Pastoral: To Die in the Country
A director faces creative block while working on his latest film - a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.
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Akira is haunted by a "bouncing ball" song that he remembers his mother singing when he was a small child, and now on the verge of a sexually...
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In the midst of a match, a successful boxer - Hayato, has had enough of the sport. He lets himself get knocked, quits boxing, leaving his wife and...
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Three showgirls playfully mock the audience for attending a projection of an art film.
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A dreamlike portrayal of a hangover after a decadent party.
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This second version of the play follows Wan and Tsu, two apprentice cooks who, as they eavesdrop on their neighbors one day, are shocked by the...
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Visions of characters by the seaside from one's memory are erased by the filmmaker's hand.
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Stage performance by the Tenjo Sajiki troupe.
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An experimental short featuring people and nails.
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This is Shuji Terayama memorial performance of The Hunchback of Aomori from 1983 (featuring Akihiro Miwa). Terayama gathered dwarfs, circus freaks...
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The smallpox virus has created its own unique atmosphere in Terayama’s film where the skin of a bandaged adolescent and the surface of the filmic...
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The film depicts the fatal, forbidden love between Nadeko, who is bought by a shop selling her mother, and her son-in-law, Jisumaru.
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A “reading film” of delirious image and text, Les chants de Maldoror takes its title and inspiration from Comte de Lautréamont’s 1869...
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