Nagasaki Shunichi - Focus
Overview of films
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Heart, Beating in the Dark (original version)
This Super8 film that is not well enough known is one of the Modernist Japanese classics of the 1980s. A young couple borrows a friend’s apar
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The Enchantment
Stylised, idiosyncratic thriller with a typical mixture of sensuality and irrationality. The psychiatrist Sotomura becomes fascinated by his patien
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Dogs
Film noir and hard-boiled love story shot in black & white and on video, with wonderful camerawork, montage and casting about the hard female
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The Drive
Beautiful thriller and wonderful psychological portrait. Muroi Shigeru – also the star of Heart Beating in the Dark – sparkles as a wom
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The Summer Yuki Gave Up Rock Music
Nagasaki’s film about the explosion of a group of friends is situated in the music business. A female vocalist breaks with her manager and se
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Some Kinda Love
Unusual, tragicomic three-cornered relationship refers to Jules et Jim, but is about real people. The life of a urban planning official and that of
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Wild Side
Very personal, experimental video made for the satellite channel Wowow, about the three cornered relationship between a radio DJ and two very diffe
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The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September
Nagasaki’s first 35mm film is an emotional story about the biker who doesn’t want a ride his bike after his best friend deliberately ki
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Heart, Beating in the Dark (new version)
A remake, a sequel and the making of Nagasaki’s Super8 classic of the same name resulted in a gripping, many layered moral tale. What has bec
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London Calling
Nagasaki is in London for the screening of Heart, Beating in the Dark. He hangs around and roams the streets looking for an old girlfriend
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After That
Coming to terms with Nagasaki’s motorcycle crash on 9 November 1980 is motivation and subject here. Apparently aimless street scenes and outb
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Stranger
Nagasaki turns the demands of the genre to his hand in this direct-to-video thriller. A stranger first gives a female taxi driver too much tip, but