Cast: Haruomi Hosono

Direction Kazuyuki Izutsu · Lee Sang-il · Kazuki Omori · Yoichi Sai

Cast Tatsuya Fuji · Haruomi Hosono · Setchin Kawaya · Kirin Kiki

Direction Elizabeth Lennard

Cast Ryuichi Sakamoto · David Bowie · Takeshi Kitano · Tom Conti

Plot Documentary directed by French photographer Elizabeth Lennard featuring the Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto during the recording sessions of his 1984 album "Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia". Blending studio and street footage with...

Direction Go Takamine

Cast Kaoru Kobayashi · Jun Togawa · Haruomi Hosono · Shinzoku Ogimi

Plot The film is as laidback and idiosyncratic as its misfit characters. Instead of melodrama it strings its plot-lines on eccentric detail, part-invented folklore, psychedelic digressions and creative modifications to Okinawa's...

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Ken Takakura · Reiko Ohara · Tokiko Katô · Kunie Tanaka

Plot Eiji, also known as Choji, quits the shipyard to start Izakaya Choji (snack bar) with his wife Shigeko on the outskirts of Hakodate.

Direction Jô Odagiri

Cast Akira Emoto · Ririka Kawashima · Nijiro Murakami · Masatoshi Nagase

Plot Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowing a boat for the villagers all day long, he barely...