Shozo Ichiyama

The Horse Thieves tells the story of gangsters who murder the father of a young family and steal the herd of horses that belonged to the village.

An old Chinese woman visits Japan to find her missing daughter whom she adopted in post-WWII China. Her granddaughter and a retired Japanese policeman join her search.

A film director wanders the world alone after breaking up with her boyfriend, finally gaining inner peace.

Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowing a boat for the villagers all day long, he barely communicates with anyone except Genzo, a young neighbour. Upstream, a large bridge is being constructed. Everyone is excited, but Toichi has mixed feelings about it. One day, Toichi meets a mysterious girl. Having no family and no place to go, Toichi lets her stay with him, but this encounter starts to bring about changes to Toichi's life.

Journalist Guo lives together with her mother and daughter in the same residence. The relation of three generations looks placid but there is actually a fierce undercurrent of rebellion and resistance.

A vingança norteia duas histórias diferentes, que se passam em épocas e continentes distintos. Quando duas mulheres veem seus amados mortos, decidem se aproximar dos assassinos. Elas arquitetam uma estratégia de vingança que não é orientada pela violência, mas, sim, pelos sentimentos amorosos. Planejam seduzir aqueles que arruinaram suas vidas. Duas vinganças, iguais no plano, diferentes no modo. Portugal e Japão, séculos 18 e 21.

Kanjaki, a middle-aged man, goes to a quiet countryside village. He puts his helmet on a shrunken old woman whom he meets by chance in a shop. As soon as he presses the buttons on the helmet one by one, she suddenly remembers forgotten happy moments and is rejuvenated. This is just the beginning. Kanjaki goes on to make the village people recall their happy pasts, but his face is lined with worry and a sadness that deepens. What is the secret of this helmet? And what is he trying to do with it? Director Sabu’s Happiness suggests happiness and suffering are intertwined through the unusual scenario of a helmet reminding people of the happiest moments of their lives. Sabu convincingly portrays the notion that memory is the source of both happiness and suffering, and how memory affects our lives.

Uma história em três partes que se inicia no fim da década de 1990 e acompanha Tao, bela jovem da província de Shanxi que se vê dividida entre dois pretendentes, seus amigos de infância Zhang e Liangzi. Um é herdeiro de um posto de gasolina, enquanto o outro trabalha em uma mina de carvão, e as consequências da decisão da mulher reverberam em 2014 e 2025.

With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country set out to establish a cultural identity through cinema and to share it with the world. This engaging documentary looks at the movement's legacy.

O Longa relata quatro histórias, entre elas uma sobre uma trabalhadora sexual em um bordel de luxo, que refletem uma sociedade em plena mutação, na qual o capitalismo desenfreado gera uma grande desigualdade e uma colossal falta de humanidade.

Em Chengdu, na China, uma fábrica estatal de armamento militar é demolida para dar lugra a um prédio com vários andares onde serão construídos apartamentos de luxo. Com relatos de trabalhadores sobre suas vidas e a fábrica, o filme trás três gerações de histórias que mostram como os tempos mudaram.

Soon after he lands in America, Ali, a Muslim man from Pakistan, begins his search for his estranged wife, Nadia. On his journey, Ali meets with Teppei, a Japanese traveller hitchhiking his way across America, and Sarah, a local trailer park girl, who help him in his search. The three travellers succeed in finding Nadia, who, to Ali’s dismay, is living a new life in Phoenix with another man. Ali spends the rest of his stay in America with Teppei and Sarah, anxiously wondering where his life is leading. In the brief time they are together, the three companions commit to helping one another. Ali, Teppei and Sarah begin a new journey, to find their own individual identities and in the process they find each other. Big River is a road movie, a tale about the borderless realm of friendship and its ability to transcend culture.

A young dancer, her security-guard boyfriend and others work at World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international monuments without ever leaving the Beijing suburbs.

Three disaffected youths live in Datong in 2001, part of the new "Birth Control" generation. Fed on a steady diet of popular culture, both Western and Chinese, the characters of Unknown Pleasures represent a new breed in the People's Republic of China, one detached from reality through the screen of media and the internet.

Inverno, 1979. Na pequena cidade de Fenyang na remota província chinesa de Shanxi, um grupo de teatro apresenta uma peça glorificando Mao Zedong. A vida de Minliang e dos outros camaradas gira em torno das representações e das histórias de amor que acontecem. Na Primavera de 1980, a vida do grupo de teatro sofre mudanças, com a entrada das influências ocidentais. Quando a política do Governo muda, os subsídios do grupo são cortados e a companhia é privatizada. A incerteza paira sobre o futuro do grupo e sobre as relações entre os vários elementos.

Acclaimed director Abolfazl Jalili offers a compassionate story of the young Afghan refugee who lives illegally in Iran. 14-year-old Kaim drifts to the Delbaran crossing on the Afghan-Iran border, where he finds work at a coffee shop frequented by truck drivers. He feels at home in this small oasis of friendliness, though the sounds of war can be heard in the background, violent bandits prowl the roads, and opium is everywhere. As we watch Kaim run from one task to another day after day, we soon realize that we are watching a boy who is being cheated out of his childhood.

Em busca de estudantes e de pessoas interessadas em aprender a ler e escrever, um grupo de professores vaga por uma região de extremo perigo na fronteira do Irã com o Iraque.

Women struggle in a Shanghai brothel where everything only appears to be beautiful.

Sukezo, a farmer manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but business does not go well and the family becomes progressively poorer.

A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and Yakuza activities.

A supernatural arthouse drama.