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Ishirô Honda – Gojira AKA Godzilla (1954)
Quote: One of the longest-running series in film history began with Ishiro Honda’s grim, black-and-white allegory for the devastation wrought on Japan by the atomic bomb. As his visual metaphor, Honda...
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Akira Kurosawa – Dodesukaden [+Extras] (1970)
Quote: By turns tragic and transcendent, Akira Kurosawa’s film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their...
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Tomu Uchida – Kiga kaikyo aka The Straight of Hunger (1965)
Quote: A very complete article about Tomu Uchida : Here some words coming from it and about this particular film : “Straits of Hunger is a definite attempt on his part to essay the modernist style and...
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Noboru Tanaka – Mesunekotachi no yoru AKA Night of the felines (1972)
Plot Bathhouse prostitute Masako and her street-whore friend Jun are pawn for their Yakuza Pimps. These girls have lost control over their own existence, passed from one client to the next…...
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Masahiro Shinoda – Himiko (1974) (HD)
Quote: An imagined life of the prehistoric Japanese Queen Himiko, based loosely on a few mentions in Chinese chronicles. Himiko is presented as the head priestess of the Sun Goddess cult and a spirit...
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Sang-soo Hong – Ok-hui-ui yeonghwa AKA Oki’s Movie (2010)
Synopsis “NYFF” wrote: NYFF perennial Hong Sang-soo’s latest may be his wittiest—and his most deeply felt—work to date. Toggling between the present and the past, reality and fiction, and divided into...
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Hitoshi Yazaki – Sangatsu no raion aka March Comes in Like a Lion (1991)
TimeOut London: March Comes in Like a Lion Review Or, perhaps, love among the ruins. In present-day Tokyo, a waste land of tenements prey to decrepitude and demolition, ‘Ice’ (Yura) decides to collect...
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Prasanna Vithanage – Ira Madiyama (2003)
Based on true incidents, this film revolves around three sories that unfold simultaneously. During two scorching August days, three different groups of people – thrown into the heat of the war – face...
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Shuji Terayama – Den-en ni shisu aka Pastoral : To Die in the Country aka...
Quote: Terayama’s second feature recapitulates some of the main themes of Throw Away Your Books in more directly personal terms: it’s a film about a film-maker’s re-examination (and attempted...
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Stanley Kwan – Yin ji kau aka Rouge (1987)
Plot Synopsis Hong Kong filmmaker Stanley Kwan directs this stunning supernatural melodrama about a passion, romance, and lost history. Fleur (Anita Mui) is a 1930s high-class courtesan who finds...
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul – Sud pralad AKA Tropical Malady (2004)
Plot — The story of a blossoming romance between a soldier and a country boy, crossed with a Thai folk legend about a shaman with shapeshifting abilities. Review — Love is the drug, a game for two...
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Pil-Sung Yim – Hansel & Gretel (2007)
A reckless youngster Eun-soo drives to his mother’s and has a car accident. When Eun-soo wakes up, he meets a mysterious girl and is led to her fairytale-like house in the middle of the forest. There,...
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Ming-liang Tsai – Wu Wu Mian AKA No No Sleep (2015)
No No Sleep’ sees Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang revisiting Lee Kang Sheng’s walking monk, this time in Tokyo. But rather than spend all his time on the city streets, Tsai eventually transplants...
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Kon Ichikawa – Shokei no heya AKA Punishment Room (1956)
Kon Ichikawa’s study of gang-related violence among the youth, ‘Punishment Room’, is a brutal and nihilistic work utterly barren of hope! Yes, just the way I like a movie to be. ‘Punishment Room’ is...
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Nobuhiro Yamashita – Linda Linda Linda (2005)
Story: A music group of girls need to learn to play a song before the school festival. Quote: What distinguishes Nobuhiro Yamashita’s Linda Linda Linda from the crowd is a refreshing modesty. Rather...
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Stanley Kwan – Hong meigui, bai meigui aka Red Rose, White Rose (1994)
Plot Synopsis This sensitive Asian melodrama chronicles the two major loves in the life of a man who cannot change. The story is divided into two parts; each part focused upon one woman. The story...
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Tomu Uchida – Kiga kaikyo aka The Straight of Hunger (1965)
IMDb user chaosrampant wrote: We’re beating a dead horse if we begin to lament another lost treasure, another overlooked Japanese director who’s yet to receive his dues. Uchida will have to queue up...
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Chinlin Hsieh – Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema (2014)
Synopsis In 1982 a small group of Taiwanese filmmakers reinvented Asian cinema, among them, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Edward Yang. Travelling from Europe to Latin America to Asia, Flowers of Taipei sets out to...
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Masaki Kobayashi – Seppuku aka Harakiri (1962)
An elder ronin samurai arrives at a feudal lord’s home and requests an honorable place to commit suicide. But when the ronin inquires about a younger samurai who arrived before him things take an...
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Edward Yang – Du li shi dai AKA A Confucian Confusion (1994)
Nominated for the Golden Palm in Cannes 1994. Quote: I’ve just seen a marvelous film. Edward Yang’s little-seen and under-distributed A Confucian Confusion is that screwball comedy I long to see that...
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