Yoshi Oida

An old Parisian bistro with eternal charm. Eight gentlemen at the table, eight great figures. They were the “kings of Paris”… National treasures, masterpieces in peril. A well-honed ritual ... A sense of humor and self-deprecation intact. Tenderness and cruelty. Eight old friends who hate and love each other. And suddenly an intruder ...

A young girl, Sayaka, develops a heartwarming friendship with an old man named Hasu. Based on an award-winning novel by Ijuin Shizu.

El chef Mitsuru Sasaki (Kazunari Ninomiya) es un prodigioso cocinero capaz de elaborar cualquier plato solo con probarlo una vez. Está obsesionado con alcanzar la perfección, pero ha perdido su pasión por seguir cocinando, hasta el extremo de estar a punto arruinar su propio restaurante. A cambio de una gran suma de dinero, una persona desconocida le pedirá recrear la legendaria receta del chef Naotaro Yamagata (Hidetoshi Nishijima), perdida en Manchuria en 1930.

One night to change everything. One night to save a theater, one night to change one's perspective about life. Luigi will push and pull Faeza with him everywhere around Paris an entire night to save his theater.

An adaptation of Matsuo Basho's poem Travelogue of Weather-Beaten Bones.

Dos sacerdotes jesuitas, Sebastião Rodrigues y Francis Garrpe, viajan al Japón del siglo XVII que, bajo el shogunato Tokugawa, prohibió el catolicismo y casi todos los contactos extranjeros. Allí son testigos de la persecución de los cristianos japoneses a manos de su propio gobierno que desea purgar Japón de toda influencia occidental. Eventualmente los sacerdotes se separan y Rodrigues viaja por el campo, preguntándose por qué Dios permanece en silencio mientras Sus hijos sufren.

Mistaken for a dangerous Islamist, Saadi - a regular guy who happens to be an illegal Arab immigrant - sets out on the most dangerous day of his life. A satirical and thrilling comedy where a wrongly accused suspect gets mixed up in a worldwide terrorist plot.

16 years after the fateful "revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin," involving samurais from the Ako domain who avenged their leader and then commited seppuku (ritual suicide), the sole survivor of that incident, Kichiemon Terasaka (Koichi Sato) traverses the country on a mission. His purpose is to find the families of the fallen samurais and spread the truth of the ronin uprising.

Diane Siprien (Monica Bellucci) es una científica francesa que adopta a un niño en una región próxima a Mongolia. Pasado cierto tiempo, empiezan a ocurrir hechos extraños, como la aparición de una marca en el pecho del pequeño. Aunque el médico no le da importancia, Diane empieza a sospechar que quienes la rodean llevan mucho tiempo esperando algo relacionado con su hijo. Así las cosas, decide ir a Mongolia para averiguar el origen del niño. (FILMAFFINITY)

Carmen, a bonobo female, flees from the research center in linguistics where she is being kept. She takes refuge at a young couple's place, Mercier and his pregnant wife Myriam. Mercier, beginning at a new job, is reluctant to welcome the ape. But Myriam makes friend with her.

Hubert Fiorentini es un inspector de policía con unos métodos un poco ortodoxos, pero con un tierno corazón, al que obligatoriamente le darán unas vacaciones forzadas, ya que acaba de pelearse con el hijo del jefe de policía. Dos días después recibe la llamada de un abogado desde Tokyo, informándole que Miko, la mujer de su vida, que había desaparecido hacía 20 años, había muerto. Y lo que le había dejado en el testamento, no era ni dinero, ni presentes, ni nada material; le había dejado a su propia hija, Yumi, una extravagante adolescente, adicta a ir de compras, y con doscientos millones de dólares en su cuenta.

Taxi 2 cuenta la historia del ministro de Defensa japonés visitando Marsella para conocer las técnicas anti-gangster de los policías de la ciudad. Sin embargo, durante la visita es secuestrado por un grupo trabajando para los yakuza. El joven agente Emilien es designado a rescatar el ministro y la agente y novia Petra, también secuestrada, y devolver el honor a su departamento. Otra vez más, el rápido conductor de taxi Daniel es llamado para ayudarlo con sus dotes de conducción en su Peugeot 406..

Tragic love story about the photographer and explorer Felice Beato who travelled back to Japan in 1895 to seek his former wife O-Kiku. On the way he describes in a nostalgic letter to his brother how much he yearns for his lost love O-Kiku and how impotent he feels in an ancient Japan subject to rapid change. The journey takes him to Nagasaki and Moji, Onomichi, Mount Fuji, Yokohama and Tokyo. Places he once visited with his beloved and where he now no longer understands the people. Felice...Felice... is inspired by hand-coloured nineteenth century photos taken by e.g. Felice Beato, Sjimooka Renjo and Baron von Stilfried. In this film, shot entirely in a studio, the photos depict Felice's journey. Awarded the Golden Calf for Best Feature film in 1998. (NFF)

Nakaura of Julian (Julião Nakaura), a priest of the Society of Jesus, was one of four young ambassadors sent to Rome by the Jesuits in 1538, as proof that Japan had converted to Christianity. Fifty years after the mission, which so fascinated European royalty, Julian was forced again to prove his faith, only this time before a Shogun, who wanted to force him to abandon his religion. Julian resists, as does Miguel Chijiwa, a fellow at the embassy to Rome, who become a martyr. Betrayed by Cristóvão Ferreira, who cannot bear the torture, Julian suffers an inglorious death ... or maybe not.

En Kyoto, en los años 70, un anciano calígrafo escribe con gran delicadeza una felicitación en la cara de su hija el día de su cumpleaños. Cuando se hace mayor, Nagiko recuerda emocionada aquel regalo, y busca al amante calígrafo ideal que utilice todo su cuerpo como una hoja en blanco...

Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha, seeks to fulfill her dreams through marriage to an American naval officer. Her faith in their future is shattered by his empty vows and the loss she endures touches something deep within us all.

Georg works up at the highway. He collects the toll from the tourists; he collects the toll from the truck drivers. All of Europe has to go by him. Below, in the shadow of the mighty bridge, Georg lives with his parents in an old farmhouse with its empty stall. Georg makes a career for himself. And then, he falls in love with a young farm woman. He must decide between love and his job.

One of the great masterpieces of world literature comes to vivid life in an elaborate production from acclaimed theater and film innovator Peter Brook. This collection of ancient Sanskrit stories (composed into the longest book ever written) comprises a series of enlightened fables at the heart of countless beliefs, legends, and teachings; indeed, its very title means "the great story of mankind." Brook and writer Jean-Claude Carriere worked for eight years to develop this epic concerning two sides of a royal family, the Pandavas and the Kauravas, whose struggle leads to a fascinating voyage of emotions, passion and vision of glory. Briefly, the Mahabharata is a tale of two rival sets of brothers, cousins to eachother, each born into royalty and with divinely guided paths in life. The result, however, is a great war, death, destruction - a vast epic.