What's Manzai?!!!

漫才協会 THE MOVIE 舞台の上の懲りない面々

The popular comedy duo "Tarinai Futari" draws the curtains on their legacy in their final "manzai" performance.

This is a story about a son who pursue his career as a comedian by forming a comedy duo with his demented father. "Kazuki, are you still doing comedy?" "Yes, I am. Right now!" The Abe family is a rice farmer in Nishikan Ward, Niigata. The first son, Kazuki is unemployed, living at his parents' house, and writing comedy plot everyday. One day, his father Yoji fell down from a stroke while he was practicing for the local comedy competition. While facing the severe reality of becoming a home helper to his demented father, his companion, Masakazu told him he is giving up on comedy. Struggling between his dream and the reality, childhood and adulthood, he decides to enter the competition as a comedy duo with his demented father. Can miracle happen on stage for the father who lost his memory and the son who finally made up his mind?

Tatsuo and Ikuo have been raised by hard-working parents who run a funeral home. For relief, they practice games of manzai, a Japanese comic vaudeville. Tatsuo grows up to be a handsome chick magnet, while Ikuo is nerdy and unappealing. He spies on his brother to get material for their reality porn show. The show is bleeped heavily, and their bleep language becomes trendy and makes them stars.

Up-and-coming manzai stand-up comedy duo Emi-Abi has lost consummate funny man Unno (a surprisingly touching Tomoya Maeno) to an accident, leaving conceited straight man Jitsudo (Ryu Morioka) to contend with his diminished career prospects as a bland, pretty face entertainer. Guided by his manager Natsumi (Haru Kuroki), who demonstrates stronger comedy chops than her own star, Jitsudo comes to learn the circumstances of his friend's passing, as well as the life-and-death stakes of a career in comedy. Demonstrating a careful balance of tone across tragedy and deadpan and gross-out humor, writer/director Kensaku Watanabe expands "Emi-Abi"'s hilarious premise into a strikingly assured meditation on artistic rivalry and self-actualization.

Tsukaguchi, a comedian, is disliked by the public for his bad behavior and vile style, and shows no signs of selling at all. He and his partner, Kunimatsu, spend their days doing MANZAI (comedy dialogue) at a small theater. One day, the two receive an offer to appear on TV. However, Tsukaguchi has a big problem with his girlfriend, and in the midst of the mixture of reality and delusion, he soon finds himself involved in an irreversible situation as a comedian.

Tobio Kurosawa (Ryuta Sato), who has been part of a manzai (stand up comedy) duo for ten years, finds himself in trouble after his partner Tamotsu Ishii (Yuji Ayabe) quits due to their declining popularity and mounting debts. Tobio then attempts to drink his problems away, but the next morning finds himself locked up in a detention center. At the detention center Tobio meets tough dreadlocked Ryuhei Onizuka (Yusuke Kamiji) who has an uncanny knack for comedy. Tobio attempts to recruit Ryuhei to become a partner in a new comedy duo. Once on the outside, they start practicing ...

Before he hit it big, Takeshi Kitano got his start apprenticing with comedy legend Fukami of Asakusa. But as his star rises, his mentor's declines.

The film sheds light on the unprecedented history of Croatian cinema, which took place at the table of renowned Zagreb film critic and bohemian Vladimir Vukovic. This circle of film lovers, called Hitchcockers, brought together film directors, critics and theorists who would later become Croatian filmmakers.

Noriaki has been a ski jumper as long as he can remember and has no plans of retiring. In the world's biggest ski jumping hill, all his skills and experience will be tested.

Chandu(Sanjeev) is a happy go lucky youth who falls in love with a girl who ditches him and gets married to some one else. This is the same time when Anu(Chetana), who is the younger sister of Chandu’s ex, also falls in love with him. Upset by the games played by today’s generation girls, Chandu lays a challenge to Anu to get close to him physically to prove her true love. What will Anu do now? Will she go ahead and do the inevitable? To know these answers, you need to watch the film on the big screen.

In the form of a filmed epistolary conversation, two young, experienced filmmakers discuss film, present and past family, heritage and maternity. The personal and profound reflections—which are embodied in the graceful images taken day-to-day—are suddenly echoed by the political emergency of a country.

Juegos

Pressured by their peers, teen couple Raskal and Ole decide to have sex for the first time, resulting in a clearly unexpected pregnancy. These high schoolers tried to make it on their own with the support from a gang of misfits.

A documentary about the EAM Resistance during the Occupation in Athens ('41-'44). 14 narratives. 14 stories. A people against the Italian and German occupiers and their local collaborators. A documentary about collective memory.

This documentary offers an honest look at our fraught, complex relationship to video games from the perspectives of gamers and their concerned parents.

Des îles ensorcelées par la Lune

Officially declared missing in 1945, Gaston Boissac suddenly comes back at 70 years old in his home village.

An account of the creative exile of Mirentxu Loyarte, one of those brave, unknown pioneers of European cinema, examining her memory and work; the search for a cinematographic treasure made of flesh and bone…