After the war, many filmmakers were expelled from the Japanese film industry due to the Toho Dispute and the Red Purge. Amid such circumstances, there were people who set up their own independent production companies and embarked on film production without relying on corporations. This documentary film focuses on the passionate "spirit of film" of directors such as Satsuo Yamamoto and Tadashi Imai, who, despite many hardships, produced a succession of masterpieces overflowing with humanism and rebellious spirit.

Because his style was similar to that of Yasujiro Ozu, who was already active at Shochiku, he moved ...

A documentary on Teruo Ishii, the Japanese "King of Cult".
A short documentary primarily focused on Nikkatsu's Roman Porno series.

This documentary follows the last days of actress KIKI Kirin, who passed away on September 15, 2018....

An intimate chronicle of the shooting of Ran (1985), a film directed by the legendary Japanese filmm...

Film director and screenwriter Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017), who in the sixties was the great innovator...

KEN SAN pieces together the puzzle of the life and legacy of Japan's mythical acting icon, Ken Takak...

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dia...
Keichi Tanaamis new animation work Red Shade (2021) is based on paintings that he had produced on th...

Legendary anime director Rintaro’s (Metropolis, X/1999, Galaxy Express 999) first new work in over a...

In the 1986 World Cup, Diego Maradona, the world's greatest football player, reached his apotheosis,...

Rain on a window pane, a fire truck, a tomcat with innumerable offspring: it is an intentionally uni...

The story of Pixar's early short films illuminates not only the evolution of the company but also th...
Every year, thousands of commercials are made that never reach our TV screens, deemed too shocking t...

This documentary study of the mechanisms that turn the gears of the tabloids is conducted by the uni...

Taking the form of a conversation between a young teacher at a French school in Moncton and her stud...

From the lower St. Lawrence, a picture of whale hunting that looks more like a round-up, with a corr...

Bermuda Triangle Exposed’ explores the most deadly and unexplained marine graveyard on Earth. It sp...

“Making Waves” takes viewers below the surface of the world’s largest freshwater ecosystem and into ...