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Overview of films

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  Ana-ta-han

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  Josef von Sternberg | 92' | Japan | -

  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…
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  The Crimson Kimono

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  Samuel Fuller | 82' | USA | -

  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…
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  Erleuchtung Garantiert

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  Doris Dörrie | 108' | Germany | International premiere

  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…
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  Das Geschriebene Gesicht

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  Daniel Schmid | 89' | Switzerland | -

  Swiss film-maker reveals his fascination with Japanese Kabuki theatre in a fine mix of feature and documentary. With Tamasaburo Bando; the actor who p
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  Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

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  Jim Jarmusch | 116' | USA | -

  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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  Harakiri

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  Fritz Lang | 79' | Germany | -

  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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  Mishima – A Life in Four Chapters

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  Paul Schrader | 120' | USA | -

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

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  Robert Lepage | 83' | Canada | -

  What does Japanese Nô theatre have to do with saying ‘no’ to the separation of French-speaking Quebec from Canada? An original film about an unlikely
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  The Teahouse of the August Moon

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  Daniel Mann | 115' | USA | -

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

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  Arnold Fanck | 120' | Germany | -

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

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  Mike Leigh | 159' | United Kingdom | -

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

• Yoshiwara

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  102' | France | -

  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…