Yukio Kubota

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, in 1940, Lieutenant Kurokawa returns home as a honored and decorated soldier but deprived of his arms and legs lost in battle. All hopes, from the villagers and women to close family members, turn to Shigeko, the Lieutenant's wife. She must honor the Emperor and the country in setting an example for all by fulfilling her duty and taking care of the 'god soldier'. Kurokawa prior to leaving to fight in the war regularly beat and berated his wife for her barrenness and inability to bring him a son. When he returns home as an amputee with no hearing and no speech, his wife dutifully attends to him, even though he shows little appreciation for her dedicated care. His main concerns are getting fed and getting sex. Even in his own degraded condition, he manages to berate his wife. Eventually, though, his own memories infiltrate and he is haunted by his horrible, sadistic deeds, performed while in the duty of the Japanese military.

Nursing home "Yuyoso". Many lonely old people live there, including botanist Taro Makiso, a physicist, an actor, a bar mom, and a chef. Maki has spent most of his life studying botany, and has lived without regard for entertainment, drinking, women, or everything else in the world. Then came my 80th birthday. He and a young staff member go digging for wild yam and find a mysterious golden flower. It was the flower of immortality, the "Golden Flower", which was said to bloom beside the Himalayan Virgin, which he had been looking for for many years. From that day onwards, fragments of memories from his youth, which he had intentionally sealed off in order to immerse himself in botany, surged into Maki in a whirlpool.

Documentary about the great Japanese documentary maker Tsuchimoto Noriaki made a couple of years before his death.

In Kagoshima, in the final days of World War II, an offer of marriage comes to Etsuko Kamiya, who lives with her brother and his wife. The offer comes from Nagayo, but Etsuko is attracted to his friend, Akashi.

히로시마의 도서관에 근무하는 미츠에는 아버지 다케조를 원폭으로 잃고, 혼자 살아남았다는 죄책감 속에서 살아간다. 그러던 어느 날 우연히 도서관에서 기노시타를 만나고, 두 사람은 서로 좋아하게 되지만 미츠에는 자신이 행복해져서는 안된다는 생각 때문에 기노시타의 마음을 받아들이지 않는다. 이를 보다 못한 아버지의 유령이 나타나 미츠에의 마음을 돌리려 노력하는데...

Kenzo was behind bars for killing a gangster. Upon his release, he goes to live with his son, whose marriage is on the rocks. His 14-year-old granddaughter Tamako is ostracized when she discovers that her grandfather is a murderer. Kenzo soon helps defend Tamako from bullies at school. When Tamako stands up for herself, she comes to believe that she has inherited some of her grandfather’s great strength. Eventually, an associate of the man Kenzo killed comes looking for revenge, along with the dead man’s son.

Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki's sixth decade behind the camera, "A Boy's Summer in 1945" (literally "A Beautiful Summer in Kirishima") is a lyric, novelistic drama set in the countryside in the last days before Japan's surrender ending WWII. Striking a welcome retro note in its languid pacing and delicate handling of seriocomic ensemble threads, handsome production is a natural for fests. It might also prove a cornerstone for retrospectives or ancillary releases of works by a helmer ("Preparation of the Festival," "Ronin-gai") who's long been appreciated at home but has won just limited attention abroad.

예술가가 된 정신지체인가, 정신지체가 된 예술가인가? 정신지체가 있는 7명의 예술가 이야기. 평범하지 않은 비사회적 가치들로부터 얼마나 매력적인 예술 작품이 탄생할 수 있는지를 보여준다. 사토 마코토의 유연한 스타일은 어렵고 진중한 주제를 부드럽고 흥미롭게 풀어낸다. 예술 작업과 워크숍을 장려하는 정신병동 3곳을 집중 촬영하였으며 이를 통해 예술이란 무엇인가라는 근본적인 문제를 탐구한다. 이 영화는 감독과 관객 모두에게 흥미로운 담론이다.

