Japan

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Once again on the lam, Matsu is helped by a strip club worker who holds a grudge against the detective who’s trying to find her.Read More »

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Keisuke, an aspiring samurai-movie actor lands a major role in a new film, but must contend with a director who has nothing but scorn for him, but who continually fawns over the film’s obnoxious ham of a star. Meanwhile, Keisuke has been dumped by his girlfriend, Eri, after she becomes heartbroken when he considers working full-time as a bar manager rather than pursuing his dream. Through her job as a translator, she meets an Italian professor who claims to talk to trees, and who immediately starts trying to woo her.Read More »

Synopsis
The movie takes place in the five-day period before, during and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which several students endure while marooned in their school gymnasium.Read More »

Three centuries ago, a precious sword has been stolen by Kazamatsuri — the sword, which historic and symbolic value is priceless for the clan (Shogun Tokugawa donated it to clan 80 years before that, at the same time that he established them as the local rulers). Lord’s counselor’s young son Heishiro goes to retrieve the sword himself to protect the clan from the shame or possible demise. He is accompanied with two friends, Shintaro and Tadasuke, and followed by the ninjas of the clan. After Kazamatsuri wounds Heishiro and kills one of his friends, the young aristocrat still wants revenge more than sword itself, but meanwhile have to recover from his wounds, in the small forest house of a lonely samurai and his daughter. At the same time, Kamazatsuri stays in nearby town in the entertainment center run by Okatsu and falls into her. The older samurai tries to dissuade Heishiro from fighting with Kamazatsuri, but is himself gradually drawn into the conflict.Read More »

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When Kotaro meets Kuroe, it is love at first sight. They resolve to spend the rest of their lives together. But one day, Kuroe collapses and X-rays reveal something resembling a flower budding in her lung. She refuses surgery and goes home with Kotaro, unable to drink water, lest the bud blooms. When Kotaro discovers that other flowers in the room cause the first water lily to shrivel up, so he fills the house with fresh flowers. Kotaro loses his job, but is more than ever desperate to meet the expense of fresh flowers for Kuroe. Kotaro is finally offered a job with the florist. The house literally shrinks around Kuroe, as the flower blooms inside her and she fades away.Read More »

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Two years ago, Ryuji Kazama, an executive from the Daido-gumi, fought to rescue his brother-in-arms, Fujinami, who had been kidnapped by the Hanamura-kai. After completing his sentence, Ryuji returns to society, only to find that the organization has changed. His former junior members are now under other executives, with Wakagashira Saeki expanding his power. Ryuji’s only remaining junior is Tatsuya. As the next leader of the group is being discussed, attention turns to the power struggle between the cunning Wakagashira Saeki and the old-school fighter Ryuji. Saeki’s schemes begin to surface. Is he colluding with Okabe, an executive from the rival Hanamura-kai? The conflict between Ryuji and Saeki intensifies, and Ryuji, a yakuza who values honor, must decide his path.Read More »

A man dies, and leaves a message to contact only one person, a young women who works as a waitress in the city. This women is by no means a friend, but rather an acquaintance. But, over the many times that they crossed paths, a promise was made. The promise was to bury this man when he dies.Read More »

High-school student Chiyoko is overcome with despair after losing both her mother and her pet dog. Her mother liked Fellini’s film, “La Strada”, and her efforts to watch it bring her in contact with a former fellow film studies student named Masamune. Chiyoko and Masamune go on a journey, bound for the ocean.Read More »

From DVD booklet:
The works recorded here are made by Jun Kurosawa mainly in his years
at university.
The remarks on Jun Kurosawa’s works have been focusing on his
impulse of destruction, which are expressed in degenerative keywords
such as “death” and “thanatos”: whereas aesthetical images are
also often mentioned. Is it because his distinct features help them to
establish such images? The features can be described as “film scratch”
and “harsh noise,” all of which can be found in his masterpieces such
as “NEKO-MIMI (1994)” and “JESUS WITH ONE LEG (1991-1994).”Read More »