Plot:
An oddball science teacher, Makoto Kito, decides to risk life and limb to steal plutonium from an atomic power plant in order to undergo the hazardous task of building his own home-made atomic bomb. He simultaneously builds a dummy bomb to send to the authorities, who know the plutonium is missing, to prove he means business. Calling himself “Number Nine”, Kito’s first demand: Don’t preempt his baseball game!Read More »
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Shinjiro is the owner of a struggling small factory desperately in need of fresh capital to stay afloat. Hoping to secure a crucial bank loan, he deposits all his life savings at a bank — but at that very moment a robbery takes place. In a misguided attempt to stop the thief from escaping with all the money, Shinjiro helps by gathering up the remaining cash. Despite his intentions, the robber still makes off with Shinjiro’s savings, and Shinjiro impulsively follows him, trying to change his mind. Unfortunately, onlookers assume Shinjiro is an accomplice to the crime, and he suddenly finds himself on the run alongside the thief in a case of tragic misunderstanding. Read More »
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Yumeji is the final film in youth-gone-berserk auteur Seijun Suzuki’s acclaimed Taisho Trilogy. Sensual and absurdist, it spins a ghost story around the character and work of real-life painter and poet Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934). The eponymous character — conjured by Suzuki as a chronic philanderer and dreamer played by former rock star Kenji Sawada — is plagued with ideals of perfect beauty and the terror of his own demise. He falls in love with women, but can never capture their hearts. He is constantly escaping his rivals, but can never face them down.Read More »
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The Katakuri family has just opened their guesthouse in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more.Read More »
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Capone Cries a Lot (カポネ大いに泣く, Kapone ōi ni naku?, aka Capone’s Flood of Tears) is a 1985 Japanese comedy film directed by Seijun Suzuki. It stars Kenichi Hagiwara as a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.Read More »
An emotionless hit man is sent on a mission to a remote town. There he stays with a caretaker / driver / servant / doctor who is given minimal instruction over the phone by “the organization.” A prostitute joins them. Death is inevitable, but whose?Read More »
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When a gun belonging to a police officer is stolen, it ends up in the hands of a student, who decides to use it on a yakuza who beat him recently. Now the police officer is hot on the student’s trail, and he’s determined to prevent the gun from going off.Read More »
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A school was built on one of the Gates of Hell, behind which hordes of demons await the moment they will be free to roam the Earth. Hiruko is a goblin sent to Earth on a reconnaissance mission. He beheads students in order to assemble their heads on the demons’ spider-like bodies. Hieda, an archaeology professor, and Masao, a haunted student, investigate the gory deaths and eventually battle Hiruko.Read More »
Synopsis:
Yumeji is the final film in youth-gone-berserk auteur Seijun Suzuki’s acclaimed Taisho Trilogy. Sensual and absurdist, it spins a ghost story around the character and work of real-life painter and poet Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934). The eponymous character — conjured by Suzuki as a chronic philanderer and dreamer played by former rock star Kenji Sawada — is plagued with ideals of perfect beauty and the terror of his own demise. He falls in love with women, but can never capture their hearts. He is constantly escaping his rivals, but can never face them down.Read More »