Adventure-drama based on the life of Naomi Uemura (Nishida), the first Japanese mountain climber to scale most of the world’s highest peaks and explore the arctic and Antarctic.Read More »

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Based on renowned novelist Kenneth Pai Hsien-yung’s novella, Jade Love is regarded as the best film adaptation of all of Pai’s work. Set in 1940s Southern China and told through the eyes of a 10 year old boy, Jung, the film relates the story of Jung’s beautiful nanny Jade and her mysteriously reclusive “younger brother” Ching Sheng. Jade is a middle-age woman who’s sweet and graceful appearance belies her unfulfilled inner life. The film represents complex desire within a tragic story and explores the situation of women in traditional Chinese society. It depicts female psychology in a classical, realist style within a nuanced and exquisite atmosphere.Read More »

Female infidelity leads a man, Jean, to commit suicide. When he is dead his brother, Jerôme, starts having an affair with the same woman, Mary. But… there is a photography left of her first brother, who the second is getting closer to finding – hence the title (6,5 X 11 – an film negative format).Read More »

A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.Read More »

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A film about the problems faced by Japan’s indigenous Ainu people in the northern island of Hokkaido.Read More »

An experimental compilation of live performances and video art by Ranko Shinohara and Hijokaidan.Read More »

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In Osaka during the Edo period, ruler Sanada Yukimura was in losing position. Fearing Toyotomi’s blood descendants would end, he impregnates one Shinano female ninja with the seed of Toyotomi in hopes of continuing the bloodline.Read More »

Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involving Kyoshiro in the conflict against his will is a bad idea.Read More »

This film of the sleepy-eyed ronin series has the hero talked into escorting a precious religious artifact to Kyoto, Japan. A sect of Christian swordsmen are lying in wait to steal the statuette. What does it take for the reluctant man to accept the assignment? Why, enjoying the company of a virgin daughter of course.Read More »