Writer
A schoolteacher's life is disrupted by a chime that brings with it an increasing sense of dread.
Director
A schoolteacher's life is disrupted by a chime that brings with it an increasing sense of dread.
Himself
An exploration of the spirit world as portrayed in the height of the J-horror era of the late ‘90s.
How did a single ‘Big in Japan’ videotape change the course of global horror history? Find out in this insightful documentary charting the origins, evolution and diffusion across the world of a distinctive brand of Japanese supernatural chillers featuring vengeful ghosts manifesting themselves through contemporary technology against a backdrop of urban alienation and social decay. From PSYCHIC VISION: JAGANREI (1988) and straight-to-video SCARY TRUE STORIES to such key titles as RING (1998), PULSE (2001) and THE GRUDGE (2002), critics and filmmakers reflect on how the bleak Dystopian visions and unsettling atmospheres infiltrated their way into the world’s shocker consciousness.
Director
Nakanishi Aruno is disliked and bullied by other Nogizaka46 members because she's different from them. After one of them lock Aruno and tell her to not come back, she decides to come back definitely.
Writer
Yusaku (Issey Takahashi) es el director de una compañía comercial en Kobe (Japón), y está casado con Satoko (Yu Aoi). En un viaje a Manchuria durante 1940, Yusaku descubre un terrible secreto nacional. En nombre de la justicia decide hacerlo público, lo que le convierte al instante en un enemigo público. Sin embargo, Satoko asegura creerle y jura que estará a su lado independientemente de las consecuencias.
Director
Yusaku (Issey Takahashi) es el director de una compañía comercial en Kobe (Japón), y está casado con Satoko (Yu Aoi). En un viaje a Manchuria durante 1940, Yusaku descubre un terrible secreto nacional. En nombre de la justicia decide hacerlo público, lo que le convierte al instante en un enemigo público. Sin embargo, Satoko asegura creerle y jura que estará a su lado independientemente de las consecuencias.
Writer
Yoko es una joven reportera japonesa cuya personalidad es puesta a prueba cuando viaja a Uzbekistán para grabar el último episodio de su serie de viajes alrededor del mundo.
Director
Yoko es una joven reportera japonesa cuya personalidad es puesta a prueba cuando viaja a Uzbekistán para grabar el último episodio de su serie de viajes alrededor del mundo.
Self
A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic Alain Bergala and filmmaker Jean-Pierre Limosin, originally aired 18 March 2018.
Teleplay
Miyuki Asakawa tells her colleague Etsuko Yamagiwa that she has a ghost in her home. When Etsuko goes to Miyuki's home, there is only Miyuki's father there. Etsuko becomes worried about Miyuki's state of mind, and she takes Miyuki to the psychiatric hospital where her husband, Tatsuo, works. There, Miyuki receives a diagnosis that she lacks the concept of "family." Later, Etsuko tells Tatsuo that she is not comfortable with Dr. Jirō Makabe. Tatsuo introduced her to Dr. Makabe earlier at the hospital. Etsuko has a feeling of unease about her husband working with Dr. Makabe. One day, Etsuko hears Dr. Makabe state "I came to Earth to invade."
Director
Miyuki Asakawa tells her colleague Etsuko Yamagiwa that she has a ghost in her home. When Etsuko goes to Miyuki's home, there is only Miyuki's father there. Etsuko becomes worried about Miyuki's state of mind, and she takes Miyuki to the psychiatric hospital where her husband, Tatsuo, works. There, Miyuki receives a diagnosis that she lacks the concept of "family." Later, Etsuko tells Tatsuo that she is not comfortable with Dr. Jirō Makabe. Tatsuo introduced her to Dr. Makabe earlier at the hospital. Etsuko has a feeling of unease about her husband working with Dr. Makabe. One day, Etsuko hears Dr. Makabe state "I came to Earth to invade."
