Imaginaria is a collection of computer animated short films produced by Miramar Images Inc. The original music was produced by the Austin, Texas, composer Gary Powell, featuring songs by Powell, a longtime producer of family music, and co-writer Chris Martin. Imaginaria was released in 1993, originally on Laserdisc and later on VHS. The films were featured in YTV’s Short Circutz.Read More »
An animated feature film following the dramatic journey of two siblings, Kyona and her brother Adriel, who are running away, because they are being pursued by an unspecified Eastern European country.Read More »
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of achieving.Read More »
A 60-year-old poet, an intellectual and lonely man, often spends his days with visits to the Maiden’s Tower. While visiting the rooms on one of these visits, he encounters the old lantern guard’s belongings. This story attracts much attention of the poet, especially the diary kept by the guard during his life is a mysterious memory book. As he reads the diary, the man, who discovers that the stories told in the diary are very similar to the story of the Maiden Tower legend Hera and Leandros, gets stuck between legends and facts over time. He downstairs neighbor Nesibey in the place of Hera in the legend, and the passion that grows between them is fed by this legend.Read More »
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.Read More »
“Terror on the Beach” is a tense and relatively gripping ABC Movie of the week, starring yet again Dennis Weaver in the role of anxious father and husband of a continuously bickering household. All he ever wanted was to take his family on a camping trip to a secluded beach, but the trip inevitably turns into a nightmarish ordeal. Apart from the typical complications that probably all American model families have to struggle through (like the kid rebelling against their parents and such) there’s the slightly more disturbing situation of a gang of youthful hoodlums with beach buggies terrorizing the living daylights out of them. Inventively cashing in on the contemporary Charles Manson hype, the thugs are hippies that petrify the Glynn family for no reason than to get kicks. Read More »
The film concerns Dr. Akagi, a doctor on an island in the Seto Inland Sea area during World War II. He runs into conflict with the military while trying to combat a hepatitis epidemic. Akagi earns the nickname “Dr. Liver” (カンゾー先生 Kanzō-sensei) because of his work, though the townsfolk use it as a humorous dig at his persistent diagnosis. Though the broad circumstance of Japan slowly losing the war is the setting, many of the interactions and situations tilt into humor, for instance; the very music used for the doctor running from patient to patient has an upbeat and light-hearted tone.Read More »
Not much info on this film out there, but here is a nice little rundown by Keiko McDonald from her book, From Book to Screen: Modern Japanese Literature in Films:
“Uguisu (The Nightingale) drew on a story of the same title published that year by Einosuke Ito. Here the frame of reference is a subgenre that called itself agrarian literature. Ito’s tale is an episodic account of peasants responding to poverty and depravation with cunning, simplicity, and often woeful ignorance.Read More »
After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.Read More »