Rentaro Mikuni

Will to Live

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for the abandonment of the original. The film won the Golden St. George and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.

NR

6.4

1999 Drama 119 min Spielen

0

Oishinbo

Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by the newspaper's owner, along with the young Yuko Kurita, to provide recipes for the "ultimate menu".

NR

0

1996 Drama 105 min Spielen

7.3

The Friends

A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a house surrounded by an overgrown garden. The boys form a bond with the recluse and set about weeding and replanting the garden.

NR

7.3

1994 Drama 113 min Spielen

5.5

Luminous Moss

A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before sharing stories of their own.

NR

5.5

1992 Drama 118 min Spielen

0

Free and Easy 4

Hama-chan and his wife are ecstatic about their long-awaited pregnancy. Meanwhile, Su-san's nephew joins Hama-chan's department at the company.

NR

0

1991 Comedy 106 min Spielen

7.8

My Sons

Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has always felt jealous of his college- educated brother, but ultimately wins both the girl and his father's acceptance and support in a touching and refreshing way.

NR

7.8

1991 Comedy 120 min Spielen

7.2

Rikyu

Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi becomes Japan's most powerful warlord, unifying the country. Rikyu, through the tea ceremony and floral arrangements, tempers his lord, helping Hideyoshi focus on a single flower or be in a simple room where the shape of a cup is of most importance. But other forces fuel Hideyoshi's ambitions: the Portuguese bring a globe and guns, and he believes he ...

NR

7.2

1989 Drama 135 min Spielen

6.9

Himiko

A freestyle, imagined telling of the life of shaman queen Himiko, who falls in love with her half-brother, making her powers weaken thus putting her position to risk.

NR

6.9

1974 Drama 100 min Spielen

6.3

Zatoichi at Large

Der blinde Masseur und meisterhafte Schwertkämpfer Zatôichi entdeckt eine ausgeraubte und schwerverletzte schwangere Frau. Zatôichi hilft, das Baby zur Welt zu bringen, ehe die Schwangere ihren Verletzungen erliegt. Er nimmt sich des Kindes an und sucht nach dessen Vater. Dabei findet er die Tante des armen Babys, die in die Prostitution gezwungen wurde, um die Schulden der verstorbenen Kindsmutter begleichen zu können. Zatôichi beschließt, die Frau vor ihrem Schicksal zu retten...

NR

6.3

1972 Abenteuer 90 min Spielen

7.6

Die tiefe Sehnsucht der Götter

Auf einer japanischen Insel fernab der Zivilisation soll eine Zuckerrohrfabrik entstehen, weshalb sich unter anderem der Ingenieur Kariya (Kazuo Kitamura) zusammen mit einigen Mitarbeitern dort aufhält. Die Südsee-Idylle auf dem Eiland trügt, denn einige der ansässigen Ureinwohner leben in inzestuösen Verhältnissen, was nach ihrem Glauben lediglich den Göttern erlaubt ist. Wegen des Aufeinandertreffens von Zivilisation und archaischer Wildnis kommt es schon bald zu gewaltigen Spannungen...

NR

7.6

1968 Drama 173 min Spielen

6.4

Zatoichi the Outlaw

When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.

NR

6.4

1967 Action 96 min Spielen

7.8

Kwaidan

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.

NR

7.8

1964 Drama 183 min Spielen

6.5

The Adulteress

When a married woman has an affair with a young musician, feudal Japanese law requires that both offenders pay with their lives. However, the woman's husband blames himself for his wife's straying and attempts to thwart the law demanding capital punishment.

NR

6.5

1958 Drama 95 min Spielen

7.9

The Burmese Harp

In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.

NR

7.9

1956 Drama 116 min Spielen

7.3

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.

NR

7.3

1954 Action 93 min Spielen

6.2

Wife

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is generally disagreeable. In turn, he alternately ignores her and treats her as a servant. Neither is particularly happy, not helped by their unsatisfactory lodgers. The husband is easily seduced by an ex-colleague, a widow with a small ...

NR

6.2

1953 Drama 96 min Spielen

6.6

Husband and Wife

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

NR

6.6

1953 Drama 87 min Spielen