Screenplay
Narumi y Shinji atraviesan una mala racha en su matrimonio. Un día Shinji desaparece y cuando vuelve está totalmente transformado. Al mismo tiempo, una familia aparece brutalmente asesinada y extraños fenómenos empiezan a producirse en la ciudad. El periodista Sakurai empezará a investigar el misterio. (FILMAFFINITY)
Director
Narumi y Shinji atraviesan una mala racha en su matrimonio. Un día Shinji desaparece y cuando vuelve está totalmente transformado. Al mismo tiempo, una familia aparece brutalmente asesinada y extraños fenómenos empiezan a producirse en la ciudad. El periodista Sakurai empezará a investigar el misterio. (FILMAFFINITY)
Himself
An interview with cinematographer Junichiro Hayashi speaking about his work with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Himself
An interview with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa discussing his work in the horror genre from his V-cinema days to his 2001 released film Pulse
Writer
Jean empieza a trabajar como ayudante de un fotógrafo obsesionado con el arte arcaico de los daguerrotipos y atormentado por la muerte de su esposa, cuya presencia aún se nota entre las sombras. La primera película que Kiyoshi Kurosawa realiza fuera de Japón mezcla romanticismo e intriga, prolongando con naturalidad la concepción que el cineasta tiene de lo fantasmagórico.
Director
Jean empieza a trabajar como ayudante de un fotógrafo obsesionado con el arte arcaico de los daguerrotipos y atormentado por la muerte de su esposa, cuya presencia aún se nota entre las sombras. La primera película que Kiyoshi Kurosawa realiza fuera de Japón mezcla romanticismo e intriga, prolongando con naturalidad la concepción que el cineasta tiene de lo fantasmagórico.
Screenplay
Un policía retirado vuelve a investigar cuando un ex-colega le pide ayuda para resolver el caso de la desaparición de una familia, ocurrida 6 años antes. Mientras, el policía y su mujer se han trasladado a vivir a una nueva casa, donde tendrán de vecino a un extraño personaje.
Director
Un policía retirado vuelve a investigar cuando un ex-colega le pide ayuda para resolver el caso de la desaparición de una familia, ocurrida 6 años antes. Mientras, el policía y su mujer se han trasladado a vivir a una nueva casa, donde tendrán de vecino a un extraño personaje.
Screenplay
Desaparecido en el mar, a Yusuke, marido de Mizuki, se le había dado por muerto durante 3 años. De repente, un día vuelve a casa y le pregunta a Mizuki si quiere ir de viaje con él. El trayecto consistirá en ir visitando a todas las personas que ayudaron a Yusuke en su viaje anterior, aquel en el que se le dio por muerto. Mientras viajan juntos, Mizuki siente en primera persona todo lo que Yusuke hizo en esos tres años.
Director
Desaparecido en el mar, a Yusuke, marido de Mizuki, se le había dado por muerto durante 3 años. De repente, un día vuelve a casa y le pregunta a Mizuki si quiere ir de viaje con él. El trayecto consistirá en ir visitando a todas las personas que ayudaron a Yusuke en su viaje anterior, aquel en el que se le dio por muerto. Mientras viajan juntos, Mizuki siente en primera persona todo lo que Yusuke hizo en esos tres años.
Self
En 1962, los cineastas Alfred Hitchcock y François Truffaut se encerraron para tener una larga conversación de cincuenta horas y quinientas preguntas sobre el cine del maestro del suspense. Hitchcock se encontraba en la cima de su creatividad, y Truffaut ya había hecho Los 400 golpes y Tirad sobre el pianista. El resultado fue el libro El cine según Hitchcock, un texto imprescindible para los amantes y estudiosos del séptimo arte.
Self
En 1982 un pequeño grupo de cineastas taiwaneses reinventó el cine asiático, entre ellos, Hou Hsiao-Hsien y Edward Yang. Viajar desde Europa a América Latina a Asia, Flowers of Taipei se propone evaluar la influencia global del nuevo cine de Taiwán.
Self
The image of a mysterious, solitary filmmaker - a cineaste maudit - who flees from both the media and the public, is unrelentingly bound to the figure of Leos Carax, in France. Elsewhere, the real focus is on his films and he is considered to be an icon of world cinema. Mr.X dives into the poetic and visionary world of an artist who was already a cult figure from his very first film. Punctuated by interviews and unseen footage, this documentary is most of all a fine-tuned exploration of the poetic and visionary world of Leos Carax, alias "Mr.X".
Director
Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him.
Self
Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him.
