, 2h9 Directed byChen Kaige OriginChine GenresDrama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure ActorsKitty Zhang Yuqi, Shota Sometani, Hiroshi Abe, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shōhei Hino, Mason Lee Rating61% Sous la dynastie Tang (618–907), un démon-chat apparaît et sème le trouble dans la ville de Chang'an , provoquant une série d’événements étranges (les hommes de pouvoir meurent tous les uns après les autres). Le poète chinois Bai Letian et le moine bouddhiste japonais Kūkai s'allient alors pour enquêter sur la mort de la Concubine Yang, suivant la piste laissée par le démon et révélant un secret jusqu'ici bien gardé.
, 2h Directed byMipo O OriginJapon GenresDrama ActorsGo Ayano, Chizuru Ikewaki, Masaki Suda, Shōhei Hino, Kazuya Takahashi Roles Tatsuo's boss Rating65% In a Japanese port town, Tatsuo Sato (Go Ayano), a traumatized man, spends his days drifting aimlessly and his nights drinking himself to oblivion. Whiling his hours away at a pachinko parlor, he meets Takuji Ohshiro (Masaki Suda), a young man on parole who impulsively invites him to a shabby house on the outskirts of town. There, Tatsuo glimpses Takuji’s bedridden father and callous mother, and meets his world-weary older sister Chinatsu Ohshiro (Chizuru Ikewaki). While immediately drawn to each other, romance is an unaffordable luxury for the emotionally closed-off Tatsuo and the disillusioned Chinatsu, who sells herself to provide for her family and keep her brother out of jail. As Tatsuo and Chinatsu take tentative steps towards a relationship, the happy-go-lucky Takuji latches onto Tatsuo, binding their fates. Each step they take to build a better life sets off a chain of actions that have devastating consequences.
, 1h38 Directed byPeter Webber OriginUSA GenresDrama, War, Historical ThemesSeafaring films, Transport films, Political films ActorsMatthew Fox, Tommy Lee Jones, Eriko Hatsune, Kaori Momoi, Toshiyuki Nishida, Masatoshi Nakamura Roles Hideki Tojo Rating64% Brigadier-General Bonner Fellers is sent to Japan as a part of the occupation force. He is tasked with arresting Japanese war criminals, including Prime Minister Tojo. Before he departs, he meets his Japanese interpreter, Takahashi. Fellers privately orders him to locate his Japanese girlfriend, Aya Shimada. After managing to arrest Tojo after his attempted suicide, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur informs Fellers that Emperor Hirohito can be tried as a war criminal. By doing so, the Allied forces would enrage the Japanese and they would face open revolt; but by deposing the Emperor, the Soviets would enter Japan and spread communism. However, the American people want the Emperor to stand trial for Japan's actions during the war. MacArthur gives Fellers ten days to investigate the Emperor. The next day, Takahashi informs Fellers that Aya's apartment in Tokyo was bombed. Fellers orders him to investigate her hometown, Shizuoka.
, 2h31 Directed byShōhei Imamura OriginJapon GenresDrama ThemesSeafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films ActorsKaori Momoi, Ken Ogata, Shigeru Izumiya, Yūko Tanaka, Mitsuko Baishō, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi Roles Magoshichi Rating67% The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ee ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminates in a revelrous march on the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society.
, 2h20 Directed byShōhei Imamura, Taku Shinjō OriginJapon GenresDrama, Crime ThemesSerial killer films ActorsKen Ogata, Mayumi Ogawa, Rentarō Mikuni, Mitsuko Baishō, Taiji Tonoyama, Kazuko Shirakawa Roles Haru's Mahjong Friend Rating76% The film's story is told in a series of flashbacks. In the opening scenes, Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata), is a prisoner of the police. A huge crowd of journalists and an angry mob greets him as he enters a cell. The police quiz him but he refuses to answer. The story goes back to the initial murders. Enokizu tricks and then kills two men and steals a large sum of money. He puts on a suit and disappears. Enokizu travels to another city. At the train station, he asks a taxi driver to take him to an inn where he can get a prostitute. Enokizu is sexually insatiable. He tells the innkeeper, a woman called Haru (Mayumi Ogawa), that he is a professor at Kyoto University. The police, searching for Enokizu, put out bulletins with his face on television. The prostitute thinks the professor is Enokizu, but she is told not to go to the police because of her job.