Cinematography: Tomohiko Tsuji

Direction Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Maki Sakai · Arata Iura · Akie Namiki · Gô Jibiki

Direction Tatsushi Ohmori

Cast Masami Nagasawa · Daiken Okudaira · Sho Gunji · Sadao Abe

Synopsis Shuhei’s erratic mother feels threatened when he starts to awaken to a world beyond her distorted control, sending the family hurtling towards tragedy.

Direction Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Shinobu Terajima · Shima Ohnishi · Keigo Kasuya · Emi Masuda

Synopsis If there is a filmmaker who always maintains a radical tone, that’s Koji Wakamatsu. Politically–take his politically active films, from the sixties– as well as formally. Wakamatsu settles into the Second World War, when a Japanese soldier returns home, having...

Direction Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Tasuku Emoto · Mansaku Fuwa · Ichirô Hariu · Juri Ihata

Synopsis Based on the true story of a 17-year-old boy in Okayama Prefecture, who in the winter of 2000 killed his mother with a baseball bat and fled to the north country on his mountain bike, pedaling for 17 days until...

Direction Kazuya Shiraishi

Cast Kisetsu Fujiwara · Ku Ijima · Arata Iura · Mugi Kadowaki

Synopsis Spring, 1969. The Japanese New Wave, represented on international screens mainly by the films of Nagisa Oshima, reaches new heights. 21-year-old Megumi Yoshizumi goes to Wakamatsu Production. The company makes films popular with young people. Pink film director Koji Wakamatsu...

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Masanobu Katsumura · Takako Tokiwa · Sôsuke Ikematsu · Takato Hosoyamada

Synopsis Sayoko has moved away from the city centre and into the suburbs. She gets her hair done at a beauty salon. When she replies to a courtesy follow-up e-mail from the stylist things take an unexpected turn involving her visiting...

Direction Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Arata Iura · Shinobu Terajima · Hideo Nakaizumi · Hanae Kan

Synopsis On November 25th 1970, a man committed ritual suicide inside the Tokyo headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Defence, leaving behind a legacy of masterpieces and a controversy that echoes to this day. The man was Yukio Mishima, one of...

Direction Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Arata Iura · Hitomi Katayama · Ryuushi Mizukami · Kiyohiko Shibukawa

Synopsis In this revenge drama that marks Koji Wakamatsu’s return to the screen, an ex-con’s plans for bloody retribution are complicated after he meets a young woman.

Direction Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Taro Yamamoto · Sosuke Takaoka · Tanroh Ishida · Shôta Sometani

Synopsis The Millennial Rapture is an adaptation of a Kenji Nakagami novel, “Sennen no yuraku” – translated as “A Thousand Years of Pleasure.” It’s a collection of stories about the live-hard-die-fast young men of the Burakumin – one of the main...

Direction Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Mika Itô · Shiro Sano · Mikio Ohsawa · Renji Ishibashi

Direction Kazuya Shiraishi

Cast Katsuya Kobayashi · Chika Uchida · Takaki Uda

Synopsis Mikio and his older brother Saneo, who is mentally handicapped, live together and have just buried their father. One day, Mikio hires a hooker named Marin for his brother. Marin is an underground singer who goes by the name Fala....