Writer
Akiko, a young woman, comes to Vladivostok to meet Matsunaga, a young businessman she has met in Tokyo only once. Akiko finally finds Matsunaga. However, he leaves her again, warning her not to trust strangers in a foreign country. She tries to follow him, but she is attacked by thugs and dumped on the outskirts of town.
Director
Akiko, a young woman, comes to Vladivostok to meet Matsunaga, a young businessman she has met in Tokyo only once. Akiko finally finds Matsunaga. However, he leaves her again, warning her not to trust strangers in a foreign country. She tries to follow him, but she is attacked by thugs and dumped on the outskirts of town.
Screenplay
Koichi y Atsumi se aman y se conocen desde niños. Atsumi está en coma tras una tentativa de suicidio. Con la intención de sacarla de esa situación, Koichi consigue conectar con el subconsciente de Atsumi a través del “sensing”, una nueva y extraña tecnología.
Director
Koichi y Atsumi se aman y se conocen desde niños. Atsumi está en coma tras una tentativa de suicidio. Con la intención de sacarla de esa situación, Koichi consigue conectar con el subconsciente de Atsumi a través del “sensing”, una nueva y extraña tecnología.
Teleplay
The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she was playing. The murder is never solved. Emili's mother, Asako, is torn by grief and puts a curse on the four girls when they claim not to remember the killer's face. Each of the girls, in their own way, will do penance for their silence.
Director
The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she was playing. The murder is never solved. Emili's mother, Asako, is torn by grief and puts a curse on the four girls when they claim not to remember the killer's face. Each of the girls, in their own way, will do penance for their silence.
Writer
While inspecting a wharf, young Amano, president of an urban planning company, meets beautiful laborer Takako and falls in love at first sight. However, she does not return his affections, so he steals her ID card and goes on the run from the infuriated Takako.
Director
While inspecting a wharf, young Amano, president of an urban planning company, meets beautiful laborer Takako and falls in love at first sight. However, she does not return his affections, so he steals her ID card and goes on the run from the infuriated Takako.
Self
Koji Shiraishi is interested in an indiscriminate attack at a sightseeing resort. He interviews the survivors and starts investigating the strange events that have been happening to them.
Writer
Una rutinaria familia nipona empieza a desintegrarse cuando el padre pierde su trabajo en una empresa que parecía tener un buen futuro...
Director
Una rutinaria familia nipona empieza a desintegrarse cuando el padre pierde su trabajo en una empresa que parecía tener un buen futuro...
Self
Martin Scorsese narra este homenaje a Val Lewton, el productor de una serie de memorables películas de terror de bajo presupuesto para los estudios RKO. Criado por su madre y su tía, sus películas incluyen a menudo personajes femeninos fuertes que se encuentran en situaciones difíciles y que tienen que crecer rápidamente. Él es el más recordado por las películas de terror que hizo en la RKO a partir de 1940. Comenzando con sólo un título - el primero fue "El beso de la pantera" - meticulosamente se encargaría de supervisar todos los aspectos de la finalización de la película. Aunque la categoría fuese de películas de terror, nunca sus películas mostraron un monstruo, dejando todo a la imaginación de espectadores, con la asistencia de la música, el humor y la iluminación. (FILMAFFINITY)
Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association
self
A new documentary on director Nobuo Nakagawa and the making of the film, Jigoku. Featuring exclusive interview with Nakagawa collaborators.
