Kichitaro Negishi

Mishima reset the story in a 1950s urban park. At the beginning of the story, five couples are sitting on the benches and embracing. A 99-year-old lady appears in the park to gather cigarette butts. A poet sees her and admonishes her for disturbing the lovers and for using a park bench that rightfully belongs to those in love. They debate life and love. The old lady confesses that when young she was a beautiful woman and was admired by Captain Fukakusa. Upon describing a dance she attended, she and the poet find themselves at the dance, many years earlier, in Rokumei Hall, a ballroom where many handsome men and beautiful women are dancing. Everyone in the ballroom recognizes the old woman as the beautiful Komachi and comment on her beauty.

술 때문에 엄청난 빚을 지고 늘 바람을 피우지만 어쩐지 미워할 수 없는 매력에 뛰어난 재능을 지닌 방탕한 소설가 오타니(아사노 타다노부)와 그런 못난 남편에게 우롱당하면서도 지극정성으로 감싸 안는 아내 사치(마츠 다카코)의 사랑 이야기. 오타니의 애인에 히로스에 료코, 사치를 좋아하는 순진한 청년에 츠마부키 사토시가 출연을 했다. 2009 몬트리올 국제 영화제 감독상 수상. 채도가 낮은 색감의 1940년대 도쿄 풍경과 카메라 워크가 마치 오즈 야스지로의 초기 영화를 떠올리게 하며, 일본에서 개봉 시 “다자이 문학의 정취를 재현하는데 부족함이 없다”는 평가를 얻었다.

네기시 키치타로 감독의 "사이드카의 개"를 보고 난 느낌은 바로 그것이다. 한 소녀의 성장기를 추억하는 이 영화에는 내러티브의 어떤 굴곡 없이 평탄한 진행을 보여준다. 그럼에도 불구하고 영화는 결코 지루하거나 따분하지 않다. 그냥 잔잔하게 펼쳐지는 한 소녀의 여름방학 기간 중 에피소드를 바라본다는 것. 이 행위 만으로도 관객은 어렴풋한 회상의 이미지들을 떠올리게 될 것이기 때문이다. 어느날 갑자기 집을 떠나버린 엄마. 그녀를 대신해 두 남매를 보살피는 젊은 여인. 순박하게만 보이는 아버지. 그리고 마침내 되돌아온 엄마. 영화는 이러한 일련의 사건들을 고통 없이 그려낸다. 네기시 키치타로 감독은 자신의 영화들에서 언제나 물어왔던 것을 이번 신작을 통해 다시 한번 반복한다. 그것은 바로‘가족’이란 사회적 조직의 근원이다. 이러한 조직 속에서 성장하는 유년은 어떤 의미일까? 그 혹은 그녀가 성인이 되었을 때 가족 인자의 존재와 부재를 바라본다면 어떤 결론이 도출될까? 는 바로 이러한 문제에 대한 네기시 키치타로 식의 접근인 것이다. 감독은 이번 영화에서도 자신의 의문에 대한 답을 쉬이 내리지 않고, 누가 타도 상관없는 바이크의 사이드카 좌석에 관객을 살포시 앉히며 스스로의 결론을 도출하도록 만든다.

Following a tip, Manabu Yazaki loses his last money betting on the older "banba" horse "Unryu" (jockied by Makie, a legendary jockey's daughter) in a draft-horse race held in his childhood home of Obihiro on the island of Hokkaido.

Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer from Tokyo, pays a visit to her town and the tree they shared time under some twenty years back after a TV commercial shoot. His remembrances of her, the tree, and the long unrequited love stir both of their hearts to fumbling action as they re-discover the love between them.

Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father. His life begins to unravel when a journalist following him takes an interest in the wife of a boyhood chum, and the wife of another close friend takes an interest in Ise. A couple of murders later, Ise/Haga goes on the run and also sets out for revenge.

두 고교생 남녀의 영화만들기를 통해 미래에 대한 희망과 두 사람 사이에 싹트는 사랑을 그린 청춘 판타지 영화. 감독은 모모요의 과객(百代の過客)의 하라 마사토로 독립영화의 세계에서 70년대부터 주목을 받았지만, 이번 작품으로 상업영화에 데뷔, 이 작품으로 97년도 일본영화감독협회 신인상을 수상했다. 각본은 나카지마 고로와 하라 마사토가 공동 작업했으며 촬영은 바바 준이치가 담당했다. 주연은 이 영화가 영화 첫 데뷔작인 인기 아이돌 히로스에 료코와 신인인 마르시마 츠토무가 맡았으며 히로스에 료코는 이 작품으로 제21회 일본 아카데미상 신인상을 수상했다.

Based on the novel of the same name by Shizuka Ijûin. Played as a double feature with Crepe (1993).

