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Actors: Masayuki Shionoya, Mariko Takahashi, Shojiro Kataoka, Masao Komatsu, Simon Yotsuya
Synopsis: Japanese director Takushi Tsubokawa's blithe and occasionally spectral romantic drama Aria opens on the widowed piano tuner Ota, who battles grief over the loss of his wife with stone-faced solemnity and occasional flashes of rage. His late beloved, it seems, foretold her own death and insisted Read More
Actors: Haruhiko Kato, Kumiko Aso, Koyuki, Kurume Arisaka, Masatoshi Matsuo
Synopsis: As one of the most cutting-edge Japanese filmmakers, Kiyoshi Kurosawa once again wraps a lowbrow, much-maligned genre -- in this case horror flicks (which were the rage in Japan at the time of this release) -- around some decidedly highbrow philosophical concepts. At the film's outset, Michi (Kumiko Aso Read More
Actors: Ittoku Kishibe, Masayuki Shionoya
Synopsis: Noted filmmaker Jun Ichikawa directs this elegiac semi-documentary look at cancer and death. The film focuses on five terminal cancer patients, all of whom are being treated in the same hospital by the same doctor (Ittoku Kishibe). Filmed with a fractured, episodic structure, Byoin quietly Read More
Actors: Misa Shimizu, Takehiro Murata
Synopsis: Takehiro Nakajima directs this romantic drama about a love triangle between two men and a young woman. The film centers on Sayoko (Misa Shimizu of Unagi fame) who works as a voice-over artist for television cartoons. One day she happens upon a lithe young man and his middle-aged lover in mid-kiss. Read More
Synopsis: American parents would be glad if their children's desire to join rock and roll bands could have the kind of outcome the boys in So What opt for. Even though they really enjoy their band, these boys are so concerned about their schoolwork that they have a difficult time allotting any time to Read More
Actors: Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Yasosuke Bando, Hiroshi Mikami, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Junya Fukuda, Shigeto Tachihara
Synopsis: In Paul Schrader's unusual biopic, Ken Ogata stars as Yukio Mishima, perhaps the most celebrated Japanese novelist of the last five decades. The film begins with Mishima's youth, then moves forward in episodic fashion to his 1970 suicide, symbolically committed at a military site. Originally Read More
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