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The film was originally released in Japan in VHS format on June 4, 1999 [1] [2] and later as a DVD on December 22, 2005. [3] Red Room was released in the US by Anthem Pictures on January 9, 2007. [4] In 2000, the film was followed by a sequel, titled Red Room 2.
Based on real events reported in Japanese newspapers in 1966 [1] Boy follows the title character, Toshio Omura, across Japan, as he is forced to participate in a dangerous scam to support his dysfunctional family. Toshio's father, Takeo Omura, is an abusive, lazy veteran, who forces his wife, the boy's stepmother, Takeko Tamiguchi, to feign ...
Nobody Knows (誰も知らない, Dare mo Shiranai) is a 2004 Japanese drama film based on the 1988 Sugamo child abandonment case. [2] The film is written, produced, directed and edited by Hirokazu Kore-eda, and it stars Yuya Yagira, Ayu Kitaura, and Hiei Kimura.
The film is a critique of the right-wing militarist nationalism that guided Japan's conduct in Asia during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. The film deals with various issues, such as war crimes, handicapped veterans, and spousal abuse. The film also deals with themes of sexual perversion and features graphic sex scenes.
After being beaten with his camera by a stranger whom he filmed, Masuoka cuts his finger on the broken lens and returns home. He discovers that F survives on blood when she licks his finger, and cuts himself to feed her further. Masuoka begins to care for her by providing animal carcasses, deciding to treat F more as a pet than a human.
In the early to mid-1930s, Japan's leftist movements declined under governmental suppression. [7] [8] [9] Film historian Tadao Sato marks the end of the tendency film genre with Sotoji Kimura's 1933 film Youth Across the River. [5] Already in 1931, Mizoguchi had distanced himself from the tendency film after the release of And Yet They Go On. [5]
The following is a list of works, both in film and other media, for which the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa made some documented creative contribution. This includes a complete list of films with which he was involved (including the films on which he worked as assistant director before becoming a full director), as well as his little-known contributions to theater, television and literature.
Madadayo (まあだだよ, Mādadayo, "Not yet") is a 1993 Japanese comedy-drama film. It is the thirtieth and final film to be completed by Akira Kurosawa.It was screened out of competition at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. [3]