Writes Imai, "As a photographer during the 1970s, my interest in capturing time led me to explore the video medium. After utilizing video in two or three works, I saw a similarity between videotape and an ancient scroll, in that they both capture a story of our time. I started using physical videotape as a metaphorical representation of time, rolling out the magnetic tape from right to left, representing a narrative from beginning to end."
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers ...
Kentaro is an unsocial 35-year-old who lives with his parents and has never dated a woman. When Kent...
A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...
Women getting onto a rickshaw.
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While on his journey through the countryside of Japan, Shingo encounters many people whose lives hav...
People from Saitama Prefecture are persecuted and, because of this, they hide the fact that they are...
30 years of the band, 30 years of Japanese rock. The story of passion toward the band and music.
A group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, in The Forest of Re...
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsess...
The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponso...
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are ...
Through the lives of professionals working at Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo, the film portrays how Tsu...
Iku (Nana Eikura) joined the Library Defense Force after a member from that team retrieved an import...
High school student Saya Toma lost her parents and younger brother in an airplane accident. Detect...