Hamaguchi wrote and directed this film as a graduation project for the students at ENBU Seminar (film and theater school in Tokyo) when he taught there. It is a three-part film: The first part is a documentary-style production of a play; Then the actual full stage production of the play; and the epilogue. Poetry and written words play the central role in the movie.

After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are r...

A depressed wife and mother whose reality is starting to fracture into fantasy, drives her children ...
The production of Shakespeare's Hamlet with František Němec in the title role (premiered at the Smet...

In their songs, comedy and exuberant music, a travelling theatre company give a fiercely polemic acc...

The story of Oedipus' gradual discovery of his primal crime, killing his father and marrying his mot...

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. Howeve...

Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev’s A Month ...

Sofia, Don Saverio's sister, confesses to her brother that she was the victim of a fateful event: wh...

45 year old Don Valter is a traditional priest who still wears an old fashioned black tunic out of n...

A man thinks he is not the father of his presumed daughter.

Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella reluctantly attends Racine's trag...

In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the co...

When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an...

Two rival artists at Sivadas Swamigal's drama troupe compete in everything they do. While one of the...