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The voices and the remembrances of May Shigenobu and Masao Adachi – the two characters of Baudelaire’s Super 8mm documentary – are presented onto the backdrop of images with different sources. From the panoramic depiction of Tokyo and Beirut, to found footage material from TV clips and films, The anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu presents itself as a contemporary Fukei Ron, a theoretical reflection on Japanese Landscape.Read More »
A hopeful young college student decides to reunite with a friend from high school a few years after he had lost touch with her. As the night goes on, both find themselves struggling to suppress the youthful feelings brought on by the circumstances of the night.Read More »
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A journalist covering police assigned to a juvenile division enters an affair with one of her subjects.Read More »
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Science-fiction comedy of the XXX kind, In Search of The Ultra-Sex is inspired by a true story : A pandemic infects people everywhere with infinite lust, and the only ones who can save planet Earth are a crappy group of astronauts in space, led by Captain Cock, desperately looking for a solution!
As the Galactic Confederation desperately tries to understand the reason behind this sudden madness, the horrifying truth is discovered by the FBI agents Bambi Darling and Stormy Brushing : The sexual matrix of the Universe known as the Ultra-Sex has been stolen! On board of starship “4skin 5”, Captain Cock and his crew are missioned to solve the mystery and save Planet Earth from an endless orgy!Read More »
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Due to lack of evidence, Jonathan, a kind hearted young man, is released from prison. He returns to his mother who lives in a small house near the dunes. Jonathan is determined to become a different, better man. But even if he strictly obeys the rules, his good intentions are soon put to the test when a young girl comes to live next to him.Read More »
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Laëtitia, Roca, Nico, and Naël get together in a wasteland for their final rehearsal. The group will soon no longer exist because Laëtitia is going faraway to study. A story of these young adults who don’t want to say goodbye.Read More »
From japantimes.co.jp
With 48 feature installments from 1969 to 1995, the “Tora-san” series not only set a Guinness World Record, but kept its Shochiku production studio afloat for decades. While it was drawing fans as reliably as the sunrise, the series was derided by some critics as formulaic: In every episode the titlular peddler hero, played by Kiyoshi Atsumi, returns from his wanderings to his home in Shibamata, a neighborhood in Tokyo’s shitamachi (old downtown), where he reunites with his half-sister Sakura (Chieko Baisho) and other familiar faces. Also, in every episode a new woman comes into his life and, since Tora-san is a bumbler at love, soon leaves it.Read More »
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Luis (Luis Bermejo) is desperate to fulfill his terminally ill daughter’s last wish: to own the prohibitively expensive “Magical Girl Yukiko” dress from her favourite Japanese cartoon. Unemployed, with no prospects, and blinded with grief, Luis turns to extortion when he crosses paths with the beautiful, mentally disturbed Bárbara (Bárbara Lennie). Her marriage threatened by the blackmail, Barbara reluctantly complies with his scheme, even as it sends her spiralling into a world of danger and degradation. Seeking revenge on Luis, she turns for help to the only person who truly knows how damaged she is: retired math teacher Damián (José Sacristán), who has dark secrets of his own. The trio descends into an infernal cycle of deception and double-crosses, in which the struggle between reason and instinct plays out to nerve-jangling effect.Read More »
