uite by accident, a film director arrives in town a day early. With time to kill before his lecture, he stops by a restored palace and meets a fledgling artist. She’s never seen any of his films, but knows he’s famous. They talk, they go to her workshop to look at her paintings, and they have sushi and soju. More conversation follows, along with more drinks, and then an awkward get-together with friends where all sorts of secrets are revealed. All the while, they may or may not be falling for each other. Then, quite unexpectedly, we begin again, but now things appear somewhat different.
A sample of modern Taiwanese life. After firing a colleague, the head of a PR company begins to question her lifestyle and values.
A young man who's about to marry is torn between his fiancée and the love for his mother. His past, dreams and desires unfold simultaneously.
Both share the same plot without the murders. In "The inheritance", A rich business executive is dying and decides he wants to meet with his three illegitimate children before dying to see if they're worthy of including in his will. This sets up a mad scramble between his relatives and employees to see who can best finagle the situation to their advantage.
Previous film by the same director that instead of building the portrait of a Patriarch's testament, build a family story based on a Matriarch' s will.
A look a the lives of two sex workers in Tokyo: Rei, who works as an S&M dominatrix, and Ayumi, in the more straightforward profession of call girl.
A reticent, stiff and introverted office worker, Takafumi, joins a secret BDSM club to have dominatrices surprise him at random times. The club offers a wide variety of ways in which he is beaten and humiliated, the treatments are compulsory and unexpected as to time, place, manner and mistress.
Both are about strong and unconventional female leads!
In "The hidden Fortress", two peasants agree to escort a disgraced samurai general and a princess (Misa Uehara) across enemy lines.
In "The hidden Fortress", two peasants agree to escort a disgraced samurai general and a princess (Misa Uehara) across enemy lines.
Both are based on fiction by Shuhei Fujisawa.
A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai (Kimura) and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband's honor.
A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai (Kimura) and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband's honor.
Both are based on fictions by Shuhei Fujisawa.
As the feudal Japan era draws to a close, a widower samurai experiences difficulty balancing clan loyalties, 2 young daughters, an aged mother, and the sudden reappearance of his childhood sweetheart.
As the feudal Japan era draws to a close, a widower samurai experiences difficulty balancing clan loyalties, 2 young daughters, an aged mother, and the sudden reappearance of his childhood sweetheart.
Both are based on fictions by Shuhei Fujisawa.
A 19th Century samurai, held in low esteem due to an action by his late father, must resolve his history with a maid and with his close friend.
A 19th Century samurai, held in low esteem due to an action by his late father, must resolve his history with a maid and with his close friend.
Adaptation of Osamu Dazai novel "Pandora's box" (1945). Inspired by events from Dazai’s own life, the story centres around a young man at the end of the second world war who has been suffering from tuberculosis for some time but kept quiet about it expecting to die soon and remove the burden on his family. However, when the war finally ends Risuke inherits a new will to live and commits himself to a sanatorium to treat his lung condition. Whilst in the hospital he comes into contact with writers and poets as well as pretty nurses all the while proceeding with his plan to become a “new man” for this “new era”.
