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The film is about poor children and 'The Kids' Diner', a place where they can go to get free or cheap food.
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Katagiri, a highly ambitious young detective, teams up with older detective Takiguchi, who is about to retire, to investigate a murder that took place by Sumida River. Katagiri is annoyed by Takiguchi's pushiness, but is surprised to hear that the victim was a suspect in the 300 million yen robbery.
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A young tofu maker, Eikichi comes from Kyoto to open a tofu shop in a friendly neighborhood. He meets there a feisty local girl Ofumi who befriends him as he sets up his shop, Kyo-ya and in spite of the difficulties stemming from cultural differences between the two ancient capitals including the favored taste of tofu itself, they eventually marry and become the owner of a tofu shop on a more respectable street. Behind the rock-solid business of Kyo-ya, their son, Eitaro bears the brunt of other tofu shops' animosity toward Kyo-ya's refusal to comply with Edo's way of running business and starts to frequent a gambling hall run by the mysterious "Boss", which throws the family into a critical situation that threaten to pull them apart...
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Shinku is a compelling drama that focuses on the strange relationship that develops between two people who find their lives irrevocably changed as a result of a horrible multiple homicide. The first person traumatized is the lone survivor of the terrible family bloodbath, a girl who grows up to be a pretty college student. The second person affected by this heinous crime is the daughter of the murderer, a young girl who ends up becoming a tattooed bartender. A full decade after the crime, the killer is finally going to be executed, and the surviving member of the massacre decides to reach out and befriend the murderer's daughter. A tentative, odd sort of friendship blossoms between these two people, both of whom seem to have little in common personally, and every reason in the world for not wanting to meet. Yet they do, but not without reservations. And really, is this friendship quite what it seems? Or is it all part of some twisted plan for vengeance?
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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...
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A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II and in the midst of the Japanese imperial ambitions in Eastern Asia. The spy becomes acquainted with a sympathetic communist who like he is attached to the ideals of freedom and rule of the masses. Sorge is able to feed the Soviet Union useful information regarding the Axis allies and their movements in Asia and beyond.
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Based on the ancient Japanese Tale of Genji. This film is set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins from the death of her husband, a Japanese noble, then moves on to her recruitment to train the Prince's young 'wives in waiting'. It is dotted throughout and actually composed mainly of one of the fictional stories she wrote, the tale of Genji. Genji is a rich playboy who falls in love and has a son to his stepmother. He falls in love often and has many wives whom are all completely subservient to him. Genji is played by a woman actress from the all-female Takarazuka theatre. The two interrelating stories are also interrupted occasionally by fantasimical musical clips from a past Japanese teen-idol, Seiko Matsuda.
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Screen icon Sayuri Yoshinaga stars in this historical melodrama about geishas in the southern city of Nagasaki set during the 1920s. Though she was sold to a geisha house at a young age, Aihara (Yoshinaga) has since become a master samisen player and woman of great elegance. Though not especially rich, she doles out money to street kids, in particular, a pretty young flower vendor named Oyuki, who becomes Aihara's godchild of sorts. Yet when a geisha (Reiko Takashima) from a rival red-light district insults Aihara and her brethren, she fights back. Soon an all-out geisha war looms. Dapper businessman and amateur scholar Tojiro Koga (Tetsuya Watari) appears on the scene and defuses tempers -- suggesting that difference be settled through a competition of artistic abilities. Smitten with her talent and mature beauty, Koga invites Aihara to record Nagasaki folk songs before they disappear forever
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전국시대 말, 강력한 카리스마로 혼란한 정국을 제압한 오다 노부나가는 숨어서 모든 정보를 장악하고 있는 닌자의 존재에 겁을 먹고 몰살을 명령한다. 몰살의 표적은 닌자의 최대 명문가인 '이가'. 무참한 살육전 속에서 가문의 후계자 쥬조는 살아남아 홀로 산 속에 은거하고 닌자들은 뿔뿔히 흩어진다. 10년 후 어느 날 옛스승 자에몽이 나타나 쥬조에게 최고 권력자 히데요시의 암살임무를 맡긴다. 가문을 몰살한 수뇌부에 복수하기 위해 임무를 받아들인 쥬조는 히데요시의 거처인 교토로 향한다. 그는 자신에게 접근한 창녀 고하기와 하룻밤을 보낸 후 그녀가 히데요시의 암살을 조종하고 있는 도쿠가와 이에야스의 심복이 잠입시킨 감시인이라는 사실을 알게 되는데...
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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.
