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After a 17-year absence, a pig farmer’s sister suddenly returns home with her baby. As they remember their childhood, they resolve to dig up “something” they buried long ago.Read More »

Adiantum Blue is about a pianist with a terminal illness, who wishes to spend her last happy days with her lover in Nice.Read More »

A lush documentary on the past, present and future of sexually explicit art prints known as shunga. Framed by director Junko Hirata, the film connects with the human stories behind the creation and preservation of erotic prints, woven together with Japanese history, culture and craftsmanship.Read More »

Katagiri, a highly ambitious young detective, teams up with older detective Takiguchi, who is about to retire, to investigate a murder that took place by Sumida River. Katagiri is annoyed by Takiguchi’s pushiness, but is surprised to hear that the victim was a suspect in the 300 million yen robbery.Read More »

2005 Japanese drama film, directorial debut of Eiji Yamada. Taking place over the course of a single night, the film follows a woman, played by Tsugumi (Noriko’s Dinner Table, Moonlight Whispers), who loses her house keys and wanders the streets thinking of her ex-boyfriend, played by Nao Omori (Vibrator, Ichi the Killer).Read More »

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The final collaboration between Hiroshi Teshigahara and Kobo Abe, 240 Hours in a Day is a four-panel projection produced for the 1970 Osaka Expo. Set in the near future, a scientist invents an accelerator that increases the speed of human activity tenfold.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 »

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 »

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 »