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Overview of films

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  Mishima – A Life in Four Chapters

  Famous and stylish film version by Paul Schrader of the controversial and spectacular life and self-imposed death of the militant Japanese writer M

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• Yoshiwara

  Melodrama by the master Ophuls about the love of a Russian spy for a Japanese geisha. Sardonic and tragic. The ideal Japan created in a Paris studi

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  The Crimson Kimono

  From an age when they still made real police films. Two detectives, one with a Japanese background, seek a killer in Little Tokyo, the Japanese dis

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  Nô

  What does Japanese Nô theatre have to do with saying ‘no’ to the separation of French-speaking Quebec from Canada? An original film abo

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  Die Tochter des Samurai

  Riefenstahl’s teacher serenades Japanese fire-spitting mountains and their aversion to democracy. That was not appreciated in Japan.

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  The Teahouse of the August Moon

  Marlon Brando plays a Japanese guide in a Hollywood film shot entirely on Okinawa. Americans try to teach the islanders civilisation and democracy.

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  Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

  A samurai in New York. Entertaining and exciting homage to the kings of the Japanese B-film. Maybe the nicest Jarmusch ever. The protagonist is the

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  Erleuchtung Garantiert

  Two brothers try to conquer their mid-life crisis in a Japanese Zen monastery. They manage by trial and error. Comic and charming film made with a

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  Harakiri

  The second (silent) film by the great master, in which Fritz Lang tells the Madame Butterfly story with tension and style. With live music.

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  Ana-ta-han

  The great Von Sternberg fell in love with Japan and filmed a true story in a studio there. After a shipwreck a group of soldiers lands on an island

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  Das Geschriebene Gesicht

  Swiss film-maker reveals his fascination with Japanese Kabuki theatre in a fine mix of feature and documentary. With Tamasaburo Bando; the actor wh

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  Topsy-Turvy

  The successful ninetheenth-century operetta duo Gilbert and Sullivan are in danger of splitting up, but Japan brings salvation: The Mikado is a sma

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