Kayoko Shiraishi
1941 (84 года)The Makioka Sisters
Kon Ichikawa
Keiko Kishi, Yoshiko Sakuma
This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between their activities and the seasonal variations in Japan.
The Makioka Sisters
天国の駅 HEAVEN STATION
Masanobu Deme
Sayuri Yoshinaga, Toshiyuki Nishida
From a true incident that happened in 1960s Japan. This drama is contemporary in setting but medieval in its characters and emotions as it focuses on a tangled web of murder and deceit encountered by a beautiful woman, Kayo (Sayuri Yoshinaga) after her abusive husband is murdered.
Station to Heaven
花筐
Nobuhiko Ōbayashi
Shunsuke Kubozuka, Shinnosuke Mitsushima
Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his aunt cares for his ailing cousin. Immersed in the seaside's nature and culture, Toshihiko soon befriends the town's other extraordinary adolescents as they all contend with the war's gravitational pull.
Hanagatami
悪魔の手毬唄
Kon Ichikawa
Kôji Ishizaka, Keiko Kishi
Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolved murder. Then some murders happen. Kindaichi must find out about the past in order to reveal who the murderer is.
Lullaby to Kill
Labyrinth of Cinema
Nobuhiko Ōbayashi
Takuro Atsuki, Takahito Hosoyamada
The only movie theater on the Onomichi seafront is about to close its doors. Its last night of screenings will be an all-night marathon of Japanese war films. When lightning strikes the theater, three young men in the audience find themselves thrown back in time into the world inside the screen.
Labyrinth of Cinema
魔界転生
Kinji Fukasaku
Shin'ichi Chiba, Kenji Sawada
After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Satan and receives the power to resurrect the dead to join him in a murderous rampage.
Samurai Reincarnation
Yamato
Jun'ya Satô
Takashi Sorimachi, Shido Nakamura
Directed by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, "Yamato" has a framing story set in the present day and uses flashbacks to tell the story of the crew of the World War II Japanese battleship Yamato. The film was never released in the United States, where reviewers who have seen it have compared the military epic to "Titanic" and "Saving Private Ryan."
Yamato
犬神の悪霊
Shunya Ito
Shin'ya Ohwada, Emiko Yamauchi
In a rural village with a poorly understood but long standing curse from the Dog God, outsiders from a major Tokyo mining corporation scouting for uranium destroy a small shrine and crush a dog under their jeep wheels. After one of the mining company employees marries the daughter of a prominent member of the village, the Dog God’s wrath boils over and people start to die. The village girl and mining company employee start a new life in Tokyo, but the Dog God possesses her and she is deemed mentally ill. The couple returns to the village to perform an exorcism, but it is unsuccessful. As the body count accumulates, the cause of and remedy for the curse becomes more opaque.
Curse
日本のこわい夜
Norio Tsuruta, Yoshihiro Nakamura
Kayoko Shiraishi, Shôzô Endô
Dark Tales of Japan is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Japanese film directors, which are told by a mysterious old lady in kimono on a late-night bus traveling on a long isolated mountain road.
Dark Tales of Japan
海猫 umineko
Yoshimitsu Morita
Misaki Ito, Koichi Sato
The shock of her fiance's sudden dissolution of their relationship causes university student, Miki, to lose her voice. While recuperating in a hospital in her hometown of Hakodate, she learns of the tragic life of her deceased mother, Kaoru, from her grandmother.
Umineko - Inseparable
