Assistant Director
Travel into Japan's nuttiest apartment house and meet its volatile inhabitants: Kyoko, the beautiful and mysterious new apartment manager; Yusaku, the exam-addled college student; Mrs. Ichinose, the drunken gossip; Kentaro, her bratty son; Akemi, the boozy bar hostess; and the mooching and peeping Mr. Yotsuya.
Assistant Director
A young girl is striving for stardom. In order to get a lead role in a new production, she agrees to stand-in for a famous star whose rich patron died in her arms one night. The real-life drama gradually comes to mirror the story of the play being performed by her.
Assistant Director
A travelling group of young people running a pirate radio station from a small truck encounter an eccentric elderly couple who are on the run from the law.
Director
The film is an unusual love story in which sexuality and gender conflicts between love and the body are intertwined with a stylish couple on the run, influenced by pop art and the American New Cinema. A love story. Utamaro falls in love at first sight with the enigmatic Guico, shoots and kills his foreign patron, and then a foreign patron and runs away with Guico. Guided by the melodies of Bach What will happen to their love, guided by the melody of Bach? With a theme that anticipated the times, this film announced the birth of the Japanese New Cinema. A masterpiece of independent filmmaking, it declared the birth of the New Cinema in Japan.
