A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
Procedurally-generated frames slowly expand in density to visually explore the mind of a psychopathic, narcissistic teenager, up until the demise of the subject.
Along with vegetable and sea life, the camera is but one element of a sensual ride along a coastal road and playground in this masterful short.
The lives of an American expat and a half Japanese construction worker living in rural Japan are forever changed over the course of three days as they engage in an unexpected romance.
A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.
The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
Although the two sisters are flesh and blood, they are women after all. This is a film that depicts the woman's conflict between love and sexuality with a flame of unfathomable tenacity, and depicts the ferocity of her human instincts as a sensitive image.
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
During her study in Japan, Viona falls in love with Yamada, a Japanese photographer. Their relationship is soon ruined when her long lost crush comes back into her life.
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by greedy entrepreneurs. Mothra's fairies arrive and are aided by the journalists in a plea for its return. As their requests are denied, Godzilla arises near Nagoya and the people of Infant Island must decide if they are willing to answer Japan's own pleas for help.
Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's mammoth film follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City. The film was intended to be screened via dual projector set-up.
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon (Ciaran McMenamin), Lt. Jim Reardon (Kiefer Sutherland) and Maj. Ian Campbell (Robert Carlyle) are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. While Campbell wants to rebel and attempt an escape, Gordon tries to take a more stoic approach, an attitude that proves to be surprisingly resonant.
Kenzo, Azusa's husband, has a heart condition but his passion for sex has not diminished one iota from the time he was a virile young man. Azusa does not refuse her husband for he is very wealthy and if he should happen to die of excess sex she would inherit a vast fortune. If only Azusa could kill him without staining her own hands. Unable to do it alone, she asks the aid of Naoya who is only too glad to help.
Toshihiko, a high school boy, hates Kozo, his father, enough to kill him. His mother had lived in terror of him and, at last, broken in spirit, she had left and her pitiful departing figure is still seared in Toshihiko's mind. Soon, Kozo marries Asako who is young and beautiful. An idea forms in Toshihiko's mind to get even with his father for the shabby way he had treated his mother. He wonders if he can do it through Asako.
Executed and printed with two hands, that is to say, made using all possible means of imprinting the right and arm freshly applied ink, sand paper, stamps, etc. Everything was done on non-emulsion clear leader.
His young wife was assaulted by a man, and they continued their loving relationship after that, so they avoided a criminal case, but a divorce by agreement was reached in the family court. However, in her hidden side, her husband was also a molester. This is a story that exposes these crazy sexual lives and depicts the madness of sexual desire between men and women.
When the strongest earthquake in a century hit Mexico in 2017, everyone had eyes on the rescue of 12-year old Frida - until the story took a very strange twist.
"The Pine's Branches" is the latest work in Murata Tomoyasu’s series “Sei toshi ni matsuwaru kioku no tabi (Journey through memories of life and death),” which he began following the Tohoku earthquake in 2011.
Hitomi, who works for a publishing company, was in a hurry to go home after hearing the news of his father, Shinsuke. However, when Shinsuke, who should have died near his house, appears in a car, he is introduced to Yuki who sits in the passenger seat, and is told that he will divorce his mother, Sanae. Meanwhile, Sanae was checking the documents for divorce talks with lawyer Ishii. However, the two have already become a deep relationship beyond the relationship between the client and the lawyer. Although her eyes were heartbroken by the situation of such a family, she also had an affair with the editor-in-chief of the publishing company.