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This non-narrative film depicts the routines of a girls' basketball team in a junior high school near Tokyo. Shot with a stationary camera, it consists of six ten-minute segments, some of which show the girls' routine exercises, others of which are choreographed.
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After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his brother after World War II.
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18세기의 일본 판화가 사라쿠에 대한 전기영화.
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In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launches a plan to cut back on his labor force. Fifty employees are segregated into a special assignment division and given an ultimatum: meet a sales goal of 1.5 billion yen within three months or be fired. Spiteful of their unjust treatment, two men, Shinoda and Takigawa, take up the battle against the ruthless Yokoyama.
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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.
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Koji Wakamatsu adapted the Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of a traveling acting troupe.
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A successful office lady, who has made herself sexually available to a doctor, has her routine disrupted when her former boyfriend's son appears in her life. She is not connected to the boy, but his father has been in an accident.
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An anthology exploring the meaning of the Japanese greeting goaisatsu.
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1944년. 도쿄 공습을 피해 토야마富山 친척집에 혼자 피난 내려온 신지는, 시골 학교에서 낯선 생활에 적응해야 한다. 신지가 들어간 5학년 남자반은 다케시라는 급장이 확실하게 권력을 휘두르고 있다. 다른 아이들보다 머리 하나는 더 크고 힘쎈 다케시의 횡포에 아이들은 꼼짝 못하고, 신지는 그런 다케시에게 저항을 시도해 보지만 곧 눈물을 흘리며 다케시가 원하는 것을 뭐든지 해주는 처지에 빠진다.
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Actress Moeko comes to Singapore to look for Kariya, the man she loves. She checks in at Raffles Hotel and finds out that he lives in a big house with his wife and children. In the darkness, Moeko suddenly stands in front of Kariya with a camera in her hands. The shutter's sound resounds through the room. When it fades away, Moeko has vanished...
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유메노 큐사쿠의 동명소설을 영화로 만든 작품. 쇼와 초기, 홀로 자신을 키우던 어머니를 살해했다는 의혹을 샀다가 이모 밑에서 자라나 사촌 여동생과 결혼하기로 되어 있던 젊은 청년 쿠레 이치로(吳一郞)[5]는 갑작스러운 정신발작을 일으켜 사촌 여동생을 목 졸라 살해하고 체포된다. 그리고 주인공인 '나'는 과거의 기억을 모두 잃은 채 정신병원에서 깨어나는데...
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On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of people in Nagasaki the day before that fateful event. It presents the human drama of people's lives, and their feelings of joy and sadness. These include a newlywed couple, an expectant mother, and lovers who must say farewell because the boy is called to serve in the army. Each of these people, like others in the city, hoped to live with their dreams for ‘tomorrow’. But tomorrow never comes for them, as their lives are brought to an abrupt and unexpected end. Knowing how the story ends, in this case, doesn't detract from it at all; rather, it enhances the emotional impact, which is further heightened by the poignant musical score from Teizo Matsumura. 'Ashita' is the first film in Kazuo Kuroki's 'War Requiem Trilogy,' which also includes 'Utsukushii Natsu Kirishima' (2002) and 'Chichi to Kuraseba' (2004).
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Based on a true story. Shiro, a dog who lives in an inn on Akajima in Okinawa, swims to the opposite shore on Zamami to see his love, a dog named Marilyn. Shiro is portrayed by the real-life Shiro.
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Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a dangerous match with the husband of her frigid cousin.
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A made man during the height of Hiroshima's yakuza turf war must maneuver through the violence and betrayal inside the criminal underworld.
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A 19-year-old girl Hiroko Terasawa working in a matching agency promises her client Masakazu Sekine that she'll pose as his fiancée for a remarkable cash reward. Hiroko moves to Sekine's mansion and prepares to attend the family's meeting. However, this only turns out to be a prelude of a bloody fight over the family's legacy.
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A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among them are two cousins who love each other and who get into a quarrel with other villagers.
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In Okinawa, a Japanese-Filipino gangster named Joe kills an Okinawan mobster. Joe temporarily escapes the pursuing mob by fleeing to the Philippines, hoping to find there safety and perhaps to link up with his father. He meets Yoko, a saloon girl, who looks after him, but soon Joe's enemies show up, determined to make Joe pay.
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When the patriarch of Japan's most powerful yakuza family is shot, his wife is left to pick up the pieces and carry on the legacy.
