Production Design
Tatsuo and Ikuo have been raised by hard-working parents who run a funeral home. For relief, they practice games of manzai, a Japanese comic vaudeville. Tatsuo grows up to be a handsome chick magnet, while Ikuo is nerdy and unappealing. He spies on his brother to get material for their reality porn show. The show is bleeped heavily, and their bleep language becomes trendy and makes them stars.
Art Direction
A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle engineer.
Art Direction
Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. When they meet, they are surprised how identical they look.
Art Direction
Aido is a beautiful woman cursed with an insatiable appetite for sex. After an affair with a young student, she engages in several other affairs in which she can no longer tell fantasy from reality.
Production Design
Una mujer casada deja a su amante hacerle fotos de desnudos. Las fotos terminan en manos de un hombre que empieza a chantajear a la pareja.
Art Direction
Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the love to his mother.
Art Direction
Ésta es una de las dos películas de Oshima sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La presa muestra las enormes diferencias que existían entre los japoneses durante el conflicto bélico. Un piloto de raza negra es abatido y encerrado en un almacén de un pueblo japonés, donde los niños que lo encontraron lo tratan con una gran crueldad. Su raza se convierte en foco de interés para los vecinos, que apenas han tenido contactos con las gentes del mundo occidental.
Art Direction
Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically threatened by a volcano on one side and tidal waves on the other. Yukio's younger sister Setsu follows then and dreams of becoming a pearl diver. Toru is preparing to go fishing with his father when a bell tolls and a danger flag is hung high on the hill behind the village to warn of an impending tidal wave by the village patriarch, known as Old Gentleman.
