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- DirectorRyû MurakamiStarsPeter FondaLeona HirotaKumi AochiIn this sci-fi parody, Peter Fonda's plays an alien who falls from the sky and is befriended by some Japanese people who help him stop an evil group out to get him.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsDavid BowieTom ContiRyuichi SakamotoDuring WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.
- DirectorMasanori HataStarsKyôko KoizumiDudley MooreChatranThe adventures of a young cat and a dog as they find themselves accidentally separated and each swept into a hazardous trek.
- DirectorHiroyuki YamagaStarsLeo MorimotoDavid ThomasMitsuki YayoiIn an alternative Earth, a young astronaut participates in a controversial fledgling space program.
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsJohn LoneJoan ChenPeter O'TooleBernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatisation of the life story of China's last emperor, Pu Yi.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsNatasha RichardsonFaye DunawayAidan QuinnUnder a dystopian religious tyranny, most women cannot conceive children. Those young women who can live in a form of sexual slavery to provide children for influential families.
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsDebra WingerJohn MalkovichCampbell ScottAn American couple travel abroad to revitalize their relationship. But as the trip drags on, their attempt at recovering what they once had seems futile.
- DirectorMichael BlackwoodStarsYoko AshikawaAkiko MotofujiNario GodaAlthough Butoh is often viewed as Japan's equivalent of modern dance, in actuality it has little to do with the rational principles of modernism. Butoh is a theater of improvisation which places the personal experiences of the dancer on center-stage. The dancer is used as a medium to his or her inner life, but not for the portrayal of day to day existence. A Dionysian dance of nudity, eroticism, and sexuality, Butoh's scale of expression ranges from meditative tenderness to excessive grotesqueness. By reestablishing the ancient Japanese connection of dance, music, and masks, and by recalling the Buddhist death dances of rural Japan, Butoh incorporates much traditional theater. At the same time, it is a movement of resistance against the abandonment of traditional culture to a highly organized consumer-oriented society. An alliance of tradition and rebellion, Butoh is one of the most fascinating underground dance movements. "Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis" is a visually striking film portrait shot on location in Japan with the participation of the major Butoh choreographers and their companies.
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsVictoria AbrilMarisa ParedesMiguel BoséA singer returns after 15 years abroad to perform in Madrid and finds her 27 y.o. daughter married to one of her mom's ex-lovers.
- DirectorRyû MurakamiStarsMiho NikaidoYayoi KusamaSayoko AmanoA submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.
- DirectorPeter KosminskyStarsJuliette BinocheRalph FiennesJanet McTeerA man becomes obsessed with vengeance when his soul mate marries another man.
- CreatorBruce WagnerStarsJim BelushiDana DelanyRobert LoggiaA multi-national corporation attempts to take over America while small pockets of resistance hold out against rampant technology.
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsKeanu ReevesBridget FondaRuocheng YingAfter the death of Lama Dorje, Tibetan Buddhist monks find three children - one American and two Nepalese - who may be the rebirth of their great teacher.
- DirectorDonald CammellStarsChristopher WalkenJoan ChenSteven BauerWhile Bruno is an international money mover and influence peddler and Virginia is his very beautiful wife, his sexual appetite requires the services of banker and part-time hooker Alex. It's love at first sight. But, who are the lovers?
- DirectorJohn MayburyStarsDerek JacobiDaniel CraigTilda SwintonBiography of British painter Francis Bacon focuses on his relationship with his lover, George Dyer, a former small time crook.
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsNicolas CageGary SiniseJohn HeardA shady police detective finds himself in the middle of a murder conspiracy at an important boxing match in an Atlantic City casino.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsTakeshi KitanoRyûhei MatsudaShinji TakedaThe new member of a samurai militia unit causes disruption as several of his colleagues fall in love with him, threatening to disturb the rigid code of their squad.
- StarsMiki NakataniMia MuranoAtsuro WatabeWhen three 12-year-old victims of child abuse are introduced to each other at a mental hospital, they form a bond that proves to be unbroken by personal growth and adulthood. After saving Yuki, from drowning in the ocean, Ryohei and Shoichiro consider themselves her protector, a feeling that carries over into adulthood. When the three are reunited seventeen years after meeting at the mental hospital, they find that their feelings for each other are just as strong as before. Yuki now cares for others as a nurse, Shoichiro is a controlling lawyer, and Ryohei is a career police investigator. When a body surfaces in the local river, the three are drawn into a series of murders to which they all feel powerfully connected.
- DirectorSeiichi Motohashi180 kilometers down wind of Chernobyl, the village of Budische was evacuated except for 55 older residents who refused to leave and one young man, Alexei who wanted to stay with his parents. This is a simple story of life in Budische 14 years later, as told in voiceover by Alexei. The Belarus village is built around a common spring from which everyone draws water, toting it back to their homes, and to which the women walk to do their laundry outside.
- DirectorKirby DickAmy ZieringStarsJacques DerridaMarguerite DerridaRené MajorDocumentary about French philosopher (and author of deconstructionism) Jacques Derrida, who sparked fierce debate throughout American academia.
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsRebecca RomijnAntonio BanderasPeter CoyoteA woman tries to straighten out her life, even as her past as a con-woman comes back to haunt her.
- DirectorAlbertina CarriStarsAnalía CouceyroAlbertina CarriSantiago GiraltLos rubios focuses on the directors search for her dissappeared parents. Is it possible to get to the truth or they are only fictions, imaginary characters from everyone who rememebers them?
- DirectorSeiichi TanabeStarsNene ÔtsukaKentarô KobayashiMikako Ichikawa"Life Is Journey" is a compilation of four short stories. The characters all yearn to connect with others, while dwelling in their solitude. Accidental encounters and reluctant partings overlap joy and pain on a daily basis - yet no two days are alike. "Life" portrays half of a woman's life in a one-scene, one-cut, nine-minute sequence. "N" is a comical take on a man abandoned by his lover. "Ya" explores the bond of female friendship as one woman consoles a brokenhearted girlfriend. "Nowhere", a man and a woman roam the streets of a foreign land in search of lost time.
- DirectorShinji AramakiStarsAi KobayashiJûrôta KosugiYuki MatsuokaIn a utopian society created at the end of the third world war, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this community have planned for the rest of humankind?
- DirectorCarey McKenzieStarsEmlia BreenKarl GearyKohei
- DirectorJun IchikawaStarsIssei OgataRie MiyazawaShinohara TakahumiWhen technical illustrator Tony Takitani asks his wife to resist her all-consuming obsession for designer clothes, the consequences are tragic.
- DirectorShunsaku KawakeStarsYûya YagiraTakako TokiwaKatsumi TakahashiA Japanese boy is smitten and finally persuades his mother to give him permission to travel to northern Thailand in order to become an elephant trainer. He would be the first Japanese to become one should he succeed. He develops a bond with the giant creatures and soon enough is back in Japan where he does more for the animals. He also meets his girlfriend.
- DirectorShirin NeshatStarsOrsolya TóthBehrouz VossoughiShahrnoush ParsipourA young prostitute in Iran searches for a better life.
- DirectorFrançois GirardStarsMichael PittKeira KnightleyKoji YakushoThe story of a married silkworm merchant-turned-smuggler in 19th century France traveling to Japan for his town's supply of silkworms after a disease wipes out their African supply. During his stay in Japan, he becomes obsessed with the concubine of a local baron.
- DirectorBruno ZacaríasStarsRicardo BirnbaumMaría Hervás
- DirectorShirin NeshatShoja AzariStarsShabnam TolouiPegah FerydoniArita ShahrzadAgainst the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden, where they find independence, solace and companionship.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKoji YakushoMunetaka AokiNaoto TakenakaA tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.
- DirectorFumio Matsumoto'musescape' is a visual documentation of the collections and spaces of the University Museum, the University of Tokyo. Museum specimens of the animal, plant and mineral kingdoms and other cultural artifacts represent the wonder of existence by a variety of form, color, texture and their own history.
- DirectorAtsushi FunahashiA documentary chronicling the lives of Japanese refugees displaced by the 2011 tsunami and nuclear meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi.
- DirectorKensaku KakimotoStarsHitomi KurokiAugust 11, 2011, five months following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, memorials, prayers, and fireworks for recovery were held simultaneously along the Tohoku region coastline at ten locations to honor those lost in the disaster.
- DirectorEriko KitagawaStarsMiho NakayamaOsamu MukaiMirei KiritaniFreelance writer Aoi Teshigahara lives in Paris, France; photographer Sen Yagami came to Paris at his younger sister Suzume's insistence. Over the next three days, Aoi Teshigahara and Sen Yagami fall in love. Meanwhile, Suzume finally meets Kango, with whom she has been in a long-distance relationship for some time.
- DirectorPetr LomCorinne van EgeraatStarsSarah IbrahimNadine SalibWafaa SamirThis film is a cinematic poem about the inner world of four young creative Egyptian women.
- DirectorHamlet SarkissianDonatella Gomelsky-GuichardStarsWhitney Morgan CoxJustin LoyalTony Nevada22 veterans commit suicide everyday. That's almost one per hour. THE VETERAN HOUR explores three different hours in three different veteran's lives, where not giving up on love and compassion is the only way to give a chance to re-birth
- DirectorYôji YamadaStarsSayuri YoshinagaKazunari NinomiyaHaru KurokiA midwife in Nagasaki is stunned when she is suddenly visited by her son, whom she thought had died when an atomic bomb fell on the city.
- DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsLeonardo DiCaprioTom HardyWill PoulterA frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.
- DirectorShaka AginaStarsAlejandro RiveraAlejandro Rivera is transported into one of his re-occurring dreams, in which his everyday struggles and battles are brought to life. Across the dreams he must battle his past, his uncertain future, crippling loneliness and broken relationships in order rid himself of the nightmare that plagues his nights.
- DirectorBrock LabrenzStarsAntonio BarreraMatt LeonePeter LeoneAny Other Normal, written and directed by Brock Labrenz, is a film of prescribed encounters and private moments. This unconventional narrative focuses on two women, a traveling therapist and a theology professor, as they struggle through their respective lives.
- DirectorSang-il LeeStarsKen WatanabeMirai MoriyamaAoi MiyazakiA grisly unsolved murder links three seemingly unrelated stories in three different Japanese cities.
- DirectorRoger PulversStarsLisa OdaShinnosuke MitsushimaBrandon McClellandIt is the first week of April 1945. The Americans are bombarding Okinawa and have landed in their tens of thousands. But on a small island remote from the terrors of battle, 16-year-old Hiromi (Lisa Oda) comes upon a cave where American deserter Bob (Brandon McClelland) has appeared. Bob is taken in by Japanese deserter Takayasu (Shinnosuke Mitsushima). Hiromi decides to look after the two men, knowing that it is extremely dangerous. Soon after, Takayasu's elder brother Hajime (Takahiro Miura) appears in the cave. Hajime, a fanatic soldier, vows to kill his brother, his enemy Bob and the "traitor" Hiromi once he recovers from his wounds. Tensions mount to what appears to be an inevitable climax of violence and murder. - We now find ourselves in 2016 in Tokyo, where a female student, Shiho (Riho Yoshioka) is handed a diary written by Hiromi. But the diary leaves some questions unanswered. Shiho's curiosity leads her to the startling truth of what really happened to the three men in the cave - and the fate of the young girl, Hiromi.
- DirectorMujah Maraini MelehiTokyo 1943: Italian anthropologist Fosco Maraini and painter Topazia Alliata refused to sign allegiance to Mussolini's government. They were sent to a prison camp in Nagoya with their three daughters, Dacia, Yuki and Toni. Today: Toni's daughter Mujah explores her family's experience and legacy by bringing their memories to life as she makes her own journey to Japan.
- DirectorTadahiko SakoStarsMotoyo YamaneRen Ôsugi
- DirectorGrayson WhitehurstStarsJoseph HennessyA man reckons with his past following 99 days of an airborne epidemic.
- DirectorRafa Zubiría
- DirectorHiroshi WakamatsuStarsJelmer DaelmanMaiken VanoverbergheYou need me I need you He needs her She needs him We need you You need us Each One One Another Each other "Each One Another" is an experimental dance film, which shows our continuous necessity to keep seeking someone or something in order to survive. When you find it, you will believe it. The question is : Is that real? When it vanishes, our shadow stands alone. Even oneself is gone.
- DirectorFederico CasalStarsFederico AndreoliSantiago GonzalezMarcela RondoniA man with a fractured past wakes up in a dystopian reality.
- Directorvagabond BeaumontStarsAlexis FernandezKelvin FernandezZachary William HuberA fatally ill father and his daughter are post-apocaylptic refugees struggling to protect each other from the harsh realities of the world.
- DirectorHwang Dong-hyukStarsLee Byung-hunKim Yoon-seokPark Hae-ilIn 1636, King Injo hides in the mountains to avoid being part of the Qing dynasty.
- DirectorNevin Kelly-FairLuke MomoStarsVictoria AlevAlison DalafaveSami JumperA troubled priest is confronted with the weight of sin during a journey through inter-dimensional portals.
- DirectorAlex MillA gingerbread figure is wandering around in a murderous gingerbread city.
- DirectorDan JobsonThe ballad of Lamphead.
- DirectorEster Brym
- DirectorViktor Lysenko
- DirectorTsai Ming-liangStarsKang-sheng LeeTsai Ming-liangRadically rethinking the tired talking-heads template, Tsai Ming-liang's latest digital experiment turns the human face into a subject of dramatic intrigue. Comprised of a series of portrait shots of mostly anonymous individuals (Tsai devotees will no doubt recognize his long-time muse, Lee Kang-sheng), the film shrewdly deemphasizes language while reducing context to a bare minimum. In their place, the beauty and imperfections of each face take center stage. Accompanied by Ryuichi Sakamoto's soundtrack of dynamically modulating drone frequencies, Tsai's subjects variously speak, stare, and, at one point, sleep as the camera quietly registers the weight of personal history and accumulated experience writ beautifully across every last pore and crevasse.
- DirectorKôbun ShizunoStarsKaori IshiharaShin'ichirô MikiAoi YûkiTwo dinosaurs, differently unfit for life, a T-Rex who doesn't want to be a predator and a little pterodactyl who doesn't want to fly, begin a long and hard journey to reach a legendary valley called Paradise
- DirectorMina Cruz
- DirectorGiulio BoatoStarsOlivier BalzariniAlfred BirnbaumRichard CastelliAcross Europe and Japan, this film covers over three decades of Shiro Takatani's artistic journey through his installations, theatre and dance performances. Takatani and his collaborators (including composer Ryuichi Sakamoto) explain the driving principles behind his work where nature and people are observed through modern tools. Takatani uses technology to improve our understanding of our environment: enhancing infinitely small organisms, showing large scale galaxies, creating an interaction between performers / dancers with cameras and large screens. Carefully selected performances and installations - remarkably filmed - demonstrate the evolution of his work.
- DirectorLuca GuadagninoStarsJulianne MooreMarthe KellerKyle MacLachlanFrancesca, an Italian-American writer who lives in New York and must return to Rome to retrieve her aging mother.
- DirectorBenedict MirowStarsRichard SiegalDraw a Line accompanies Richard Siegal and Ballet of Difference during the rehearsals for On Body up to the celebrated world premiere. It shows how the diverse troupe blossoms into one of the best dance companies of today.
- DirectorYoshihiro HannoStarsSatoshi TsumabukiEtsushi ToyokawaNikki HsiehThree drifting souls meet by chance on an island in high summer and keep each other company. Facing their inner demons and a mysterious killer, can they truly redeem themselves through love and find the paradise in their hearts?
- DirectorEmma BalnavesStarsShandor RemeteManmath GharoteYogi NarinathOffering an experiential collage of action and stillness, light and darkness, sound and silence, AGNIYOGANA explores the richness of traditional Hatha Yoga teachings and the deeply connected states of heart, mind, and freedom these practices deliver to sincere truth seekers. AGNIYOGANA takes the viewer on a journey through time and space to rediscover the inner dimensions of Hatha Yoga and reconnect the human spirit to the true meaning of "yug," the connecting root of all yogas. The film begins with a visual and aural initiation. The journey inward then explores the key requirements of Hatha Yoga: FIRMNESS of mind; The importance of FAITH; The necessity of a qualified TEACHER; The benefits of MODERATION; The methods to RESTRAIN the senses; and The practice of universal EQUANIMITY. Throughout the film, the microcosm of the internal self in relation to the macrocosm of the elements, seasons, time of day, and other external forces of nature are examined. The narrative is woven together through commentary, wisdom, and insight from those who continue to uphold and live by the ancient ways of yoga. Throughout, AGNIYOGANA offers rarely seen glimpses of traditional Hatha Yoga practices as expressed by modern day yogins. AGNIYOGANA is a meditation. An offering for those who lower the head and invoke the fire.
- DirectorAlice WinocourStarsEva GreenZélie BoulantMatt DillonAn astronaut prepares for a one-year mission aboard the International Space Station.
- DirectorAndrew LevitasStarsAkiko IwaseKogarashi WakasugiJohnny DeppWar photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities.
- StarsYutaka MatsushigeGaku HamadaHikari IshidaA cat who dreams of reuniting with its owner and works as a housekeeper to save money.
- DirectorAnn HuiStarsSichun MaFeihong YuEddie PengThe film tells the story of a young girl who travels from Shanghai to Hong Kong in pursuit of education, but ends up working for her aunt seducing rich and powerful men.
- DirectorFerdinando Cito FilomarinoStarsJohn David WashingtonBoyd HolbrookVicky KriepsFollowing a tragic car accident in Greece, an American tourist finds himself at the center of a dangerous political conspiracy and on the run for his life.
- DirectorArtem DemenokStarsFriedrich-Werner Graf von der SchulenburgVyacheslav MolotovSergei EisensteinThe "Battle for Moscow" began 80 years ago in October. The Wehrmacht tried to take Moscow. The film tells the story of a fateful year - Moscow 1941, when the survival of the Soviet capital was on the knife's edge - when the war front approached ever more threatening. The film tells from a perspective from which the epochal drama has never been seen: a chorus of voices from Moscow, official and private statements recorded in letters, statements, but above all diary entries. They reflect everyday Moscow life in the last months of peace and in the first months of the war. Experiences, feelings, moods, hopes and expectations, worries, fears and fears. Diaries provide valuable historical evidence Private notes and letters in the Soviet Union were often destroyed by their authors or by family members. For fear of searches, arrests, confiscation or theft. Anyone who wrote made himself suspicious. The few diaries that have survived to this day are all the more valuable. Amazing historical and psychological evidence. A wealth of observations, thoughts and reflections, often of high narrative quality. What was it like in Moscow when preparations for the Barbarossa company were in full swing in Berlin? How did the city respond to the news of the German attack on June 22nd? And the days after that - with the enemy bombing raids and vague reports from the front? And how was it in the Soviet metropolis on October 16, when the situation at the front seemed hopeless and it was said: "Save yourself, who can"? Until finally, on November 7th, Stalin appeared before the people with a persistent speech. The Soviet counter-offensive began a month later.
- StarsNolan NorthRobbie DaymondAli HillisIn the distant future, human beings have been forced to leave earth and migrate to another galaxy. An advanced team of spacecraft arrives at a planet that is to be terraformed. Each member of the team is output by a biological 3D printer.