Writer
El detective Yoshioka intenta atrapar a un peligroso asesino en serie. La investigación toma un rumbo inquietante cuando sus propias huellas y varios objetos que le pertenecen aparecen en el lugar de los crímenes y hasta en los cadáveres de las víctimas. Todos los que le rodean empiezan a sospechar de él a medida que todo se torna más y más confuso para Yoshioka. Presente y pasado se funden en una especie de mundo paralelo que lo alejan cada vez más de la realidad. (FILMAFFINITY)
Director
El detective Yoshioka intenta atrapar a un peligroso asesino en serie. La investigación toma un rumbo inquietante cuando sus propias huellas y varios objetos que le pertenecen aparecen en el lugar de los crímenes y hasta en los cadáveres de las víctimas. Todos los que le rodean empiezan a sospechar de él a medida que todo se torna más y más confuso para Yoshioka. Presente y pasado se funden en una especie de mundo paralelo que lo alejan cada vez más de la realidad. (FILMAFFINITY)
Original Film Writer
¿Qué pasaría si las tecnologías inalámbricas se conectaran a otro mundo? ¿Y si ese otro mundo utilizara la tecnología para colarse en el nuestro? ¿Y si la conexión no pudiera interrumpirse?. Podrían meterse en nuestro mundo cada vez que encendiéramos el móvil o nos conectáramos al e-mail. Podrían contaminar todos nuestros aparatos... y podrían llevarse lo que ellos ya no tienen: la vida. "Pulse" está basada en la película de terror japonesa de 2001 "Kairo", escrita y dirigida por Kiyoshi Kurosawa, que cuenta la historia de un grupo de adolescentes japoneses que investigan una serie de suicidios relacionados con una webcam que ofrece a todo aquel que se conecte a ella la posibilidad de interactuar con los muertos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Professor Kawashima
Treinta y cinco años atrás, un profesor de universidad mata a once personas en un hotel y lo graba en vídeo. En la actualidad, un director de cine decide filmar una película sobre lo acontecido y para ello contrata a la reconocida actriz Sugiura Nagisa. Las pesadillas sobre lo ocurrido en el pasado serán sólo el inicio de una serie de inquietantes acontecimientos.
Screenplay
Reiko, una escritora de éxito de relatos románticos, se muda a un cómodo caserón junto a un bosque, y frente a la cual hay otro edificio deshabitado. Esa noche cree ver a un hombre trasladando un misterioso cuerpo, envuelto en telas, que parece una momia.
Director
Reiko, una escritora de éxito de relatos románticos, se muda a un cómodo caserón junto a un bosque, y frente a la cual hay otro edificio deshabitado. Esa noche cree ver a un hombre trasladando un misterioso cuerpo, envuelto en telas, que parece una momia.
Director
A married couple living in a house that seems to be inhabited by supernatural beings and beetles. The first of six movies in the Kazuo Umezz's Horror Theater.
Himself
Documentary filmmaker Kenjiro Fujii takes a look at the history of a distinctly Japanese brand of softcore pornography in this extensive examination of the "pinku eiga" genre (ピンク映画 Pinku eiga or Pinkeiga). For more than 40 years, so-called "pink" films have served as both a key source of revenue for the Japanese film industry as well as a launching pad for the careers of such mainstream filmmakers as Kiyoshi Kurosawa. After providing a detailed history of the still-profitable and popular genre through interviews with a variety of behind-the-scenes players and clips from such classic pink films as Fish Bait Boobies, director Fujii shifts his focus to the production of an upcoming pink film to offer a glimpse into the creative and stylistic evolution of the genre.
Director
Soul Dancing is an order placed to Kiyoshi Kurosawa by a Japanese alcoholic beverage brand named Shôchu. The director then uses this cine-commercial as an excuse to film a weird fable on the arrival of a stranger in a bloodless human community.
Editor
Hayasaki is an inventor working on an Artificial Body. It is not going well and he is stressed out and on the verge of being fired from the research division of his company. His doppelgänger appears to help him out of the rut he has created for himself.
Screenplay
Hayasaki is an inventor working on an Artificial Body. It is not going well and he is stressed out and on the verge of being fired from the research division of his company. His doppelgänger appears to help him out of the rut he has created for himself.
Director
Hayasaki is an inventor working on an Artificial Body. It is not going well and he is stressed out and on the verge of being fired from the research division of his company. His doppelgänger appears to help him out of the rut he has created for himself.
At some time in the 21st century, Japan's economy is in shambles. Riots and terrorism are the norm. The government buys up television stations in a last-ditch effort to promote nationalism and order to the nation. But this is the dawn of a new dark state. A new form of 3 on 3 basketball is developed in which anything goes, and the winner of the game is the team with the last man left standing.
Himself
Initially, Ambivalent Future was intended as a film about the production of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Bright Future". But director Fujii has taken the "behind the scenes"-concept to unprecedented heights with this unique documentary offering a close look into the world of Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the auteur. Scenes from the surprisingly low key and relaxed production of "Bright Future" are of course sprinkled liberally throughout the documentary, but between these we are treated to interesting and revealing interviews with actors, producers and Kurosawa's many other collaborators. And perhaps the most surprising thing of all is how much of Kurosawa there is, talking candidly about his working methods and the philosophy behind it all.
