Jakuchô Setouchi

Restored footage of a famous debate between Yukio Mishima and students at Tokyo University in 1969, just one year before the author's death.

An examination of the Constitution of Japan and the possibility of its revision

結婚して子どももいる年上の作家・慎吾と長きにわたって一緒に生活している知子は、慎吾が妻と知子の間を行き来する生活に不満もなく、妻と離婚してほしいと思ったこともなかった。そんなある日、かつて彼女が家庭を捨てて駆け落ちした相手の涼太と再会。それ以来知子の心は揺らぎはじめ、慎吾との関係を継続させつつも涼太と以前のような関係に戻ってしまう。

原一男監督が、平成4年5月にガンで亡くなった小説家・井上光晴の晩年の5年間を追ったドキュメンタリー。映画は、彼が文学を教える生徒や、埴谷雄高、瀬戸内寂聴らの証言を通して、井上光晴の文学活動を捉えるとともに、撮影開始直後に発覚したガンと闘う姿を生々しく撮り続ける。

This film, made as a "twin" of A ilha dos amores, was planned as a poetic documentary on the enigmatic life of Wenceslau de Moraes (1855-1929), the great Portuguese writer who lived in the Far East. Verbal testimony, photographs, manuscripts, images of Lisbon, Macao, Kobe and Tokushima in Moraes' time are set side by side with A ilha dos amores and with de Moraes' writings. The director, Paulo Rocha, visited places where Moraes was still remembered, interviewed the writers descendants, consulted archives, rummaged through memories, appointment books, postcards, diaries and calendars from the private life of the 19th century. And above all he set out on a new journey, from Lisbon to Macao to Kobe until he reached Tokushima, where Moraes lived through the final ruin of his life and where Rocha tracks down, between the city and the cemetery, the living presence of places and the memories of individuals.