Midori

Midori

After losing her parents, young flower selling Midori is put up by a fairground group. She is abused and forced to slavery, until the arrival of an...

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Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with...

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Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie

Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie

In a loose retelling of the Revolutionary Girl Utena TV series, Utena Tenjou arrives at Ohtori Academy, only to be immediately swept up in a series...

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Pastoral: To Die in the Country

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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Fruits of Passion

Fruits of Passion

A girl named O loves a rich, and much older man. She is subjected to a variety of humiliating experiences to prove her unconditional obedience to...

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Farewell to the Ark

Farewell to the Ark

A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among...

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Grass Labyrinth

Grass Labyrinth

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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Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

In a Japanese colony, children overthrow their parental guardians and attempt to form a new society. Their plan spirals out of control and they are...

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Boxer

Boxer

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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The Woman with Two Heads

The Woman with Two Heads

As a family goes on with their day, the shadows on their walls lead a completely different life.

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The Lemmings

The Lemmings

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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Young Person's Guide to Cinema

Young Person's Guide to Cinema

Originally made for the 100 Feet Film Festival hosted by Image Forum. However, to test the limits, Terayama Shūji willfully made use of 3...

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The Cage

The Cage

Finished shooting in 1962, the movie’s cast was almost the same as its crew. With a bunch of experimental symbols such as skinny human body, clock...

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Heaven and Hell

Heaven and Hell

A bus full of cult members gets stuck in snow. The cult has to stay in a mountain hotel. Strange things start to happen...

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An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man

An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man

Using bluescreen video techniques, Terayama playfully—and with a silent film theatricality—posits a series of postmodern vignettes featuring...

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La bourgeoise et le loubard

La bourgeoise et le loubard

Power

Power

An insight into the lecture "How to rule the others" given by Mr. Slobodan Cirkovic 'Roko', a well-known Yugoslav experimentalist on telepathy and...

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The Eraser

The Eraser

Visions of characters by the seaside from one's memory are erased by the filmmaker's hand.

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The Reading Machine

The Reading Machine

In this Borgesian satire on knowledge and technology, bibliophilic desire leads to the construction of a pedal-powered reading machine. Resembling...

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Directions to Servants

Directions to Servants

Stage performance by the Tenjo Sajiki troupe.

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