines,” a late night radio call-in show where he offers advice and/or sarcastic remarks to the lovelorn. On this night, the station is in the process of...
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Tomoya Kainuma – Hitori kakurenbo (2008)
Synopsis“I have to play hide and seek by myself to escape my loneliness.” So starts a blog on a mysterious website which quickly spreads like wildfire, starting a dangerous online game. At 3:00 in the...
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Mariko Miyagi – Niji o kakeru kodomo-tachi AKA Children Drawing Rainbows (1975)
Quote:Mariko Miyagi is back documenting the activities of disabled children from her own school, Nemunoki. This time, the whole documentary focuses itself on the powers of creativity and drawing....
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Mariko Miyagi – Kodomotachi ganbare AKA Hello, Kids! (1986)
Quote:The fourth film in a four-part documentary film depicting children of a nursing home for the physically handicapped, Nemunoki Gakuen, which celebrated its 45th anniversary. Projecting friendship...
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Satsuo Yamamoto – Botan-dôrô AKA Peony Lantern Ghost Story (1968)
Quote:Shinzaburo flees an unwanted marriage with his brother’s widow and lives quietly as a teacher distanced from his family. On the night of the summer Obon festival, he meets a beautiful courtesan...
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Tetsuji Takechi – Kôkeimu AKA The Dream Of The Red Chamber (1964)
Quote:Takechi’s third film, The Dream of the Red Chamber or Crimson Dream (Kokeimu, 1964), was released less than two months after Daydream. The film depicts the lurid and violently erotic dreams of a...
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Masato Hara – Hatsukuni Shirasumera Mikoto AKA The First Emperor [Remastered...
Quote:In 1971, Hara Masato and a group or actors started shooting his 16mm film, The First Emperor, based on an old Japanese book about history and myths that is known as the Kojiki (‘Record of...
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Kenkichi Hara – Kotobuki-za (1945)
First released on 28 June 1945.The war was about to end in two months. Every major city in Japan would have been burnt to the ground.At such a time, or perhaps precisely at such a time, a romantic...
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Mariko Miyagi – Nemunoki no uta ga kikoeru AKA Mariko-Mother (1977)
Quote:Mariko-Mother is the second film in a four-part documentary film, directed depicting the children of Nemunoki Gakuen, a nursing home for the physically handicapped. It is a video poetry that...
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