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Before We Vanish (散歩する侵略者, Sanpo Suru Shinryakusha, transl. "Strolling Invaders") is a 2017 Japanese science fiction film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.It is based on a stage play by Tomohiro Maekawa's Ikiume Theatre Company and the novel adaptation written by Maekawa.
Two weeks after the launching of the film, more than one million people had gone to the theatres to watch the film. [3] Moreover, in its opening week the film entered the Japanese box office as number two and consequently stayed in the top ten for another five weeks.
Aikawa-san is a yakuza movie star, so people only think of him as a yakuza. In real life, he is the opposite. He is a total gentleman. So I wanted to show Japanese people that he is not like a yakuza at all." [1] The film was shot in two weeks, on what Kurosawa describes as a low budget (around $200,000 to $300,000 US dollars). [1]
The following month the film opened in Japan, where it went on to win the Academy Prize for Picture of the Year and become the year's highest-grossing domestic film. This success was topped in 2009, when it became the first Japanese production to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. [a]
) is a Japanese youth romance film written by Yōko Izumisawa, directed by Shōsuke Murakami, starring Haruna Kawaguchi and Kento Yamazaki. Based on the manga series of the same name, written and illustrated by Matcha Hazuki. [3] [4] It was released in Japan by Shochiku on February 18, 2017. [5]
Erleuchtung garantiert (Enlightenment Guaranteed) is a 1999 German film directed by Doris Dörrie about two brothers, Uwe (Uwe Ochsenknecht) and Gustav (Gustav-Peter Wöhler), who travel to Japan in order to find themselves. The two plan to retreat for a while at the Sōji-ji Monastery in Monzen, Ishikawa in the Noto Peninsula, well away from ...
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Koh and Miyoko talk on the telephone, and Miyoko invites Koh to visit her island in the Inland Sea, where she will soon be going home for the Obon Festival. Koh travels with his Kawasaki to Miyoko's island on a ferry, and he lets her try riding the motorbike by herself. At night, Koh and Miyoko go with Miyoko's father to the Bon dance in town ...