Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of...

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Pulse

Pulse

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lurks some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and...

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Charisma

Charisma

A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for...

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Will to Live

Will to Live

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...

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Angel Dust

Angel Dust

A police psychologist suspects her former lover of serial murders on the Tokyo subway.

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Okoge

Okoge

A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.

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Dying at a Hospital

Dying at a Hospital

Filmed in a documentary style, six patients in six wards of different ages and circumstances await death at a hospital in Japan. The sterile and...

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End of the Night

End of the Night

Akira was raised in an assassin family. Everything seemed fine until he met a girl he once saw killed 10 years ago.

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Seicho Matsumoto Drama Special: Face

Seicho Matsumoto Drama Special: Face

Based on a short story by Seichi Matsumoto from 1956 and remake from the 1957 movie of the same name, the story is about an actor who has the...

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By Player

By Player

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...

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Passion

Passion

A man tries to mend his past by helping his best friend’s sister.

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The King of Minami 24

The King of Minami 24

Yamato (California)

Yamato (California)

Sakura is a moody teenage girl who lives close to the US military base in the city of Yamato, Japan. She is struggling everyday to become a rapper...

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The New Morning of Billy the Kid

The New Morning of Billy the Kid

All the protagonists move about in a Tokyo Bar that has an entire wall taken up with a black-and-white reproduction of a photo of Monument Valley...

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Kahanshin Shôkôgun

Kahanshin Shôkôgun

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Nouveau Riche

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Nouveau Riche

A duo get mixed up with a girl who finds a trunk load full of heroin.

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The Eternal Fountain

The Eternal Fountain

The Eternal Founntain was broadcast as the Saturday Drama Special on NHK. Laywer Akio Yamauchi takes over the court-appointed attorney for Yoji...

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SF Whipped Cream

SF Whipped Cream

In the year 2060, KEN, a 25-year-old young man raised by aliens living illegally on Earth, makes a living by selling dubious drugs, idolizing Carl...

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Aria

Aria

The piano tuner Ota is still in mourning for the loss of his beloved wife. He would like to go on, but he can’t find the beach where his wife...

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The Bloody Afternoon

The Bloody Afternoon

Anarchic parody of the crime genre set around a bank robbery.

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