Based on the comic book by Kenshi Hirokane

An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. They start dating but then strange things then begin to happen to him, including a beating from the local yakuza. - Wikipedia

Tokiko Enomoto finds out that her husband Kazuya, who mostly lives at an apartment near his work while she and their children live at home, has been having an affair with a live-in mistress, Ryōko, at his apartment. Tokiko tells her two sons, Tarō and Jirō, that she has decided to divorce their father. The children are shocked but understand their mother's position. Kazuya realizes the damage he has done and tries to remedy the situation.

1978년 닛카츠 로망 포르노의 주요감독으로 활동했던 네기시 기치타로 감독의 작품으로 로망 포르노를 벗어난 그의 두 번째 극영화다. 1979년 시작돼 폭발적인 인기를 누렸던 TV 시리즈 에서 아프로 헤어에 선글라스를 쓴 채, ‘정의’나 ‘추리’에 의해서가 아니라 ‘돈’ 때문에 사건을 해결하는 탐정이라는 이전과는 전혀 다른 탐정, 구도 슌사쿠를 연기했던 마츠다 유사쿠가 영화에도 출연해 '쓰지야마'라는 새로운 탐정을 연기한다. 영화는 TV 시리즈와 제목만 같을 뿐 내용은 다르지만 TV와 영화를 통해 마츠다 유사쿠가 보여준 탐정의 모습은 미국식 하드보일드 탐정의 전형을 제시하며 이후의 일본영화에 등장하는 새로운 탐정의 모습에 큰 영향을 미쳤다. 80년대 일본영화를 대표하는 배우이자 1989년 40세라는 젊은 나이로 사망한 마츠다 유사쿠는 등으로 유명한 마츠다 류헤이의 아버지이기도 하다.

On her wedding day, Makiko is stabbed by a woman in wedding dress. The wound isn't serious but the attacker blows herself up and can't be identified. The attacker is thought to be an ex-girlfriend of Tsutomu, the groom. He gives two names to the police but these two are still alive. But there is still one woman in Tsutomu's mind...

The story of lovers in "Miss Nippon" cabaret in Kabukicho, Shinjuku, where a strict, almost martial, code is followed among employees to bring the business to the top. Workers must follow the rules and a "no relations between workers" policy that's tightly enforced.

A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his romance with the eccentric Kaede and parents selected fiancee Ayako.

A working class young man, Tetsuo, who distrusts all rich people, falls in love with a girl, Chika, from an affluent family. He has a difficult time, but love survives despite the problems.

A teacher, Sakiko Kurata, receives a phone call regarding one of her former students. Young Sueko is accused of being a prostitute and has requested Sakiko’s help. This minx seduces random strangers for sex, but does not ask for payment. Sakiko has moved to another town and barely remembers Sueko, but there’s something about her that awakens painful memories of her own secretive past. What is that strange paint thinner smell on Sueko? Who is the man in the nylon ski mask that violently assaulted Sakiko many years ago? In her search for answers, Sakiko discovers that her past may have inadvertently destroyed another family’s future.

A free spirited woman signs a contract with her boss to be his mistress but finds she needs more satisfaction than he can give.

In a rural town, ex-members of a motorcycle gang become sporadic victims of a vigilante attack. A group of high school boys are responsible for the various assaults because they're upset that the motorcycle gang had disbanded. Seemingly, these kids idolized the rebel gang and harbored dreams of joining them after graduation. Female student Miku (Megumi Saki) happens to see one of the vengeance assaults, and is threat-ened by the high school thugs. After getting raped, she soon develops a compassion for the wild boys.

Miyashita plays an office clerk who is having an affair with her married boss. Since he refuses to leave his wife, Miyashita and another couple plan to kidnap his daughter to collect a ransom.

Yuichi prides himself on the fact that he is a family man but contrary to his conception of an ideal family life, at age 24, his wife has already run out on him. In utter confusion, he tries to reason out where he had gone amiss that such a thing should happen out of the clear blue sky. About this time, Yuichi helps Ayako, a young girl, embroiled in trouble. She returns Yuichi's kindness by making off with his precious camera. Then she returns and since his wife has washed her hands of him, he forces himself on Ayako who acts as if she had been waiting for him to enter her. Suddenly, Yuichi's wife returns...

A woman on her way to Tokyo is repeatedly raped by various men she encounters on the highway.

The story of a high school boy (Toshiyuki Nagashima) in Tokyo returning to his home town of Nagano upon the death of his father.

Toshihiko, a high school boy, hates Kozo, his father, enough to kill him. His mother had lived in terror of him and, at last, broken in spirit, she had left and her pitiful departing figure is still seared in Toshihiko's mind. Soon, Kozo marries Asako who is young and beautiful. An idea forms in Toshihiko's mind to get even with his father for the shabby way he had treated his mother. He wonders if he can do it through Asako.

Roman Porno from 1978. Director Toshiya Fujita and screenwriter Kaneto Shindo adapted Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' 18th-century epistolary novel 'Les Liaisons dangereuses' to a contemporary setting. An abominable and burning jealousy and an evil relationship between a man and a woman unfold in the nature of a game. Eventually, jealousy's ripples deeply hurt the true love of a chaste married woman.