“Passionate Pupils” (original French title: Élèves passionnées) is an adult-oriented French film directed by José Bénazéraf and released in 1986.Read More »

In collaboration with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history released.Read More »

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Infused with a jazzy, nouvelle vague–inspired energy, Bo Widerberg’s feature debut has the freshness of youth. Building on his film criticism’s call for a socially relevant Swedish cinema, the writer turned director offers a vivid portrait of a young factory worker (Inger Taube) finding her way toward independence as she weathers unexpected pregnancy, learns hard lessons from relationships with two very different men, and leaves behind the only home she has ever known. Abetted by fellow filmmaker Jan Troell’s coolly beautiful monochrome cinematography, Widerberg takes a bold first step in his mission to create a cinema that is both engaged and engaging.Read More »

Addiction can be your own personal Hell.Read More »

When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.Read More »

Fukami, a janitor at high school whose true identity is a professional assassin raised by Majima who killed his father, fights 9 assassins to save Majima’s daughter.Read More »

Set in a post-fire landscape, anthos traces two bodies as they lean toward the earth, opening themselves to processes of decay and renewal. Bound and entangled with ropes, knots, and charred treebarks, their interaction unfolds through gestures of restraint, touch, and growth. The film imagines queer bodies as tender, fertile terrains — where ecological and intimate transformations take root — a quiet meditation on regeneration, intimacy, vulnerability, and care.Read More »

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When Dane returns from the army, Vera awaits him at the station, ready to live together with him. Yet beneath the veil of enthusiasm lies anxiety for their future. The couple sets off for the mountain village where Vera’s parents live, but find life in the harsh alpine conditions too difficult. They decide to move down into the valley, where they meet a discontented couple whose marriage has been marred by an affair. Vera and Dane also encounter difficulties in their relationship, but the tragic example of the other couple helps them realise that their home lies in the place of their birth – beneath the free skies in the mountains.Read More »

A group of old men take over an empty house and proclaim it to be a new “country” they have founded, called Yama. (“Yamato” is one of the oldest names for Japan, “yama” itself means “mountain.”) The men basically refuse to be thrown out of this domicile by some gangsters, and they are successful for several months. Their resistance started on December 8th, the date Pearl Harbor was bombed (not the 7th because one crosses the International Date Line and gains a day while heading west from the U.S.) and lasts until August 15th, the date when Japan officially surrendered at the end of World War II.Read More »