Kou Machida
Рождение : 1962-01-15, Sakai, Osaka, Japan
Narrator (voice)
A fantasy world with only cats as far as the eye can see. The awe and fear a person can feel in a world that doesn't know mankind.
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An actress suffering from an identity crisis finds herself spirited away from the bustle of Tokyo to a tropical paradise.
Three digital short films: 'Influenza' by Bong Joon-ho, 'Kyo-shin' by Sogo Ishii, 'Dance Me to the End of Love' by Yu Lik-wai
The Writer
An autobiographical docudrama about an attempt to remake Alain Resnais' 1959 film Hiroshima Mon Amour.
Novel
A down-on-his luck writer meets a movie producer, who asks him to write a screenplay on the condition that he visit locations for the film. Chaos ensues.
Novel
A washed-up former punk rocker is frustrated by his work at his grandmother's hot spring. He returns to Tokyo and finds himself entangled in a web of crime.
Officer Matsui
A meek agent at the Showa Life Insurance company receives a phone call from a customer who says that she's planning to commit suicide and wants to know if her policy will pay out. Concerned about her safety, the agent visits her house only to find that her young son has hanged himself. As he investigates further, more and more people connected with this family start having "accidents," and if he's not careful, he might be next.
Policeman
Young Wakana is the daughter of a husband and wife comedy act, who have worked together for 20 years without any big success. Wakana’s parents quarrel constantly, and her mother often threatens to leave. When one day her father disappears, Wakana sets out to find him.
Minako, a Tokyo housewife, is depressed that everyone has an active life outside the home except her. Taking her inspiration from TV reports of a hitch-hiking chainsaw murderer, Minako decides to spice up her life by finding a young lover and running off with him by faking her kidnapping. While her family frets and worries, Minako has a wonderful time. Eventually, though, she decides it's time to go back to her family. Her lover, however, isn't ready for the fun to end, and Minako's fake kidnapping soon becomes all too real.
Jirō Nagai
A youth film depicting society in the late 90's through the eyes of lethargic young adults.
Theme Song Performance
Junk Food consists of four intertwining stories. The first and fourth sections show the morning routine of an blind, old Japanese woman, waking up, buying bread and milk, praying at the family alter; however, it is the second segment where the true story begins.
"Atlanta Boogie" centers around a mock track meet between the "normal" and "good" citizens of Yokohama and those they want to expel from the neighborhood: the illegal foreign workers, the deadbeats, the juvenile delinquents, and elderly.
Kaoru Abe
Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe (Ko Machida) and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki (Reona Hirota).
Stone Tribe Emissary
Идзуми. В это лето происходили странные явления: стояла засуха, распространялась странная болезнь, взорвалась недавно открытая звезда, и упало два метеорита. Некоторое время Идзуми находилась на гране жизни и смерти, но в конце концов, чудесным образом выздоравливает. Однако после болезни девушка сильно изменилась. Однажды, словно в забытье, она отправляется в гору Мико к роднику, где её находят без сознания. Её друг Мао не знает, что ему делать, и слышит от своих друзей Укия и Кики историю из древней индийской книги, очень похожую на то, что произошло в этот раз. Согласно легенде на Идзуми возложена миссия спасения многих людей. Идзуми, не слушая протестов Мао, ночью входит в реку и исчезает навсегда. После этого засуха и болезни прекращаются.
Kumi lives a hippie-like life in Tokyo's outskirts. One night while drunk she stumbles into an abandoned industrial site, except in addition to deserted factories, it is full of forests and greenery. She decides to move there, even further away from the civilization she had already left.
Himself
An in-depth and stylish look at the hardcore punk scene in Japan at the late half of the 70's and the beginning of the 80's. Features bands such as GASTUNK, THE EXECUTE, GAUZE among others.
The film revolves around a pornographer and several of his actors and actresses. One of the women mentions interest in setting up a scene where tampons are forcibly inserted into a girl's vagina as this kind of scene has 'never been done before.' From there the film delves into a blurry of oddball scenes consisting of penis guitar playing and women placing explosives in their lower regions.
