Made in Japan, Last Room is both fiction and documentary. The occupants of the love-hotels and capsule-hotels tell their own intimate, dreamlike stories, interspersed with journeys through the archipelago's landscapes. Soon, these personal stories resonate with a collective history: that of Gunkanjima, the abandoned ghost island of Nagasaki, and then that of Japan as a whole.
By mid-1945, Hitler is dead and the war has ended in Europe. Halfway around the world, however, the ...
A journey into the unique, often bizarre, world of Japanese cat culture. Cat themed cafes, bars, tem...
La Garoupe, a beach in Antibes, in 1937. For one summer, the painter and photographer Man Ray films ...
May 10th, 1981. François Mitterrand is elected President of the Republic. The “soviet tanks” suppose...
The Mandrin Cave in the Rhône Valley is a fascinating excavation site. Archaeologist Ludovic Slimak ...
Steven Okazaki presents a deeply moving look at the painful legacy of the first -- and hopefully las...
A group of uniformed Japanese schoolchildren make their way to class. But what they will be taught w...
A documentary film depicting five intimate portraits of migrants who fled their country of origin to...
Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established hi...
In Japan, more than four million young people survive by taking on precarious jobs. They are called ...
Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) provides trained agents, arms and other assistance to t...
On August 5, 1928, after 2 hours and 32 minutes of racing, the 71st rooster wearing the bib entered ...
An anti-war exploration of the filmmaker's experience with recurring nightmares about a potential nu...
Kazuo Hara follows Ayumi Yasutomi, a transgender candidate, who is also a Tokyo University professor...
Actual footage by the United States Signal Corps of the landing and attack on Arawe Beach, Cape Glou...
Documentary about Japan's Unit 731 of World War II.
September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmac...
In David Grubin's NAPOLEON watch Napoleon's rise from obscurity to victories that made him a hero to...