Isn't Anyone Alive? / 20126.33 voti

In a Japanese military hospital, a mysterious pandemic strikes and quickly kills seemingly at random. A group of unconnected individuals must come to terms with their own impending deaths, and the fragile absurdity of life.

“宗教２世”を生きる / 2023

The Living Koheiji / 1982

The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro; to get her, he would even kill Takuro.

Galaxy Express 999 - Il guerriero / 19797.01 voti

Lo special del 1979 è basato in particolare sugli episodi 12-13 della serie classica: la fermata del 999 su un misterioso pianeta fossilizzato. La storia dell’unico sopravvissuto ad una misteriosa e fantomatica nube dai poteri fossilizzanti viene a occupare una buona dose dello special, che dunque nella parte iniziale si concentra solo per brevi accenni sulla vicenda dell’incontro tra Maetel e Tochiro, la quale compare all’interno di un flashback, il resto dell'episodio descrive appunto lo scontro tra i protagonisti e il guerriero e svela il mistero del pianeta.

KIRAIGO - Town Where Ogres and Buddha Live / 2014

In Mushiu, Yokoshibahikari-machi Sanbu-gun, Chiba prefecture, a National Important Intangible Folk Property, Kiraigo, which is said to have begun in the early Kamakura era, still continues to be performed despite the risk of being lost. The camera follows the residents of Mushiu and how they are carrying on the tradition.

堺雅人 今を生きるネイティブアメリカンを訪ねて / 2010

Masato Sakai Visit Native Americans living today.

Living in a Rough Sea / 1958

The inhabitants of Cape Muroto in Kochi Prefecture depend on fishing for their living, but have no fishing port in their village and so use the port of Uraga in Kanagawa Prefecture as their main port. 22 crew members in a wooden boat of less than 100t fish for tuna in rough seas, 4,500 miles away from home near Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean, where hydrogen bomb experiments are being carried out. The film focuses on an 18-year-old trainee and his labors aboard the fishing boat for two months, precisely reflecting the fisherman’s daily life.

Living in a Corner: Director Sunao Katabuchi's Work / 2019

On October 28, 2019, director Sunao Katabuchi walks the red carpet of the Tokyo International Film Festival with the lead actress of "In This Corner of the World". About three years have passed since the release of the movie "In This Corner of the World" which started in November 2016. There were many stage greetings held all over Japan, participation in overseas film festivals, and animation production with thorough research and overwhelming commitment to the completion of "and Other Corners".

Futatsu No Sekai /

Futatsu No Sekai

What Are You Afraid Of? / 2015

A (her)story told through the very people involved in the women’s liberation movement beginning in Japan in the 1970s.

Life on Foreign Land: Burmese in Japan / 2013

To escape the oppressive military regime in Burma (Myanmar), Kyaw Kyaw Soe fled to Japan in 1991, leaving his wife behind in his motherland. He spends his days working in a restaurant to make a living and continuing his pro-democracy activities that were banned in Burma. Later, his wife is able to join him in Japan, and the two of them run a Burmese restaurant. Thus begins their new life together in exile. Living in Japan for more than 20 years, Kyaw Kyaw Soe is caught between the wish to be with his family in his own country and the desire to see democracy in his homeland.

I Am Here: We Are Together / 2020

This is a documentary about Japanese GID / GD / Transgender people and the problems they face in their daily life. In Japan, in 2004, the Gender Identity Disorders Special Cases Act was enacted, allowing people to change their legal sex if they met certain requirements. However, many of them still struggle to change their sex, as the requirements are very restrictive and difficult to meet.

Kyoto Yokai Map 1: A 900-Year-Old New Bride Living in Sagano / 1980

900 years ago, Kaori, a weaving woman living in Heian-kyo, married Shiro, a shrine carpenter, but Shiro did not come back while going to work, and Kaori kept waiting even though she had gray hair, and kept her youth by sucking the blood of a young man. Kaori, who turned into a yokai and continued to live until the present day, is still living by replacing her lovers one after another and sucking their blood.

疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳 〜生きる覚悟〜 / 2016

'The Ninagawa of the world', still ill. The 80-year-old's intense run to stay alive, even after falling ill!

Tanin no SEX de iki teru hitobito / 2013

室井慎次 生き続ける者 / 2024

Nagareru hoshi wa ikiteiru / 1949

Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara

Oretachi wa tetsuro ni ikiru / 1986

Documentary: the Doro-Chiba labor union strikes against the privatisation of Japan National Railways.

The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me / 1988

1988 film.

We Are Transgenders / 1998

Lulu Ogawa's fascinating 1998 video documentary depicts a wide cross-section of Japanese transgendered people, from drag queens to FTMs to intersex activists to male transvestites. They tell familiar stories of exclusion and abuse while growing up, discuss the need for safe spaces where they can express their complex identities, and reveal the cost of black-market hormones and the physical pain of sex-reassignment surgery.