Editor
Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They become fascinated with a deadly jellyfish.
Writer
Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They become fascinated with a deadly jellyfish.
Director
Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They become fascinated with a deadly jellyfish.
Director
Each year, at the start of the fall school year in September, Japan suffers from typhoons. That same month, in a small elementary school in a mountainous region, Saburô, a new red-haired pupil has just arrived with the wind. The children of the village thought they recognized in this strange boy who came from the city the spirit that they called “Matasaburô, the wind”. During two weeks of autumn, Matasaburô and the other children will do various experiments in nature.
Creative Consultant
Rika es una joven que cuida a una anciana en cuya casa suceden cosas muy extrañas. Un día, Rika encuentra en el piso de arriba a un niño de seis años que lleva un gato negro en los brazos. Re-edición de "Ju On", realizada en el año 2000 por el propio Shimizu para vídeo.
Writer
Hace tiempo que Michi, Yunko y Yabe no tienen noticias de un amigo. Cuando Michi va a visitarlo a su casa lo encuentra un poco extraño. Aunque él dice encontrarse bien, al poco rato se encuentra colgado del techo. Por otro lado tenemos a Ryusuke, que prueba a conectarse a internet por primera vez, sin mucho éxito. De pronto su ordenador comienza a entrar solo en la red, y aparece una extraña página web, donde aparecen turbadoras imágenes de habitaciones oscuras y finalmente un inquietante mensaje: "¿Quieres ver un fantasma?".
Director
Hace tiempo que Michi, Yunko y Yabe no tienen noticias de un amigo. Cuando Michi va a visitarlo a su casa lo encuentra un poco extraño. Aunque él dice encontrarse bien, al poco rato se encuentra colgado del techo. Por otro lado tenemos a Ryusuke, que prueba a conectarse a internet por primera vez, sin mucho éxito. De pronto su ordenador comienza a entrar solo en la red, y aparece una extraña página web, donde aparecen turbadoras imágenes de habitaciones oscuras y finalmente un inquietante mensaje: "¿Quieres ver un fantasma?".
Director
Short film directed by Kurosawa Kiyoshi as part of the 学校の怪談物の怪スペシャル series centered around the legend of Hanako san.
A mother is accused of murdering her daughter but when she tells her tale, things don't seem to make sense. Her husband says they have no daughter, there's a psychic that can trace phone calls, a blonde who sings the US anthem, a house with no bathroom, some Lynchian dream sequences, aliens, breeding experiments, very quirky FBI agents, and some other random events.
Teleplay
Koji y Junco son un apacible matrimonio; él es técnico de sonido y ella tiene poderes extrasensoriales. Un día Koji va al bosque a grabar unos sonidos, sin darse cuenta, una niña que huye de un secuestrador se esconde en su maleta. Pasan los días y la policía pide ayuda a Junco para que les de datos de donde está la niña. Con sus poderes logra descubrir que la niña se encuentra en el maletín, en su propia casa. Pero decide ocultarlo e inicia un juego... (FILMAFFINITY)
Director
Koji y Junco son un apacible matrimonio; él es técnico de sonido y ella tiene poderes extrasensoriales. Un día Koji va al bosque a grabar unos sonidos, sin darse cuenta, una niña que huye de un secuestrador se esconde en su maleta. Pasan los días y la policía pide ayuda a Junco para que les de datos de donde está la niña. Con sus poderes logra descubrir que la niña se encuentra en el maletín, en su propia casa. Pero decide ocultarlo e inicia un juego... (FILMAFFINITY)
Screenplay
In a near future where allergies have become an epidemic, music producer Haru half-heartedly dates post office clerk and mail thief Michi. He searches for violent ways to reactivate his life, she dreams of escaping abroad; both volunteer to test a new drug which may provide a cure.
Director
In a near future where allergies have become an epidemic, music producer Haru half-heartedly dates post office clerk and mail thief Michi. He searches for violent ways to reactivate his life, she dreams of escaping abroad; both volunteer to test a new drug which may provide a cure.
