Soundtrack: Joji Yuasa

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Cast Osamu Ogasawara · Shotari Akiyama · Kiyoshi Awazu · Emiko Azuma

Plot A gay son kills his mother and sleeps with his father in this Japanese version of the Oedipus legend.

Direction Jūzō Itami

Cast Tsutomu Yamazaki · Nobuko Miyamoto · Kin Sugai · Hideji Ôtaki

Plot The debut film from acclaimed Japanese director, Juzo Itami shows a very untraditional side to a very traditional ceremony. When Chizuko's (Nobuko Miyamoto) ornery father unexpectedly dies, the undertaking of...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Katsuo Nakamura · Mariko Kaga · Yumiko Nogawa · Masako Yagi

Plot Director Nagisa Oshima's film uses the "pink" genre to mask an allegory about the materialism of post-war Japan (the original title translates as "Indulgence"). Katsuo Nakamura stars as a man...

Direction Kihachirô Kawamoto

Plot A worker is fired from a factory for demanding a wage increase, while his mother, worn thin by poverty, is caught in her own spinning wheel and transformed into yarn....

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Plot A mesmerizing trip through the psychedelic vastness of space.

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Takeshi Kaga · Masato Furuoya · Jun Hamamura · Sen Hara

Plot The final entry in the Kosuke Kindaichi series of the late seventies.

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Plot Early experimental PR “cine-poem” by Toshio Matsumoto. Commissioned by Kansai Electricity, the film paints an abstract, near-wordless retelling of the development of power stations in Japan, through to the presumed...

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Cast Kinji Omino · Tamami Hojo

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Direction Jean-Pierre Gorin

Plot A probing look at a Samoan street gang in a closed community in Long Beach, California with its own rules, rituals, and language.

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Plot Experimental film by Toshio Matsumoto created for the 1970 world’s fair, Expo ’70 in Osaka. The film was made up of multiple projections onto the inside of the Textile Pavilion,...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Kiichi Nakai · Mayu Tsuruta · Riona Hazuki · Takaya Kamikawa

Plot As the great military commander Nobunaga Oda was consolidating his power across Japan, one of his actions was to wipe out a clan of assassins, killing every man, woman and...