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A young man wanders and makes calls to elders who live alone. Saying “Granny, it’s me,” he lies to them that he is their grandson. An old lady, who runs a music shop in the declining shopping area in Amakusa, answers his call and warmly accepts him. Pretending as her grandson, he settles down in the town. He gets used to his friendship with young villagers, the sound and landscape of Amakusa, and the old lady’s everyday life.
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Ryo reads a short story written by Banana Yoshimoto.
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TV remake of Ozu's 'Late Spring'
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Film about Sakamoto Ryōma. The focus is on Oryo, the maid who became Ryoma’s wife and lived with him for one year before his death.
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Produced for Fuji TV in 2000, the film reinterprets the story of a special samurai force - the Shinsengumi - at the end of the Edo period.
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Deep below the sea off the coast of Okinawa, the Ocean Technopolis is at the forefront of humankind's efforts to adapt to catastrophically rising sea levels, but it's caught in the middle of escalating tensions between Japan and Taiwan. Based on the 1995 novel by Katsufumi Umehara.
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He pulls out a pair of scissors that tends toward the sky. So begins his journey through time, space and memory. Seasons change, years pass. Wrapped in a mysterious box of sunset, the boy grows older, becomes adolescent, young man, adult, old, but - strangely - the memories are beginning to lead their own lives. "What memory, what reverie, what is real and what is imaginary? I do not know ... "
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Period piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have lost her memory.
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The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh theater, his granddaughter or grandson.
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Based on the non-fiction books by Takushi Ono (the NHK announcer, not the gymnast) and Yoshinari Tobe.
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Memory and reincarnation. The catalog and the anthology is an essential aspect of the art of Ando. His memories are assembled an oblique self-portrait. Ando explores his room and admits that he loves the goods correspond to an image of himself. He suggests that the objects once owned turn. They are associated with memories, and can be juxtaposed.
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Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju and says she will become his wife...
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En el siglo XVIII, durante una noche de luna llena, una luz cegadora aparece en un bosque de bambú cerca de la capital japonesa. Un artesano y su mujer encuentran un precioso bebé en una cuna de oro, llevando en sus manos una brillante bola de cristal. El artesano vende la cuna de oro y construye una mansión lejos de la ciudad para esconder a la niña de los ojos de los demás, ya que crece tan rápidamente que todo el mundo dudaría que es humana. Pronto se extiende el rumor de la belleza de una misteriosa joven llamada Kana, y tres nobles, incluyendo un joven ministro, desean hacerla su esposa. Una noche, cuando la luna está completa, el cristal de Kana comienza a brillar y emite un inquietante sonido. Es un mensaje de su hogar, la luna. Kana debe partir la próxima noche de luna llena...
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Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.
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