Screenplay
Se llama a un detective experimentado para rescatar a un político secuestrado por un lunático. En un breve momento de incertidumbre, pierde la oportunidad de actuar. Dejando su trabajo y su familia sin explicación, se dirige a un bosque de montaña y se encuentra con un árbol peculiar llamado Carisma.
Director
Se llama a un detective experimentado para rescatar a un político secuestrado por un lunático. En un breve momento de incertidumbre, pierde la oportunidad de actuar. Dejando su trabajo y su familia sin explicación, se dirige a un bosque de montaña y se encuentra con un árbol peculiar llamado Carisma.
Writer
Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is not intact anymore: father, mother and sister live at different places. Yutaka decides to re-open the pony farm that his family once ran.
Director
Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is not intact anymore: father, mother and sister live at different places. Yutaka decides to re-open the pony farm that his family once ran.
Director
A made-for-TV anthology horror film composed of four stories, two of which serving as prequels to the Ju-on series.
Screenplay
Nijima, a white-collar worker, finds the man responsible for his young daughter’s murder. He tortures and interrogates the man, who maintains his innocence, before killing and burying him. He returns to his ordinary life feeling listless and hollow, until he meets an old friend who introduces him to his hapless band of hired killers.
Director
Nijima, a white-collar worker, finds the man responsible for his young daughter’s murder. He tortures and interrogates the man, who maintains his innocence, before killing and burying him. He returns to his ordinary life feeling listless and hollow, until he meets an old friend who introduces him to his hapless band of hired killers.
Director
Después de que su hija de 8 años sea raptada y asesinada, el yakuza Miyashita (Teruyaki Kagawa) busca venganza. A él se le une un misterioso personaje (Sho Aikawa) con el fin de ayudarle.
Screenplay
El policía Takabe investiga unos extraños asesinatos. Las víctimas aparecen con una herida de arma blanca en forma de "x" y los culpables son personas totalmente normales sin ningun motivo para haber cometido el asesinato. Takabe empieza a sospechar que algo está influenciando a la gente para matar.
Novel
El policía Takabe investiga unos extraños asesinatos. Las víctimas aparecen con una herida de arma blanca en forma de "x" y los culpables son personas totalmente normales sin ningun motivo para haber cometido el asesinato. Takabe empieza a sospechar que algo está influenciando a la gente para matar.
Director
El policía Takabe investiga unos extraños asesinatos. Las víctimas aparecen con una herida de arma blanca en forma de "x" y los culpables son personas totalmente normales sin ningun motivo para haber cometido el asesinato. Takabe empieza a sospechar que algo está influenciando a la gente para matar.
Director
A made-for-TV anthology horror film composed of three stories : Rei Video & Hoken-shitsu by Hideo Nakata and Haiko Kidan by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
Writer
Second half of the violent tale of revenge from actor Sho Aikawa and director Kiyoshi Kurosawa! It's been five years since he left the force, lost his wife, and waged all out revenge, and now our hero is idling his time with a failing yakuza group. When he discovers the secret of one of his superiors, he takes up the gun of vengeance and realizes that his life has only been to serve that purpose.
Director
Second half of the violent tale of revenge from actor Sho Aikawa and director Kiyoshi Kurosawa! It's been five years since he left the force, lost his wife, and waged all out revenge, and now our hero is idling his time with a failing yakuza group. When he discovers the secret of one of his superiors, he takes up the gun of vengeance and realizes that his life has only been to serve that purpose.
Director
Sho Aikawa plays a police detective whose dark personal history makes it impossible for him to stay within the limits of the legal system. But he is not just a detective; he is also a husband who has to explain to his wife how he got blood on his sleeve. And the criminals he pursues turn out to be as imperfect and oddly human as he is-and just as determined to protect their own families. This is the first of Kurosawa's films to pay homage to 1970s American gunslingers like Dirty Harry and reinvent them for modern Tokyo.
Director
Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a brother and sister who want to drive a local yakuza gang member out of their neighborhood.
Director
A duo get mixed up with a girl who finds a trunk load full of heroin.
