Hiromichi Horikawa

Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa

Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II

Tragedy about a terminally ill girl.

Tragedy about a terminally ill girl.

A Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He comes off at a certain moment to look for his luck in the gold rush in Alaska. But he does not forget them.

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

A teenage drama film about Makiko Hayashi, a top student who is aiming to get into University of Tokyo, together with a group of other students. She befriends one of the school's misfits, Yoshiyuki Mizuno, which starts to change her life. The film follows the way Makiko Hayashi's life changes throughout the time, from a model student with high ambitions, to someone who is uncertain enough about her future, that she feels the only way out is to start anew.

This tremendous blockbuster hit from 1970, showing the rise to power of Tojo Hideki, is perhaps the most important film to come out of Japan since the 7 Samurai! Interspersed with actual footage dating back to the 1930’s and throughout the Great Pacific War it shows in exciting detail the early successes and ultimate failure of the Japanese war machine. Never before has there been a chronicle of this magnitude about the war in the Pacific Theater of Operations, rivaling Saving Private Ryan with its intense battle scenes. With a brilliant cast featuring Kobayashi Keiju as Tojo, Yamamura So as former Prime Minister Yonai, Mifune Toshiro as Admiral Yamamoto, and Kayama Yuzo as an intrepid newspaper reporter whose articles detailing Japanese losing battles infuriates Tojo to the point of putting his life in danger! The final hour of this film features some of the most disturbing aspects of how the Japanese fought to save their nation and their honor!

Тору Мацусьта - профессиональный киллер. Его привлекает не убийство и не богатство. Оружие является неотъемлемой часть его самого. Неожиданно он встречается с человеком, чьё искусство убивать намного выше, чем у него. Эта тягучая гангстерская драма в большей степени сконцентрирована не на действии, а на философии и психоанализе.

Ex-jazz pianist turned promoter finds he is successful, but empty. When an entrepreneur sends him to Moscow with a jazz combo, he falls in with the dissident youth of the city, and again finds life empty.

The last judgment.

Фильм состоит из нескольких сегментов, каждый из которых снимала определённая съёмочная группа. В центре каждой истории случай некой аферы/махинации. Действие всех историй развивается в разных городах — в Париже, Амстердаме, Токио, Неаполе.

A Japanese detective, Kikuchi, is framed for a murder and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency to investigate his case and investigates Mitsue Takazawa, the wife of a local trading firm whom is really a crime lord responsible for Kikuchi's imprisonment and now sets sights on Setsuko, a woman Kikuchi becomes romantically involved with.

A Japanese detective, Kikuchi, is framed for a murder and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency to investigate his case and investigates Mitsue Takazawa, the wife of a local trading firm whom is really a crime lord responsible for Kikuchi's imprisonment and now sets sights on Setsuko, a woman Kikuchi becomes romantically involved with.

Tatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses anyone he can to further his career in this moral drama. When things get too hot, he bails and goes to work for a prominent politician (Koreya Senda). Soon he has impregnated the daughter (Yoko Tsukasa) of his boss, but he figures marriage will solve his current problems. His happiness is short-lived when he is stalked by a union radical he once double-crossed who now seeks vengeance.

Господин Исино — респектабельный чиновник известной компании, у него есть жена, двое детей, приличная зарплата и молодая любовница. Неожиданная встреча на ночной улице дает ему возможность обеспечить алиби невиновного человека, но для этого ему придется признаться в наличии внебрачной связи, и тем самым полностью разрушить свою устоявшуюся жизнь.

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

Япония. 16 век. В стране полыхает гражданская война, повсюду орудуют банды разбойников и мародеров. Бедные крестьяне нанимают для своей защиты семерых самураев, которые немного сплачивают раздробленных и малодушных жителей деревни в этой борьбе…Куросава показывает яркие, выразительные и такие достоверные персонажи, что, кажется, всему происходящему зритель был свидетелем сам.Несмотря на реалистичность и беспощадность в подаче материала, картина пронизана высокой поэтикой и лиризмом, жизнеутверждающим пониманием и человечностью. Этот фильм стал в буквальном смысле культовым для кинематографистов всего мира.

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa