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Cybele
Japanese Movie - 1969
A documentary of an avant-garde theatre performance, presents an orgiastic rite of sex, degradation, and bloody sacrifice, performed by Zero-Jigen. (Source: Letterboxd)
Suhadabi no Tame no 12-sho
Japanese Movie - 1967
A short film produced as a PR movie that explains the effects of ultraviolet rays on the skin and skin care in daily life.
Watashi wa Beret
Japanese Special - 1964, 1 episodes7.0
It's Me Here, Bellett is a promotional film for the automobile manufacturer Isuzu Motors directed by Nagisa Oshima. (Source: Letterboxd)
Nakasendo
Japanese Movie - 1963
An experimental film edited from footage of the Japanese countryside. (Letterboxd)
The Song of Stone
Japanese Movie - 19636.0
While extracting and polishing their blocks of stone, stonecutters used to say “the stone is coming to life”. This paradox provided Matsumoto with the best metaphor for what making a film is all about. In his opinion,…
Thursday
Japanese Movie - 1961
A young couple go on a picnic in the forest, where the woman reveals that she is pregnant. (Letterboxd)
Bowl
Japanese Movie - 1961
Overripe with psychosexual poetry and stark, oneiric rituals, Adachi's filmmaking debut, made while he was still an undergraduate, counts among the more resonant accomplishments of the now famous Nihon University Film…
Ohan
Japanese Special - 1958, 1 episodes
Kokichi got to know a geisha in the town, Okayo, and became intimate. His wife, Ohan, learns about it and evacuates her parents' home. Seven years later, Kokichi, who happened to meet Ohan in the city, learned he had…
Women’s College in the Village
Japanese Movie - 1957
A work covering a women's class made in a rural area of Shiga Prefecture. It depicts mothers trying to change their old rural life and consciousness through activities in the women's class.
Children Who Draw
Japanese Movie - 19565.0
Children Who Draw explores the delicate chemistry of school children interacting in an art class through a constant juxtaposition of observational black-and-white portraits of the young children with lyrical passages…
Children in the Classroom
Japanese Movie - 19546.0
A short documentary about the behavior of Japanese primary school students. Initially conceived as an instructional film on the discipline of troubled children, the Ministry of Education sponsored Children in the Classroom…
Ondol
Korean Movie - 1941
A documentary film produced by the Japanese Government-General of Joseon to introduce Korea’s traditional ondol, or heated floors, to Japan. It is valuable as it shows how people of the time lived as well as the buildings…
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi
Japanese Movie - 1932
~~ Adapted from the novel series "Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi" (鼠小僧次郎吉) by Osaragi Jiro (大佛次郎).
The Morning Sun Shines
Japanese Movie - 19297.0
The Morning Sun Shines is a fiction-documentary film by Kenji Mizoguchi and Seiichi Ina. The film is a combination of a drama about a reporter, and documentary footage about newspaper production. Only 25 minutes of footage…
Soteio
Japanese Movie - 19276.0
Mochizuki, who allows himself and others, to call him a master of rowing, was invited by the rowing club of University A as soon as he graduated from high school. Soon, he gets caught up in a fierce sporting fight between…
Sea Palace
Japanese Movie - 1927
Before Masaoka Kenzo became one of Japan’s main animation pioneers, he directed two live-action featurettes full of special effects, both considered lost. Until this abridged version of the children’s fairy tale…
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