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This documentary, produced by Hiroaki Fujii in 2005, features the crew of Yukio Mishima's 1966 film PATRIOTISM recounting their filming experience.
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Eriko – lonely, aimless and self-absorbed – falls for Tamura. Despite knowing that he is waiting for his girlfriend to return from overseas, she requests to enter into a relationship with him for just one year.
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집 근처에서 조깅을 하던 순백의 여고생 쿠니코가 손 발이 묶인 채 눈을 뜬 곳은 어둡고 낯선 방. 그녀를 바라보고 있던 한 남자가 자신을 '이와조노'라고 소개하며 납치한 이유를 설명하지만, 겁에 질린 그녀는 풀어달라며 몸부림친다. 한편, 이와조노가 사는 그곳은 사랑에 굶주린 대학생, 밤거리를 누비는 미모의 흑장미, 만능 샐러리맨, 그리고 그들의 일거수 일투족을 감시하는 여주인이 함께 살고 있는 하숙집. 소녀를 철저히 감금해 놓고 끼니때마다 먹을 것을 챙겨주며 정성껏 보살피는 이와조노, 갑자기 활력이 넘치는 그를 모두들 의심스런 눈으로 보기 시작하는데...
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A film based on two short stories by Shiina Makoto. Tadon is the story of a cab-driver who spends his days listening to his passengers' conversations. Chikuwa is about a writer who faces a creativity bottleneck.
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Hamanaka Koichi returns to his wife Hisako and family in a sadder, run-down section of eastern Tokyo after having run away from home years before. He gives no explanation of his absence and his family asks no questions. It is only through the questions that a young writer named Asakura, who is secretly in love with Hisako, poses of local shop owners, that we learn that Hamanaka's disappearance may be related to the fact that the woman everyone thought he would marry, Tami - who runs the cafe across the street from the Hamanaka electric store - had ended up tying the knot with another man who died soon thereafter.
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There still stands a famous apartment building where such prominent manga artists as Tezuka Osamu, Shotaro Ishinomori and Fujio Akatsuka once lived, worked, and shared experiences.
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In 1940, Kubota Shoten, which has been in business for generations, goes bankrupt due to the debauched lifestyle of its president, Kunimitsu Kubota. Subsequently, Kunimitsu moves back to his hometown and his children are sent to live with other relatives.
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Filmed in a documentary style six patients in six wards of different ages and circumstances await death at a hospital in Japan. The sterile and dismal environment is contrasted against the emotional being of the patients, their visitors and relatives and the outside world, which they will never again survey.
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Based on the novel of the same name by Yoshio Kataoka.
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The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without rest, and endured those conditions and sexual harassment to earn money for their poor families. Across the ocean, it was the great depression in America.
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Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contract are beginning to unravel, and some unscrupulous people took undue advantage of these changes before the social order was re-created. In this story, a rich merchant gives his clerk an I.O.U. instead of wages. When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a rage and pretends he never wrote it and claims the clerk is trying to defraud him. Then he sets his henchmen on the clerk to administer a beating.
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Drama and intrigue about defense contracts and corruption.
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The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world when her grandmother dies. Notwithstanding her healthy distrust of all strangers, which her upbringing instilled in her, it is not long before a cunning racketeer finds her weak point, that temptation which she cannot resist, that weakness, different as it may be, that each of us has, and brings her into his power. What follows is a depiction of her cruel descent into the depths of moral decay, as she becomes a collaborator in a system of exploitation, unbridled lust, vanity, and greed, in which she and other victims are always the losers.
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A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.
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호시노 관방장관의 비서가 2억엔을 빌리러 금융왕 이시하라를 방문하지만, 이시하라는 바로 거절한다. 이시하라는 이 관방장관을 신문기자 후루가키에게 조사하도록 시킨다. 후루가키를 통해 현 정부의 부패를 알게 된 이시하라는 가미야 의원을 통해, 국회 결산 폭로하려고 하지만, 가미야의 배신으로 결국 후루가키는 살해되고, 이시하라는 세금 탈세로 붙잡히게 된다.
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죽은 아버지가 남기고 간 빚을 갚기 위해 공장에서 일하는 16살 소녀. 수시로 돈을 요구하는 엄마의 등쌀에 소녀는 바 호스티스가 되어 보지 않겠느냐는 친구의 제안을 받아들이기로 결심하고 전화번호부에서 친구의 이름을 찾는다. 그때 그녀에게 다가와 말을 거는 젊은 불량배. 소녀는 그와 함께 차를 마시고 영화를 보며 그녀의 인생에서 처음으로 자신에게 친절하게 대해 주는 사람을 만난 기쁨을 누린다. 하지만 그는 여성들을 강간하고 팔아 넘기는 야쿠자의 하수인일 뿐이다.