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Pauline Reage의 소설 「O양 이야기」의 속편을 원작으로 한 이 영화는 1920년대 중국을 배경으로 “O”라는 여인과 스티븐 경과의 도착적인 사랑을 그렸다. 상하이에서 카지노를 소유하고 있는 스티븐 경은 반체제 운동가들을 위해 자금을 지원하기도 한다. 하지만 가학적인 사랑을 즐기는 그는, 자기와 사랑에 빠진 그의 애인의 자신에 대한 사랑을 증명하기 위한 일종의 게임으로 “O”를 사창가로 보낸다.
영화제 소개글. 영화는 한 명의 소녀가 “O”라는 창부가 되는 곳에서 시작한다. 무대는 1928년 홍콩, 한 소녀가 스테판 유에게 이끌려 창관인 “춘모루”로 간다. 그녀는 두 사람의 사랑을 확인하기 위해 창부가 되는 것이다. 여주인은 소녀를 발가벗기고 화장을 시킨 후 말한다. “너의 몸은 이미 손님의 것, 마음대로 씻거나, 더럽혀서는 안 된다”. 그리고 소녀는 점점 “O”가 되어 가고 영화는 처음부터 하드 코어가 아니라 점점 하드 코어로 되어 간다. 이 영화는 폴린 레아주 “O의 이야기”를 원작으로 하고 있다. 테라야마 감독의 작품 중 이 파리에서 개봉 된 후 호평을 받고, 알랑 레네 감독의 , 오시마 나기사 감독의 을 제작했던 프로듀서 아나톨 도망이 그에게 이 영화를 제의했다. 프로듀서로부터의 제안은 하드코어 영화로서 크게 히트시키고 싶다는 것이었다. 이에 테라야마는 설정을 1920년대 중국으로 하여 원작에서 주요 등장 인물의 이름만 남기고, 스테판 유 역은 친구인 클라우스 킨스키를 기용하여 찍게 된다.(윤용순)
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Intellectual collegue professor Sasa becomes obsessed with beautiful Sugiko, a virgin. Eventually, luring her to a love hotel.
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중학교 교사인 기도는 혼자 힘으로 원자폭탄을 만들어낸다. 아무도 자신이 원폭을 가지고 있다는 것을 믿지 않을 것이라 생각한 그는 경찰에 전화를 걸어 자신이 원폭을 가지고 있음을 입증해보인다. 자신감을 얻은 그는 국가를 상대로 전쟁을 할 것을 결의한다.현대 젊은이들의 유희적 정신을 오락영화의 형식을 빌어 빼어나게 묘사한 작품으로 70년대 ‘일본영화의 구세주’로 떠올랐던 하세가와 가즈히코의 두 번째 작품이다.
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Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awaits? In the second, an adolescent searches for the words of a nursery rime he remembers bits of. His journey takes him into dreams, sexual awakening, and Oedipal fantasy. Third, a man of wealth in late-nineteenth century Paris hires a prostitute for the night. She's also cabaret performer and takes him to her room. He fears he's about to be robbed. What's her secret?
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아키라(明)는 죽은 어머니가 흥얼거리던 노래의 가사를 찾아 여행하고 있다. 소년은 교장이나 승려를 찾아가 가르침을 청하기도 한다. 소년이 여행 중에 생각하는 것은 죽은 어머니에 대한 일뿐이었다. 소년의 집 뒤편에 있는 토담 창고에는 지요조(千代女)라는 미친 여자가 살고 있는데, 소년이 그녀 가까이 가면 어머니가 호되게 꾸짖곤 했다. 항간의 소문에 의하면, 그녀는 아버지가 좋아했던 식모라고 한다. 어머니는 그런 사실을 알고 화가 나, 그녀를 10년 동안이나 창고에 가두고 있다는 것이다. 어느 날 아키라는 공놀이를 하는 아름다운 소녀를 만나, 그녀를 뒤쫓아간다. 그러다가 한 저택에 들어서게 되는데, 그곳에서 요괴들이 공놀이를 하고 있다. 그 크고 작은 공들 중에는 어머니의 머리도 끼어 있다. 그리고 어느새 무대는 아키라의 장례식으로 변한다. 그것은 꿈이었다. 아키라는 다시 여행을 떠나는데……
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In the midst of a match, a successful boxer - Hayato, has had enough of the sport. He lets himself get knocked, quits boxing, leaving his wife and start living alone with his mangy dog. One day a young mediocre boxer knocks at the door and wants to be Hayatos apprentice.
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As a family goes on with their day, the shadows on their walls lead a completely different life.
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Visions of characters by the seaside from one's memory are erased by the filmmaker's hand.
