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This biopic is centered on New Year's Day of 1894, when Kitamura is recovering from a suicide attempt. Japan is then under the spell of fervent patriotism because the government wants to build up public support for a war with China. Kitamura's literary friends and militant comrades come to visit. They wonder why Kitamura wants to kill himself. Kitamura at first refuses to receive them, then he sits down with them and looks back on his days as a civil rights militant, his stormy love life and his ardent but destructive desire to live literature to the full.
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Yumi, an exceptionally beautiful call girl, has a close call with death when a client forces her to die with him. An old cop pities her and agrees to be her guarantor so that she could join a Nishijin weaver workshop. Yumi wishes to put her dark past behind her, but she's exposed by an ex-client. Despite the unwavered support of the old cop, she sees no way out and uses her seductive body again to get what she wants. Hiroyuki, her co-worker at the weaver workshop, is a pure-hearted young man who may redeem Yumi from her deadly path as a femme fatale.
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Eros Eterna tells the story of a legendary immortal nun who wanders around encountering several people of various conditions.
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Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), imperial loyalist who tried to unite the Choshu and Satsuma clans and prepared the way for the Meiji Restoration (1868).
Producer
Basada en antiguas leyendas japonesas, la película describe la vida de Himiko, emperatriz que gobernó el Antiguo Japón durante el siglo III, y la religiosidad de la sociedad japonesa de esta época.
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Historia de la conmovedora amistad entre un joven y un anciano, que arrastra dentro de sí trágicos secretos que le han venido atormentando a lo largo de su vida. El anciano los va contando poco a poco a su joven discípulo, empezando por sus días de estudiante, con el sentimiento/sensación de culpabilidad que han provocado y la consiguiente angustia moral a lo largo del profundo cambio cultural que caracterizó a Japón.
Co-Producer
A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.
Producer
Follows the fluctuating fortunes of three ronin in feudal Japan who wander from castle to castle, selling their services to whichever lord will fill their rice bowls. Though they use the servants' entrance, they still feel themselves bound by the samurai code of Bushido; and this tension leads to tragedy.
Executive Producer
Shunkin es una maestra ciega de shamisen y koto (instrumentos musicales japoneses). Ella atormenta y tortura a sus estudiantes, incluyendo a su siempre fiel aprendiz/servidor/amante, Sasuke. Cuando uno de sus enemigos vierte agua hirviendo sobre su cara, dejándole cicatrices para toda la vida, Sasuke adopta todo tipo de medidas para asegurarse de no volver ya a ver la cara de ella. La historia es contada por su antigua criada, en un asilo de ancianos, a un investigador, personaje interpretado por el propio director sin acreditar.
Executive Producer
Sunaoko come to Okinawa to find his brother Tsuruo. Her searching is not very painless because it tears up old wounds in complicated relationships, some of which date back to the horrors of war.
Executive Producer
La película se centra en las acciones de un movimiento revolucionario. Una facción, con un líder llamado October, asalta un depósito de armamento americano y toma varias bombas de mano. Durante la huida, varios soldados son asesinados y October se queda ciego por una explosión. Es declarado incapaz por los líderes del movimiento y envía a Winter's February, líder de otra facción, para recoger el resto de bombas de October...
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Adaptación de la novela de Shusaku Endo, la película de Shinoda coescrita con Endo, explora el violento conflicto cultural que se produce a la llegada de misioneros jesuitas a Japón en el siglo XVII.
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A rebel youth joins a duo of entertainers only able to communicate by gesturing; when the female performer is suddenly abducted, he and Takeru must take action.
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About two student couples who become members of an obscure sect. The cult seeks a prehistoric utopia with free sex and without society's norms and values. The students are torn between ambient pressure and the sect leader's authority to organ music in the creative camera angles.
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Un estudio fascinante sobre la época de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y de la postguerra en Japón, a través de los ojos de un joven perteneciente a una familia poderosa. Es quizá el trabajo más autobiográfico del director. En efecto, Oshima creció durante esa época, en circunstancias similares, y era descendiente de una importante familia de samuráis.
