Kokkai e ikô!
A close look at the inner workings of Japan's political underbelly.
A close look at the inner workings of Japan's political underbelly.
Eisaku Yoshida
Ken Ogata
Masumi Miyazaki
Hideko Yoshida
Tatsuo Matsumura
Nobuo Kaneko
Hatsunori Hasegawa
Ippei Souda
Ken Mitsuishi
A close look at the inner workings of Japan's political underbelly.
Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.
While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy.
A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.
Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.
Bailey and Darla embark upon a misguided and mutually deceitful form of therapy, one in which they must drive across the country, re-enacting Darla's colorful history as a sex addict. As their true motivations for the road trip come to light, the unlikely pair force one another to confront their issues, discovering that there might actually be more to love than just sex.
Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.
A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
In this black comedy the lives of a timid small-time printer and his young wife are turned inside out by the arrival of a stranger who moves in and takes over their world. Set in a village-like outpost in the heart of Tokyo, this is a wry commentary on Japanese xenophobia. Kiki Sugino heads a spritely ensemble cast.