Kumiko Ito

A singular deadpan comedy, The Passion tells a story of a young woman raised in a convent named Frances-ko (Mayuko Iwasa), after Saint Francesco. Distressed by not knowing about love and sex, she calls out for a sign from above, but instead hears a voice from below. A human-faced growth speaks to her from between her legs, constantly berating her, calling out "Woman, you are worthless!" Mr. Koga, as she names it, continues the verbal abuse, yet Frances-ko somehow adapts, forming an adversarial yet symbiotic relationship. This bizarre film, based on Kaoruko Himeno's acclaimed 1997 novel of the same name, is skillfully directed by Ryoko Yoshida, lensed by veteran cinematographer Akiko Ashizawa, grounded by Iwasa's show-stopping performance and enlivened by the hilarious Kanji Furutachi, who lends his voice to the chauvinistic Koga. The soundtrack boasts an unmissable eclectic score by legendary experimental musician and composer Otomo Yoshihide.

Фильм снят по автобиографической повести японского писателя Ясуши Иноуе, где показана любовь в семье на примере отношений автора и его стареющей матери, у которой развивается слабоумие.

A phone conversation occurs between a man and a woman. They both state their love for each other and that they will do this so they can be together. The woman is in a hotel room with a view of the port. The man is inside of a parked car with a view of the ocean. A man named Colonel appears and hands the man a box with a loaded gun inside. The Colonel states "its a present from the witch". The woman's name is Meiko (Michiko Kichise) and she is the young wife of Takamitsu Temiyako (Takamitsu Temiyako) - president of a large medical corporation. The man in the parked car is Dr. Tokito Takahiko (Hiroshi Abe) an employee of the large medical corporation. This evening, Meiko and Tokito will implement their plan to murder Meiko's husband and frame his death as a suicide.

Действие фильма разворачивается в аэропорту и на борту самолета. Каждый рейс обслуживает множество профессионалов — пилотов, стюардов и стюардесс, наземных команд, механиков, диспетчеров, контролеров… Их главная задача — обеспечить безопасность полета. Обычный рабочий день, обычный рейс — самолет взлетает по расписанию и направляется в Гонолулу. Для Кадзухиро, помощника командира корабля, этот полет — последний экзамен на пути к должности командира корабля, а для стюардессы Эцуко — первый международный рейс. Однако по техническим причинам самолету приходится вернуться обратно в Японию… Режиссер Синобу Ягути, прославившийся в Японии фильмами о юношеской команде синхронного плаванья («Water boys») и о школьницах, организовавших джаз-банд («Swing girls»), с присущим ему юмором рассказывает о тех сторонах авиации, о которых обычный пассажир даже не подозревает.

Sakura is a 20-year-old college student who has sex for money to fund her shopping addiction. After her customers leave her apartment, she spends her time spying on Leo, a young, beautiful, and (dyed) blond-haired boy, who works at a male escort service across the street. One day, Leo pays her a visit, and so starts an unlikely friendship. But Leo has a troubled past. He is the son of a prostitute who worked for his current pimp and died before she could repay money that she owed. He himself entered the business when he graduated from junior high school. Though Leo refuses to make love to Sakura (he has a policy of not having sex outside of work), the two fall in love and become inseparable until Leo gets into a fight with Sakura's boyfriend and gets him into a car accident. Leo turns himself in, and Sakura moves to Okinawa to wait for him at their dream destination.

Steel-worker Saito Tetsuo, driven by an unexplained anxiety, steals bike after bike to move away from his hometown to Tokyo. Through snow-storms and empty landscapes, the breathtaking photography allows us to look deep into the mindscape of a man searching for an answer - although the question itself is never quite articulated.

Shinji (Shinichi Tsutsumi) steps out of a train station to find himself transported back to 1964.