A withering craftsman caters to the requests of iron ore. He breathes life into them as he listens to their wishes. His most prominent creation, a traveling box, wanders the landscape, following railroad tracks, collecting the memories of people. In this harsh world, life is dwindling and the craftsman designs machines to assist life, even that of a tree. The craftsman is more than a creator as he helps maintain the machines. As his life dwindles, so do the lives of these machines.
It's Christmas Eve in Tokyo as Ichiro is moving into his new apartment one month ahead of schedule. As he is getting settled in, two strangers enter the apartment and are surprised to find him there. They begin complaining that he is upsetting their plans for a Christmas party to be thrown in the apartment that night before attempting to kick him out.
TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV Asahi in 1978 and released theatrically by Office Henmi in 1988.
Old man
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Enigmatic teenager Akira Inugami is, by night, a powerful werewolf, who falls for a beautiful young teacher, and copes with a ruthless teen gang leader, whose yakuza father murdered Akira's parents years before.
A doctor, gynecologist, discover the corpse of his wife. His nurse advises to him to declare her death a simple heart attack, to clear himself without the slightest doubt. He refuses and calls the police force there. The interrogation of the doctor, then other witnesses, slowly reveals the truth of her demise…
사소한 잘못으로 상부로부터 할복 명령을 하달받은 사무라이가 그것에 저항하는 이야기.
인습과 전통에 대해 순응하는 일본 사회에 저항하는 메세지를 담은 작품.
Minagawa Tsûyaku
전쟁에 패전한 일본의 병사들은 곳곳으로 퍼지고. 카지는 한 무리의 병사들을 이끌고 고향으로 돌아가는 길에 나선다. 집으로 향하는 도중 난민들 무리를 만나며 그들까지 자신의 무리에 받아들여서 그들을 이끌고 목적지까지 향한다. 그들은 여행 중 여기저기에 있는 중국군과 소련군들의 공격을 받지만 카지는 자신을 집에서 기다리고 있는 사랑스러운 부인 미치코를 생각하면 힘든 걸음을 계속해서 앞으로 나아간다. 하지만 결국 카지의 무리는 소련군에 잡혀 포로가 되고 카지의 리더십을 통하여 그곳에서의 생활을 견뎌내지만 한 때 일본군이었지만 소련 포로수용소 안에서 포로관리인이 된 일본군들의 부조리를 참지 못하고, 자신의 동료를 죽인 포로관리인을 살인한 카지는 소련 포로수용소를 탈출하여 자신의 고향으로 향한다.
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notice the terrible sacrifices made by his wife when she accepts a job at a local inn.
A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the situation for the girls becomes increasingly desperate as food and shelter run out and the number of injured climbs, leading to the film's tragic finale.
This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The film is located to Burma. It shows the everyday problems of soldiers in contrast of their ideas and the cynicism of their commanders. Soldiers are also victims of military bullying by their commanders.
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.
This is the only surviving "Mito Komon Manyu-ki" film. This release also known as Adrift Tour Memoir is an 80-minute compilation of the first and second parts (147 minutes), which were re-edited and screened at a time when presentable films were dried up immediately after the defeat of the war.
