Eros + Massacre

Eros + Massacre 1969

7.50

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers on two 1960s students researching Osugi's theories.

1969

A Story Written with Water

A Story Written with Water 1965

6.50

Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the love to his mother.

1965

Affair in the Snow

Affair in the Snow 1968

7.00

In an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her volatile lover and her ex-boyfriend, for whom she had platonic feelings.

1968

Coup d'Etat

Coup d'Etat 1973

6.60

A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.

1973

The Affair

The Affair 1967

6.60

As a young woman, Oriko condemned her widowed mother for openly pursuing relationships with younger men. After her mother passes away, she finds herself in an unhappy, loveless marriage and begins to understand her mother’s actions.

1967

Heroic Purgatory

Heroic Purgatory 1970

6.87

Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man, pretending to be the father, comes to get her back; Ayu keeps telling him that Rikiya and Nanako are her parents. Through this disruption, Rikiya suddenly starts remembering his youth as a revolutionary.

1970

Woman of the Lake

Woman of the Lake 1966

7.00

A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.

1966

Farewell to the Summer Light

Farewell to the Summer Light 1968

7.00

A spontaneous romance blooms between Kawamura, a professor touring Europe, and Naoko, a married woman living in Paris, scarred by the Nagasaki atomic bombings. The two protagonists travel around Europe trying to find themselves.

1968

Confessions Among Actresses

Confessions Among Actresses 1971

6.10

In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid bare, and scenes from their lives are woven in and out of interviews with each of them. Each of them has experienced a traumatic event which contributes to their particular enjoyment of becoming someone else in dramatic roles.

1971

Impasse

Impasse 1967

6.40

Shingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko wants to know who is the true father of Takashi, born by artificial insemination.

1967

Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema

Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema 1995

1

A documentary about cinematographer Gabriel Veyre's adventures introducing cinema to Japan and South America. Veyre was a traveling cameraman for the Lumiere Co. He declared cinema dead only 2 years after it's inception after he saw a villager jerk a woman's head to face the camera when he was filming a small group of them.

1995