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Using bluescreen video techniques, Terayama playfully—and with a silent film theatricality—posits a series of postmodern vignettes featuring realities-within-realities as his protagonist attempts some kind of relationship with a nude woman on the screen-within-the-screen. In his struggles to “free” her, he exposes the absurd flimsiness, deceptiveness and mutability of both the cinema experience and our human dimension.
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A “reading film” of delirious image and text, Les chants de Maldoror takes its title and inspiration from Comte de Lautréamont’s 1869 proto-Surrealist poetic novel which, for instance, describes beauty as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table. In the novel’s six cantos, a young misanthrope indulges in depraved and destructive acts. Unexpected encounters abound, with turtles and birds joining Terayama’s regular cast of snails and dogs to wander over books and bare torsos. Feverish video processing posterizes, inverts and overlays images that are further colored by sound—pushing the limits of his literary adaptation. Terayama wrote that the only tombstone he wanted was his words, but, as Les chants de Maldoror demonstrates, words need not be confined to carved monuments or bound hardcopies.
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준은 22세로 부모로부터 물려받은 바를 경영한지 3개월이 되었다. 가게를 도와 주고 있는 것은 어렸을 적부터 친구인 케이코이다. 하지만 어머니는 그에게 "케이코와 함께 하는 것은 너에게 좋지 않은 일"이라고 말한다. 아버지는 준에게 케이코가 강간 당해 귀가 먹었다고 이야기하자 준은 아버지를 죽인다. 돌아온 어머니는 자수하겠다는 준을 말리는데...
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Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.
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A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.
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The smallpox virus has created its own unique atmosphere in Terayama’s film where the skin of a bandaged adolescent and the surface of the filmic image are subjected to a bizarre ‘disturbance’ as snails cross the screen and nails are hammered into the skull of the ailing patient. Illness in this film is as much a psychic entity as a physical one and manifests itself in an array of theatrical tableaux from grotesque women rigorously brushing their teeth to a snooker game where the players in white face makeup behave like automata. A Tale of Smallpox uses a medical theme to chart the traumatic dream life of Terayama’s times, evincing deep-rooted concerns in the Japanese national psyche that hark back to the upheaval of Meiji modernisation and the devastation of World War Two.
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낯선 카니발풍의 마을을 배경으로 한 어린 소년들의 성년 이야기는 감독이 20년 후에 가지고 있는 추억의 재창조가 된다.
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수라유키히메 2
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A dreamlike portrayal of a hangover after a decadent party.
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이복동생과 사랑에 빠진 무당 여왕 히미코의 삶을 이야기하는 상상 속 프리스타일은 그녀의 힘을 약화시켜 그녀의 위치를 위험에 빠뜨린다.
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Three showgirls playfully mock the audience for attending a projection of an art film.
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A young outlaw can’t escape his rebellious past despite connections to a well to do family.
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가난한 로닌 겐고베이는 유명한 게이샤 고만에게 반한다. 주군의 복수를 이루고 명예를 찾아야 하는 겐고베이는 고만이 빚 때문에 팔려갈 상황에 처했음을 알고는 돈을 주지만, 곧 고만과 그 남편의 음모를 깨닫는다. <장미의 행렬>로 알려진 다큐멘터리 출신 작가 마츠모토 토시오의 또 다른 걸작이다.
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에디는 '준'이라 불리는 게이바에서 가장 잘 나가는 호스트이다. 그는 마약을 거래하는 바의 주인인 곤다와 내연의 관계에 있었다. 곤다는 바의 매니저인 레다와 동거하는데 레다는 곤다가 에디와 관계를 맺는 것을 알고 격렬한 질투심에 사로잡힌다. 에디는 레다가 질투하는 것을 알고는 엄청나게 놀란다. 그것은 에디에게 무시무시한 그의 과거 기억을 떠올리게 했기 때문인데...
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Japanese fishery instructor Akira is attracted to beautiful Cuban young girl Martia. Though initially rejected, Akira still returns with Martia to her homeland. On the way he sees a post-revolution Cuba, cultivating fields, relics from the revolution, armies in training, and Castro in a political rally.
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Documentary about the relationships between mothers and their children.
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A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.
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Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters a strange and beautiful young woman
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Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki depicts in exquisite images a series of encounters and life's turning points.
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Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the love to his mother.
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Japanese documentary from 1964 directed by Noriaki Tsuchimoto. The film focuses on the taxi drivers of Tokyo in the year before the Tokyo Olympics and the difficulties they face: construction obstructing traffic, poor working conditions, numerous accidents, and bad pay. It becomes a critique of a changing and modernizing urban Japan.