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Yuki cares for a sick old man Katakura who kept her mother as his mistress. Now she is the object of his ugly desires. When she falls in love with a young man Jun her long oppressed mind leads her to commit a murder with Jun for Katakura’s enormous fortune.
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아키는 자신을 모델로 한 조각이 전시된 화랑을 방문한다. 그녀는 한 맹인이 조각의 가슴과 배, 허벅지 등을 더듬고 있는 모습을 보게 되고, 마치 자신의 몸을 더듬고 있는 듯한 착각에 빠진다. 며칠 후, 안마사를 불러 마사지를 받던 아키는 마취약에 취해 정신을 잃는다. 정신을 차린 아키는 자신이 여자의 신체가 오브제가 되어 무수히 놓여있는 거대한 밀실에 갇혀 있음을 깨닫는다.
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A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man for whom he is searching.
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A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she enslaves him to her whims.
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The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.
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사쿠라는 2차대전 말기의 중국에 있는 야전병원에서 간호사로 근무하며, 군의관을 도와 수많은 절단 수술을 돕는다. 광기 가득한 지옥과 같은 곳에서 손발이 잘려 시체처럼 내팽겨진 부상자들에게 그녀는 연민을 느끼고, 군의관과도 사랑에 빠진다. 절망에 빠진 병사들에게 몸을 허락하지만, 진정한 사랑을 갈망하는 여자의 본능을 그린 이색작으로 프랑스에서도 높은 평가를 받은 작품이다.
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1936년의 2.26 사건을 다룬 미시마 유키오의 소설 <우국>을 미시마 본인이 감독, 주연을 맡아 영화로 옮긴 작품. 천황에 대한 충성심을 증명하기 위해 할복자살을 감행하는 젊은 부부의 이야기를 일본 전통극인 ‘노’의 형식으로 담았다. 1970년 미시마 유키오 사후 영화 프린트가 모두 소실된 것으로 전해졌으나, 2005년 그의 옛집 지하실에서 오리지널 프린트가 발견되어 또 다시 화제가 되었다.
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Keizo Tsujiguchi believes his wife Natsue was having an extramarital affair when their child was kidnapped and killed. He believes of her extramarital affair she was unable to watch over their child properly and blames her for their daughter's death. To exact revenge on his wife, he then adopts the killer's child without telling the truth to his wife or their newly adopted child.
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Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.
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Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is first engaged and all goes well until the young man disappears
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After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.
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One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.
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Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have forgotten. He meets a woman who was there when it happened but when they fall in love she isn't able to move on.
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A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.
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일본의 대표적인 작가 에도가와 란포의 소설을 미시마 유키오가 희극화한 것을 영화로 만들었다. 각본은 '벌거 벗은 섬', '오니바바' 등으로 유명한 감독 신도 가네토가 썼다. 원작은 몇 번이나 영상화된 바 있으나 이 작품은 고혹적이며 농염한 분위기로 스토리가 전개, 갑자기 기괴한 뮤지컬이 시작된다는 이색작으로 완성되었다. 쿄 마치코가 분하는 검은 도마뱀이 남장을 하고 호텔에서 춤추며 탈출을 하기도 하고 검은 도마뱀의 표적이 된 아가씨를 지키는 경호원들이 식사를 하며 즐겁게 경호원 노래를 부르는 등 관객을 이차원 공간으로 끌어들여가는 연출이 곳곳에 눈에 띈다.
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도쿄 특급 열차를 탄 소매치기 전문 형사는 젊고 아름다운 소매치기인 사야를 만나게 되지만 현행범이 아니라는 이유로 그녀를 체포하지는 못한다. 오히려 그는 자살한 아버지와 과로사로 어머니를 떠나 보낸 그녀의 이야기를 들으며 연민을 가지게 되는데…
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Omnibus picture, consisting of three stories.
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만주사변 이후 건국된 만주국은 저마다의 사연을 가진 다양한 나라의 사람들이 모인 곳이었다. 청나라 마지막 황제의 동생이자 만주국의 군인이었던 푸제는 일본인 여성 류코와 혼인을 맺는다. 하지만 전쟁과 정치적 긴장 같은 급변하는 정세와 함께 두 사람의 관계는 한 치 앞을 내다 보기 힘든 상황에 처한다. 실제 역사의 주인공인 아이신 가구라(사가 히로)가 쓴 회고록을 바탕으로 만들어진 작품.
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1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura
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A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
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Large star shaped aliens travel to earth in hopes of warning them about an oncoming catastrophe. To prevent panic about their appearance, one alien takes the form of a popular singer.
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