Direction: Katsu Kanai

Direction Katsu Kanai

Cast Hiroshi Akiyama · Motohiko Hagino · Y oshitaka Hida · Yasuaki Hosoi

Plot The Kingdom” is the third film in Kanai Katsu’s avant-garde Smiling Milky Way Trilogy which began with two politically loaded films, 1968’s “The Deserted Archipelago”, a dream journey through the...

Direction Katsu Kanai

Cast Kazuko Aoki · Jun Arai · Ayuko Asakawa` · Ben Hiura

Plot A young man brought up in a nunnery escapes from the abusive nuns into the disconcerting outside world.

Direction Katsu Kanai

Cast Katsumaru Bongyoji · Dômon Kumo · Katsunori Makabe · Yasuko Matsui

Plot An aphasic young boy living in South Korea meets, on one of his regular paths, a “Koguryo Beauty” who shows him how to trace his heritage

Direction Katsu Kanai

Cast Karuko Aiyama · Motoharu Jônouchi · Katsu Kanai · Kurenai Kanda

Plot The Stormy Times is a collection of three short films created as a series of visual poems (Dream Running, Grasshopper’s One-Game Match, andWe Can Hear Joe’s Poem). Katsu Kanai screened...