Taku Shinjo spins this rural drama about ancient taboos and encroaching modernity. Takamine (Gitan Otsuru) is a big-city workaholic sent to a small remote island to seal a business deal. His predecessor almost managed to convince the island's 17 inhabitants to sell their stake and make way for a resort hotel -- that is, before he died under dubious circumstances. Takamine finds the islanders polite and kind but unwilling to discuss business; instead, they tell him to become an islander. So the city-slicker stuffed shirt loses his tie and starts to help the women plant and the men fish. He soon makes his acquaintance with Takako (Mitsuko Baisho), the widowed daughter of the island's chief. She lives alone with her crazed son who is kept Jane Eyre-style chained to a stake. One moon-lit night, their mutual attraction boils over, resulting in a naked, passionate roll on the beach.

Tatsuya is on a honeymoon in Australia. A couple of unfortunate encounters land him in jail, where he’s imprisoned without a chance of ever getting out again. His wife tries her best to launch an appeal, but it’s Tatsuya’s inmates who are his best chance of escaping his current predicament.

1929년 아가노 강에 댐이 건설된 이후, 쇼와 전력회사가 강에 버린 유기수은으로 인해 미나마타병에 걸린 주민들을 밀착 취재한 작품. 강의 오염으로 어업도 불가능해지고, 병든 노인들만 남게 된 아가노의 고통을 공식적으로 인정받기 위한 노력이 계속된다.

Shiragaki is renowned for its ceramics. This documentary follows people who must overcome physical disabilities to work in the town.

After the death of her mother a young woman wants to meet her real father

Young Kinu Yamabe is drawn to low-born Onimaru, who is vital and charismatic, but viewed by his father as a demon. After her first period, Kinu suffers the fate of any women born near the Sacred Mountain: she must leave the Mountain and serve as a priestess.

The movie compiles footage taken by Ogawa Production for a period of more than ten years after the collective moved to Magino village. Unique to this film are fictional reenactments of the history of the village in the sections titled "The Tale of Horikiri Goddess" and "The Origins of Itsutsudomoe Shrine". Ogawa combines all the techniques that were developed in his previous films to simultaneously express multiple layers of time—the temporality of rice growing and of human life, personal life histories, the history of the village, the time of the Gods, and new time created through theatrical reenactment—bring them into a unified whole. The faces of the Magino villagers appear in numerous roles transcending time and space—sometimes as individuals, sometimes as people who carry the history of the village in their memories, sometimes as storytellers reciting myths, and even as members of the crowd in the fictional sequences.

A sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine.

Based on the novel of the same name by Yoshio Kataoka.

Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband's emotional conflicts with the wisdom of an adult. Kazumi's younger and more inexperienced husband Hideo is continually suspicious of her fidelity.

홋카이도의 황야를 배경으로 30대 부부와 20대 부부의 이야기가 그려지며, 결혼 교환을 주제로 강렬한 에로스와 섬세한 이미지로 두 남녀의 미묘한 감정이 그려진다.

Yahagi Michiko is accosted and raped walking home one evening. From there she maneuvers the logistics of the police, hospital, and criminal justice system while balancing her home life including romantic relationships.

‘여자의 몸은 머리부터 발끝까지 성의 도구가 된다.' 여대생 토시는 시인인 오다 선생을 만나, 누가 먼저랄 것도 없이 서로에 대한 연정을 키워간다. 많은 나이 차에도 두 사람의 사랑은 깊어만 가지만, 토시는 유부남인 오다의 애정에 갈증을 느낀다. 한동안 연락이 없는 오다의 빈자리에 토시는 점점 지쳐 가는데…

A young woman breaks off her long-term relationship with her boyfriend to move to Tokyo in search of new experiences.

Mariko is living the life of a typical Japanese college student in the 70's, spending far more of her time balancing boyfriends and part-time jobs than on her schoolwork. She finds herself torn between a former boyfriend who's the tough, insensitive-but-sexy, type, and a new acquaintance who's more sensitive to her feelings, but who still acts childishly selfish at times. Will she choose one of them, or decide to go her own way?

Tadao decides to comes back from Tokyo to live in his home town, in the countryside. He stays at his parents place and finds a job, repairing transistor and television. He catches up with his friend Tetsuji, the only that haven’t left yet. But one night, Tetsuji decides to leave for Tokyo with a bar hostess.

