Film Highlights
funeral-parade-of-roses
Shining a light on the gay subcultures of the 1960s Tokyo underground, Toshio Matsumoto’s pop-art masterpiece puts queer experience front and centre.
Featuring: Peter, Osamu Ogasawara, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Emiko Azuma
A feverish collision of avant-garde aesthetics and grind-house shocks (not to mention a...
05mm
Momoko Ando’s 0.5mm is a meditation on the generation gap as it pertains to Japanese culture.
Featuring: Sakura Andô, Miyoko Asada
Sawa Yamagishi worked as a nursing-care helper. The family of an old man asked Sawa to sleep with him, which led her to eventually lose her job and house. Now, she has nowhere to go. Sawa...
an-actors-revenge
An Actor’s Revenge is an eye-popping examination of how the illusions of art intersect with life.
Featuring: Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto
While performing in a touring kabuki troupe, a leading female impersonator comes across the three men who drove his parents to suicide twenty years earlier, and plans his...
godzilla
American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable, dinosaur-like beast.
Featuring: Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada
When seventeen vessels blow-up and sink nearby Odo Island, Professor Kyohei Yamane, his daughter Emiko Yamane and the marine Hideto Ogata head to the island...
drive-my-car
Nishijima Hidetoshi is a stage actor and director happily married to his playwright wife. Then one day she disappears.
Featuring: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tôko Miura, Reika Kirishima
A director's wife was a playwright, but she died two years ago. When he's invited to direct a play at a festival in Hiroshima, the...
our-little-sister
A story that revolves around three sisters who live in their grandmother's home and the arrival of their thirteen-year-old half sister.
Featuring: Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho, Suzu Hirose
Three adult sisters learn of their estranged father's death and decide to travel to...
dear-pyongyang
By visiting North Korea many times, a woman of Korean-Japanese descent tries to understand her father's loyalty to the country.
Featuring: Yang Yong-Hi
The daughter of a leader of the pro-North Korean movement in Japan, Yang Yong-hi was separated from her brothers at a young age under a North...
seven-samurai
Farmers hire a band of samurai to defend them against marauding bandits in Kurosawa’s influential epic, a touchstone for action movies ever since.
Featuring: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Seiji Miyaguchi
Strongly influenced by the poetic westerns of John Ford, Kurosawa’s story of farmers...