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Takeshis’
Kitano does what he likes. After the success of Zatoïchi, he presents a subversive exercise that holds the middle line – in as far as…Published on: -
The Adventure of Denchu Kozo
Made a year before Tsukamoto’s breakthrough with Tetsuo. Super-8 and no-budget spectacle about a bullied schoolboy, a nice girl, time travel and the bPublished on: -
Clear People
Pictorial observations of the light on a girl in an apartment with her grandma. Summer boredom. Catch us listen to the radio. As if Vermeer…Published on: -
Green Mind, Metal Bats
Baseball film, but not a sport film. But – just to make up – it does have a supporting role for Wakamatsu Koji as the…Published on: -
The First Emperor
Road movie through the Japan unknown to us and the film maker. He tries new roads. New stimulants. In this way any landscape can be…Published on: -
The Dark Harbour
You’re looking for a nice, sensitive yet not common film with a special style? Something to be surprised that and to talk about? Here it…Published on: -
The Sun
In Sokurov’s series about 20th-century tyrants, this time crucial days from the life of Emperor Hirohito, just before and after the Japanese surrenderPublished on: -
Princess Raccoon
Youthful and wild fantasy about a crafty old master. A cheerful and bizarre mixture of styles and stories. About the love of a princess. And…Published on: -
Blue Film Woman
When rates fall on the Tokyo exchange, Kenzo offers his wife to his landlord to pay his debts. Later his daughter Mariko takes revenge on…Published on: -
Episode 0 The House of The Rising Sun
Epilogue (but shot earlier) of an anti-capitalist parable. In a provincial town, economic life is virtually wiped out by a major company. A harsh battPublished on: