Connection
Farewell to the Ark is a film of genre Drama directed by Shūji Terayama with Tsutomu Yamazaki
Farewell to the Ark (1984)
If you like this film, let us know!
Add to a movie listFarewell to the Ark (Japanese: さらば箱舟, translit. Saraba hakobune) is a 1984 Japanese mystery film directed by Shūji Terayama. It was entered into the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.
Synopsis
Un jeune homme qui vit avec sa cousine est la risée des villageois parce que toutes relations sexuelles leur sont interdites. Par désespoir, il tue le chef du village, avant de sombrer dans la folie.Actors
Tsutomu Yamazaki
(Sutekichi Tokito)
Mayumi Ogawa
(Sue Tokito)
Yoshio Harada
(Daisaku Tokito)
Hideyo Amamoto
(Key maker)
Renji Ishibashi
(Yonetaro Tokito)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Farewell to the Ark
There are 88 films with the same actors, 5 films with the same director, 71797 with the same cinematographic genres (including 582 with exactly the same 3 genres than Farewell to the Ark), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Farewell to the Ark, you will probably like those similar films :
, 1h55Directed by Shūji Terayama
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Actors Yoshio Harada, Masumi Harukawa, Isao Kimura, Kaoru Yachigusa
Rating76%
Dans un décor onirique un enfant tombe amoureux de sa voisine et décide de partir de chez lui. Le film s'arrête et le spectateur découvre qu'il assiste à une projection. S'ensuit une réflexion sur le temps et la mémoire en un dialogue entre le réalisateur et son moi enfant.
Grass Labyrinth (1979)
, 50minutesDirected by Shūji Terayama
Origin France
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Actors Jūzō Itami, Hiroshi Mikami, Masaharu Satō
Rating72%
A surreal excursion into a young man's subconscious as he searches for the words to a tune that his mother may have sung to him as a child. The dreamlike images culminate in a scene of a girl's naked body covered with calligraphic characters.
, 2h17Directed by Shūji Terayama
Genres Drama, Musical
Actors Yukiko Kobayashi, Akihiro Miwa
Rating75%
Un adolescent angoissé s'occupe de sa famille dysfonctionnelle dans la rue. L'histoire est entrecoupée de différentes vignettes psychédéliques et énergiques.
Fruits of Passion (1981)
, 1h23Directed by Shūji Terayama
Origin France
Genres Drama, Erotic, Comedy, Pornographic
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, BDSM in films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Illiers, Arielle Dombasle, Hitomi Takahashi, Toshiya Fujita, Miyuki Ono
Rating54%
The lead characters of the Story of O and Retour à Roissy novels, Sir Stephen and O, are placed in southern China where Sir Stephen owns a casino. Sir Stephen places O in a Chinese brothel for "training" and O is then subjected to a variety of humiliating experiences to prove her unconditional obedience. A sub-plot concerns a coolie rebellion due to the resentment towards Europeans by the local population and a young man desperate to afford O's favors at the brothel.
Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1971)
, 29minutesDirected by Shūji Terayama
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, Films about sexuality, Films about pedophilia
Actors Jūzō Itami
Rating58%
A young boy is the emperor of a country in which children have overthrown the adults.
Ronin-gai (1990)
, 1h57Directed by Kazuo Kuroki
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Action, Historical
Actors Kanako Higuchi, Shintarō Katsu, Yoshio Harada, Kaoru Sugita, Hideyo Amamoto, Renji Ishibashi
Rating65%
À quelques enjambées d'Edo, dans une petite bourgade, une taverne tenue par un certain Tahei sert de repère aux prostituées, rōnin, marchands et à quelques paumés... Goemon, le sympathique protecteur de ces dames vit une vie paisible, entre alcool et petits duels. À ses côtés, Oshin, autoproclamée et reconnue comme étant la plus belle et la plus expérimentée des prostituées. Gonbei, un rōnin solitaire secrètement amoureux d'Oshin. Magozoemon, ex-samurai du Shogun, tente une reconversion dans la vente d'oiseaux avec sa jeune sœur Obun. Gennai, un rōnin fêtard et impétueux fait irruption dans leur vie... Une prostituée est retrouvée sauvagement assassinée... suit alors une vague de meurtres visant essentiellement ces femmes des rues. Tahei, témoin de l'un des crimes, est supprimé à son tour.
Kagero-za (1981)
, 2h19Directed by Seijun Suzuki
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Historical, Romance
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Ghost films
Actors Yūsaku Matsuda, Michiyo Okusu, Katsuo Nakamura, Yoshio Harada, Mariko Kaga, Ryūtarō Ōtomo
Rating68%
Au début de l'ère Showa en 1926, les relations complexes entre le dramaturge Matsuzaki, la très belle Shinako, son client Tamawaki, et Ine, qui prétend être la femme de Tamawaki, mais dont il apprend qu'elle vient de mourir.
, 2h18Directed by Isao Yukisada
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Takao Ōsawa, Mirai Moriyama, Kō Shibasaki, Masami Nagasawa, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Maki Horikita
Rating71%
In a neglected box in her Tokyo apartment, Ritsuko finds a teenage girl's audio diary on an old cassette. Her fiancee Saku spots her in a television report at Takamatsu Airport about an approaching typhoon; he realizes she has gone to their hometown in Shikoku and goes after her. At his family home, he discovers a box of audio cassettes. He listens to them while retracting his steps from his school life.
Azumi (2003)
, 2h8Directed by Ryūhei Kitamura
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films
Actors Aya Ueto, Shun Oguri, Yoshio Harada, Hiroki Narimiya, Aya Okamoto, Tak Sakaguchi
Rating67%
As in the manga, the old master Jiji is tasked by the Tokugawa shogunate to raise a band of assassins. Their task is to finish off Toyotomi Hideyoshi's three allies: Nagamasa Asano, Kiyomasa Kato and Masayuki Sanada, to prevent an outbreak of the new civil war.
, 1h45Directed by Shūsuke Kaneko
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La fin du monde, Kaiju films, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, La préhistoire, Transport films, Animaux préhistoriques, Films about insects, Films about dragons, Les fées, Giant monster films, Godzilla films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Disaster films
Actors Chiharu Niiyama, Masahiro Kobayashi, Ryudo Uzaki, Kaho Minami, Masahiro Kobayashi, Shirō Sano
Rating70%
During a meeting of the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) for the potential return of Godzilla, Admiral Taizo Tachibana briefs cadets about Godzilla's first attack. A nuclear submarine is reported missing, which is later found to have been destroyed by Godzilla. Tachibana's daughter, Yuri Tachibana films a docudrama with her crew at Mt. Myoko, where a mysterious earthquake randomly ensues. The odd earthquake returns later that night burying a biker gang and leaving one surviving trucker who witnesses the monster, Baragon.