Dir. Yasujiro Ozu, 1961, 103 min. The Kohayagawa family, proprietors of a small sake brewery, are struggling to keep their business afloat while their elderly patriarch, Manbei (Ganjiro Nakamura), gads about with a former girlfriend, much to his daughters' disapproval. … Continue reading →
Cyborg 009 Directed by Masayuki Akehi 1980, PG, 131 min. Community Partner: The Cyborg 009 series of manga, TV anime and feature films centres on nine humans who have been turned into superhuman Cyborgs by a criminal … Continue reading →
Mai Mai Miracle Directed by Sunao Katabuchi 2009, G, 95 min. Community Partner: Mai Mai Miracle is a nostalgic full-length animated film adaptation of the autobiographical novel of the same title by Akutagawa Prize winner, Takagi Nobuko. Set … Continue reading →
Dir. Jesper Wachtmeister 2006, 53 min. KOCHUU is a visually stunning film about modern Japanese architecture, its roots in the Japanese tradition, and its impact on the Nordic building tradition. Winding its way through visions of the future and traditional … Continue reading →
The Dagger of Kamui Directed by Rintaro 1985, PG, 132 min. Community Partner: Set in pre-Meiji era Japan, this epic by anime master Rintaro (Metropolis, Galaxy Express 999) tells the life story of Jiro, a … Continue reading →
Akira Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo 1988, AA, 124 min. Community Partner: The year is 2019. Tokyo, now post-apocolyptic Neo-Tokyo, has been rebuilt after obliteration in WWIII. When a biker named Tetsuo is discovered to have mysterious telepathic … Continue reading →
Dir. Keisuke Kinoshita, 1954, 156 min. An elegant, emotional chronicle of a teacher’s unwavering commitment to her students, her profession, and her sense of morality. Set in a remote, rural island community and spanning decades of Japanese history, from 1928 … Continue reading →
Dir. Nobuhiro Yamashita, 2007, 118 min. Based on the popular manga Tennen Kokekko, A Gentle Breeze in the Village transports us to the world of a teenage girl growing up in a small country village. Soyo is the only eighth … Continue reading →
‘Til the Break of Dawn Dir. Yuichiro Hirakawa, 2012, 129 min. An urban legend tells of the existence of a human, the Connector, who has the ability to arrange meetings between the living and the dead. Hatada, a cynical middle-aged … Continue reading →
Kids Police Dir. Yuichi Fukuda, 2013, 100 min. The elite detectives of the Special Investigations Division (SID) of the Kanagawa Police Department have fallen into a trap set by notorious crime broker Red Venus and inhaled a special gas which … Continue reading →
