Woman in the Dunes
A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village...
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A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
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A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of...
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Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí (1852-1926) designed some of the world's most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks; Japanese director...
See moreBasara: The Princess Goh
Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to commit...
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Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi...
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A documentary about the life and art of wood-block artist Katsushika Hokusai.
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A day in the life of Ako, a 16-year-old Japanese girl, and her friends and co-workers. An alarm clock wakes her in a dorm; she gets ready for work...
See moreTokyo 1958
Eight filmmakers collaborate with Teshigahara to create a "frantic, non-stop pop newsreel". Mixing cutout animation with color and black & white...
See moreThe Man Without a Map
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...
See moreThat Tender Age
A film in four episodes presenting teenage girls chosen as representative of their country and our time, in Italy, France, Japan and Canada. In...
See moreThe World Is Terrified: The Reality of the “Ash of Death”
At a time when the USSR and the USA fervently vied to develop nuclear arms, the mass media buzzed with terms inspired by nuclear testing on Bikini...
See moreJose Torres
A documentary about the eponymous Puerto Rican boxer
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The history and art of ikebana, a centuries old Japanese art of flower arrangement and a look inside the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, where the...
See moreIt Is Good to Live
A documentary about the survivors of attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
See more240 Hours in One Day
The final collaboration between Hiroshi Teshigahara and Kobo Abe, 240 Hours in a Day is a four-panel projection produced for the 1970 Osaka Expo...
See moreSummer Soldiers
The plight of U.S. Army deserters from Vietnam on the run in Japan, centering on the culture clash between the troubled Americans and the Japanese...
See moreJose Torres II
This is the sequel to Jose Torres (1959), the portrayal of Puerto Rican boxer Jose Torres, who won a silver medal in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics...
See moreRecord of Bloodshed: Sunagawa
On October 12, 1956, 53 surveyors and 1,300 armed police rushed the gathered union and Zen Gaku Ren (the All Japan Federation of Self-Governing...
See moreWheat Will Never Fall
Follow-up to 'The People of Sunagawa'
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