Third and Shinbunbu embark on a plan to make money by Third becoming a pimp and Shinbunbu a prostitute.

A young Japanese man finds himself in the company of a strange, effeminate gay man and a girl with a seedy sexual history and who even now is pregnant again. They share a predisposition for drug use and spend time together in an old house. He refuses the advances of the gay man, who then commits suicide. When a gang administers a beating to him, his father re-enters the scene and takes him home, along with the girl. However, the girl has decided to have her baby, and she goes to live with its father.

In the mid-1970s, protests were waning across Japan after the Red Army scandal of Asama Cottage. In Sanrizuka, people were weary of the violence and the airport was well under construction. As for Ogawa Productions, they invited criticism by pulling out and moving to a quiet village in northern Japan. But when protesters back in Sanrizuka erected a tall tower at the end of one runway, they sent a crew to document what happened. This became the final film of the Sanrizuka Series.

Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.

After the waning of the protests in Sanrizuka, Ogawa Pro started questioning the future of the collective and looking for other subjects to film. Following the method developed in the previous films, the filmmakers moved to the slum of Kotobuchi in the port city of Yokohama, where more than 6000 people were struggling to get by without any means of survival, exposed to industrial accidents and diseases. The result is one of the most moving films produced by the collective, a series of beautifully filmed portraits, voicing the silenced stories and songs of a group of people living in this community. Credit: ICA London

1972년, 미유키는 전 남편인 카즈오에게 자신들의 아들을 데리고 오키나와에 가겠다고말한다. 카즈오는 그녀를 영화에 담기로 마음 먹는다. 그녀는 여성들의 공동체에 합류하여 여러가지 가능성에 대해 토론하고 어머니가 된다는 것에 즐거움은 느끼지만 전통적인 가족에 대해서는 관심이 없다. (2018년 제15회 서울환경영화제)

한 젊은 남자가 유력 재계 인사를 살해한 뒤 스스로 목숨을 끊는 사건이 벌어진다. 사건 이후 남자의 여동생은 오빠의 유언을 따라 기타 잇키 교수의 집을 찾아간다. 그는 일본 사회의 근본적인 변화를 주장하는 기타 교수의 주장에 큰 영향을 받았던 것이다. 1936년 실제로 일어났던 2.26 쿠데타를 기타 잇키의 시점으로 재구성한 작품으로 요시다 기주의 정치적 관점을 엿볼 수 있다.

The first in a series of independent documentaries that Tsuchimoto made of the mercury poisoning incident in Minamata, Japan.

A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle engineer.

In 1968 the plan by the government to construct a new international airport in the fields of Sanrizuka near Tokyo unleashed one of the most important and enduring social upheavals in the history of postwar Japan. The plan sought to evict thousands of farmers from their lands without any sort of respect for the locals’ rights. Their resistance to eviction was met with extreme violence by the police. Activists from all over the country, including thousands of students, joined with the farmers in their mounting struggle. As the combats in Sanrizuka became more intense and the numbers of police increased, the collective became more involved in the fighting. Sanrizuka: The Three Day War was what Ogawa called a “bullet film”, an immediate and powerful piece of agitprop shot in three days and intended to be seen as quickly and widely as possible. Credit: ICA London

This film documents student preparations for the final phases of the 1969 protests against the renewal of the security treaty.

Aido is a beautiful woman cursed with an insatiable appetite for sex. After an affair with a young student, she engages in several other affairs in which she can no longer tell fantasy from reality.

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers on two 1960s students researching Osugi's theories.

Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

매력적인 여성 다쓰코는 남편인 신고와 어린 아들과 함께 좋은 저택에서 행복해 보이는 삶을 누린다. 그러나 사실 다쓰코는 자신이 낳은 아들의 진짜 아버지가 누구인지 확신을 못 내리고 있으며, 다쓰코 부부의 친구인 사카구치는 자신의 불임을 의심하고 있다. 세 사람은 서로 자신이 가진 고민을 털어놓으며 과거의 일들을 하나씩 떠올린다.