Hideko Yoshida

ダンボールハウスガール

Masako Matsuura

Kintarô Hara, Kirin Kiki

The story of a woman who lost everything.

By Player

Kaneto Shindō

Naoto Takenaka, Keiko Oginome

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is addressing Tonoyama himself, recollecting events in his life. The film focuses on Tonoyama's alcohol dependence and his various sexual relationships, as well as his film work with Shindo.

生きたい

Kaneto Shindō

Rentaro Mikuni, Shinobu Ōtake

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for the abandonment of the original. The film won the Golden St. George and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.

Neo Tokyo

Rintaro, Katsuhiro Otomo

Banjou Ginga, Masane Tsukayama

A trilogy of separate stories. In "Labyrinth labyrinthos", a girl and her cat enter a strange world. In "Running Man", a racer takes on the ultimate opponent. In "Construction Cancellation Order", a man must shut down worker robots.

わが闘争

Noboru Nakamura

Yoshiko Sakuma, Masakazu Kuwayama

39 刑法第三十九条

Yoshimitsu Morita

Kyoka Suzuki, Shinichi Tsutsumi

The psychiatric evaluation of a young actor arrested for a brutal double murder concludes he may be unfit for trial. Further investigation, however, reveals the crime was a well-planned statement against the section of Japan's criminal code granting diminished responsibility to the mentally impaired.

子ぎつねヘレン

Keita Kono

Takao Osawa, Yasuko Matsuyuki

A young boy named Taichi Ogawara finds a fox cub on the side of the road and takes it home as a pet. He discovers it is blind, deaf, and mute. Because of this, he names it Helen, after Helen Keller.

快盗ルビイ

Makoto Wada

Kyoko Koizumi, Хироюки Санада

Toru Hayashi is an unremarkable bachelor who lives with his mother, until one day a young woman named Rumi moves in in the apartment upstairs. Rumi is a self-proclaimed master thief, but she needs socially awkward Toru's help to actually kickstart her so-called career.

社葬

Toshio Masuda

Ken Ogata, Yukiyo Toake

A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.

東京原発

Gen Yamakawa

Koji Yakusho, Yasunori Danta

Panic occurs when the Governor of Tokyo proposes to attract a nuclear power plant to Tokyo.

Yokubô

Tetsuo Shinohara

Yuka Itaya, Saki Takaoka

Yokubo from director Tetsuo Shinohara is based off of the award-winning love story by Mariko Koike. A young man searching for physical comfort and dumb lust, and the world-weary woman drowning in a sea of men that works with him. This is a fantastic new film from a remarkably skilled cast about "the beauty of sensualism."

燃えつきた地図

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Shintarō Katsu, Etsuko Ichihara

A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man for whom he is searching.

ロボコン

Tomoyuki Furumaya

Masami Nagasawa, Shun Oguri

Satomi is aimlessly attending a vocational school and becomes a member of the robot club by chance. There are two robot clubs at her school. The first club's members are handpicked elite and have regularly participated in the robot contest. The other one, which Satomi belongs to, is full of hacks and the club is about to close down. The second club participates in a local contest, but can't even pass the first stage. However, their unique idea is praised and they are invited to attend the National Robot Contest. Satomi, who hates losing, burns with passion for the contest in order not to be disgraced in public.

The Pillow Book

Peter Greenaway

Vivian Wu, Yoshi Oida

A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.

日本春歌考

Nagisa Ōshima

Ichiro Araki, Juzo Itami

Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking songs. This encounter sets them on a less than academic path.

天国の本屋～恋火

Tetsuo Shinohara

Yūko Takeuchi, Tetsuji Tamayama

Kenta, a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar, when he meets a man in a Hawaiian shirt named Yamaki. He invites Kenta to work with him, and the next thing he knows, Kenta wakes up to find himself in a room he has never been in before. It is a strange room that seems to have no connection to life. He descends a staircase to find many shelves of books.