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.
An intimate chronicle of the shooting of Ran (1985), a film directed by the legendary Japanese filmm...
KEN SAN pieces together the puzzle of the life and legacy of Japan's mythical acting icon, Ken Takak...
Film director and screenwriter Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017), who in the sixties was the great innovator...
A documentary on Teruo Ishii, the Japanese "King of Cult".
Because his style was similar to that of Yasujiro Ozu, who was already active at Shochiku, he moved ...
The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dia...
Legendary anime director Rintaro’s (Metropolis, X/1999, Galaxy Express 999) first new work in over a...
Keichi Tanaamis new animation work Red Shade (2021) is based on paintings that he had produced on th...
A documentary about Die Another Day.
A documentary that takes an exclusive look at "A Serbian Film", with never-before-seen footage of th...
A fascinating archaeological and scientific investigation on the world's best-selling book. When wa...
Inspired by New York City streetball, influential brand AND1 turned local legends on the court into ...
Years after serving time for betting on games he officiated, former NBA referee Tim Donaghy revisits...
The Australia II yacht crew looks back on the motivation, dedication and innovation that led to thei...
Summer is coming...and with it a deadly invasion. There's a killer on the loose, a deadly winged bea...
Herman Melville's epic ocean adventure "Moby Dick" is an American masterpiece. But was this stirring...
This documentary essay introduces a peculiar trio of men united by their passion for hunting. Each o...
This documentary chronicles the rise, fall, and rise again of the soft rock epitomized by artists su...
With his witty wordplay and wacky props, Leo Gallagher became one of the biggest comedy acts of the ...