Director
Miyako is a frustrated insurance saleswoman stuck in a major dry spell. She tries every trick in the book, including aggressive flirting, which gets her plenty of gropers but no buyers. One day while venturing down a narrow stairwell, she injures her ankle and happens upon Mitsuru who works for some mysterious foreign company. Decked out in high goth style -- complete with long inky black hair and mascaraed eyes -- Mitsuru cuts quite an odd figure, yet his seductive though menacing ways make him difficult for Miyako to resist. Escorting her to his office to treat her ankle, Miyako notices that his all-female staff seem more glassy-eyed and soul-deadened than the average office workers. In fact, they seem almost like zombies. Later, weird things start happening. Mitsuko finds vomit on her doorstep, she seems to be tailed by a shadowy woman in a red dress, and most strikingly, she finds herself utterly powerless against Mitsuru's advances.
Screenplay
Having lost everything to horse racing, Yûji accidentally gets 10 million yen. But this sum belongs to a Yakuza.
Director
Having lost everything to horse racing, Yûji accidentally gets 10 million yen. But this sum belongs to a Yakuza.
Screenplay
Yûji and Kosaku are hired to track down an old man. But when he suddenly dies, his granddaughter surfaces with a map to his buried fortune, which the yakuza and a dirty cop are determined to find.
Director
Yûji and Kosaku are hired to track down an old man. But when he suddenly dies, his granddaughter surfaces with a map to his buried fortune, which the yakuza and a dirty cop are determined to find.
Writer
Hapless gangsters are hired by the yakuza to tail his daughter. Once the identity of the boy she's dating has been unveiled, the boss offers a reward for his capture.
Director
Hapless gangsters are hired by the yakuza to tail his daughter. Once the identity of the boy she's dating has been unveiled, the boss offers a reward for his capture.
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Two petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members, fortunately they are rescued by a kindly Kindergarten teacher.
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Two petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members, fortunately they are rescued by a kindly Kindergarten teacher.
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The Yakuza clan Inoshika decides to help a small family business, Taxi Tanaka, lured by the clan Jinryûkaï and deeply in debt.
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The Yakuza clan Inoshika decides to help a small family business, Taxi Tanaka, lured by the clan Jinryûkaï and deeply in debt.
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One of the contemporary masters of Japanese film, Kiyoshi Kurosawa here fashions a dark tale that is both a sharp satire of corporate life and a B-movie thriller. A former sumo wrestler now working as a security guard goes on a murderous rampage in the company that's employed him.
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One of the contemporary masters of Japanese film, Kiyoshi Kurosawa here fashions a dark tale that is both a sharp satire of corporate life and a B-movie thriller. A former sumo wrestler now working as a security guard goes on a murderous rampage in the company that's employed him.
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The second TV series of Kiyoshi Kurosawa just after the crush of a economic babble in Japan. His comical (and melodic...) analysis of the Japanese society responds to the Godard's films about the French society of the 60s,...
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The second TV series of Kiyoshi Kurosawa just after the crush of a economic babble in Japan. His comical (and melodic...) analysis of the Japanese society responds to the Godard's films about the French society of the 60s,...
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During World War II, the Japanese military established a secret underground laboratory in Tokyo. Three Olympic-level athletes were selected to undergo a process that would turn them into Jinra-go, superhuman armored soldiers. By March 1945, one of the soldiers had been completely transformed into the half man/half machine ultimate soldier called Mikadroid. But American B-29s firebomb the city and, while the two super soldiers manage to escape, Mikadroid and the lab are apparently destroyed. 45 years pass, Tokyo is rebuilt, and old secrets are forgotten. The site is now home to a complex that includes the Discoclub Layla. The disco’s patrons dance late into the night, unaware that a faulty basement generator has reactivated Mikadroid and the cyborg now prowls the basement levels, killing anyone in its path...
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A wordholic man, acting as the chief editor by a certain publishing company, is confined by the writer who wishes to publish.
Librarian
A Tokyo psychiatrist is hoping to better his career by marrying the daughter of a prominent doctor. The match is threatened however when an attractive but very troubled tourist guide comes to him for consultation...
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Three stories with horror and science fiction elements. 1st episode: "The Curse of Tutankhamen" (Tsutankâmen no noroï) by Kazuyuki Izutsu. With Naoto Takenaka. Two clans of Yakuza clash in a bar. 2nd episode: "They came back, tonight too" (Yatsura wa konya mo yattekita) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. With Renji Ishibashi. A polar writer is pursued by two mysterious mountebanks. 3rd episode: "I want to come back to this day" (Ano hi ni kaeritai) by Banmei Takahashi. With Toshiyuki Nagashima. A couple who robbed a bank decides to separate to escape the police.
