Nagasaki Shunichi - Focus
Overview of films
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After That
Nagasaki Shunichi | 60' | Japan | None
Coming to terms with Nagasaki’s motorcycle crash on 9 November 1980 is motivation and subject here. Apparently aimless street scenes and outbursts of -
Dogs
Nagasaki Shunichi | 78' | Japan | None
Film noir and hard-boiled love story shot in black & white and on video, with wonderful camerawork, montage and casting about the hard female cop… -
The Drive
Nagasaki Shunichi | 93' | Japan | None
Beautiful thriller and wonderful psychological portrait. Muroi Shigeru – also the star of Heart Beating in the Dark – sparkles as a woman who shop… -
The Enchantment
Nagasaki Shunichi | 109' | Japan | None
Stylised, idiosyncratic thriller with a typical mixture of sensuality and irrationality. The psychiatrist Sotomura becomes fascinated by his patient M -
Heart, Beating in the Dark (new version)
Nagasaki Shunichi | 104' | Japan | European première
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… -
Heart, Beating in the Dark (original version)
Nagasaki Shunichi | 75' | Japan | None
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… -
London Calling
Nagasaki Shunichi | 13' | Japan | -
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 -
The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September
Nagasaki Shunichi | 104' | Japan | International première
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 killed himself… -
Some Kinda Love
Nagasaki Shunichi | 94' | Japan | None
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 an -
Stranger
Nagasaki Shunichi | 90' | Japan | None
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,… -
The Summer Yuki Gave Up Rock Music
Nagasaki Shunichi | 72' | Japan | None
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 sets… -
A Tender Place
Nagasaki Shunichi | 201' | Japan | None
Stunning drama with elegant, labyrinthine plot about the disappearance of a girl aged five. The mother continues to fantasise about her return, while