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Three stories with horror and science fiction elements. 1st episode: "The Curse of Tutankhamen" (Tsutankâmen no noroï) by Kazuyuki Izutsu. With Naoto Takenaka. Two clans of Yakuza clash in a bar. 2nd episode: "They came back, tonight too" (Yatsura wa konya mo yattekita) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. With Renji Ishibashi. A polar writer is pursued by two mysterious mountebanks. 3rd episode: "I want to come back to this day" (Ano hi ni kaeritai) by Banmei Takahashi. With Toshiyuki Nagashima. A couple who robbed a bank decides to separate to escape the police.
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Un grupo de jóvenes reporteros se dirigen hacia una mansión abandonada en el medio del bosque, con la intención de hacer un reportaje acerca de unos antiguos cuadros pintados por el difunto Mamiya Ichiro. La casa está aparentemente abandonada. Sin embargo, una vez que entren, el fantasma de Mamiya les impedirá el escape...
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Un grupo de jóvenes reporteros se dirigen hacia una mansión abandonada en el medio del bosque, con la intención de hacer un reportaje acerca de unos antiguos cuadros pintados por el difunto Mamiya Ichiro. La casa está aparentemente abandonada. Sin embargo, una vez que entren, el fantasma de Mamiya les impedirá el escape...
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A country girl visits a college in Tokyo in search of her high school band heartthrob. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus--a constantly horny coed, a psychology professor in search of the theory of shame, and of course her Mr. Yoshioka who still sings but has become an elusive campus nobody. Other students also come in and out, engaged in a rather bored campus life-- flirting, having sex, joining campus group activities, running around posing as revolutionaries.
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A country girl visits a college in Tokyo in search of her high school band heartthrob. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus--a constantly horny coed, a psychology professor in search of the theory of shame, and of course her Mr. Yoshioka who still sings but has become an elusive campus nobody. Other students also come in and out, engaged in a rather bored campus life-- flirting, having sex, joining campus group activities, running around posing as revolutionaries.
Visitor of Salon "Uonome"
A shady music mogul brings together two wannabe stars—punk rock rebel Kan and new-wave crooner Shingo—and transforms them into the Stardust Brothers, a girl-friendly, silver-jumpsuited, synth-pop sensation. Along with their #1 fan, who herself dreams of a music career, the duo rockets to stardom.
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When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.
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Two sexually energized young women who live in a high-rise apartment building happen one day to spy from their window a mother and son making love in the apartment across from theirs. They decide to stage a rescue attempt to free him and in the process one of the young women ends up falling in love with the son despite having a boyfriend and enjoying sex with her female companion. Of course, the mother they are warring against has her own plans when she feels her privacy invaded.
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First production by Directors’ Company. The film depicts the lives of a young man with dreams of becoming a rock superstar and his two friends.
Production Assistant
First production by Directors' Company. A man stripped bare of all modern values lives in a pure form, like a beast, feeding and satiating his every primal desire whenever they may arise. He takes on a mate, a woman intrigued by his personage or lack thereof, and they live in his den in central Tokyo. As time goes on, we see how this animal clashes with modern man, and the consequences of their coexistance.
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A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.
Manager
At the beginning of the film, we are presented with an ordinary story. It is the story of a student organization's internal struggle. The story begins with the protagonist taking a briefcase and the organization taking it back, along with his woman. The man who brings back the bag faces the woman. The room is somehow symmetrical. The room is somehow left-right symmetrical, with a low angle and fixed screen as in the Ozu style.
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At the beginning of the film, we are presented with an ordinary story. It is the story of a student organization's internal struggle. The story begins with the protagonist taking a briefcase and the organization taking it back, along with his woman. The man who brings back the bag faces the woman. The room is somehow symmetrical. The room is somehow left-right symmetrical, with a low angle and fixed screen as in the Ozu style.
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An omnibus film in which Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Yoshiharu Ueoka and others took part.
Suspect on tv news
A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.
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