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萎れかけた春のために

A lonely man cries, a lonely woman laughs. A young salaryman is fed up with the mundane but secure life he leads and goes AWOL from work. On a whim, he calls Noriko, a woman he once played with, and goes to take care of her in bed with a cold. Noriko is cheerful and innocent, and he begins to tell her about his daily frustrations and his dissatisfaction with society, which he has not even told his wife... Director Sugiura has put a lot of effort into creating appealing characters in this film. The film uses elaborate dialogue and UFO catchers to portray the sense of discomfort that most people today feel at one time or another, that even if they have no clear grievances, they will be taken in by society and become boring salarymen.

萎れかけた春のために

NR 1992
Theater Troupe

Folk theater is a representation of local culture in China — a reflection of its characteristics. Hu Jie filmed a mobile theater troupe's performance and as well their backstage drama. This is a Henan opera troupe; they perform in rural areas of Henan and Shandong. They contact village officials in advance, negotiate a price, and then come to perform. Such performances are welcomed by the villagers. The troupe is a closed small society. There is a strict hierarchical system inside: The protagonist of the troupe is usually invited from the state-run troupe to support the scene. These people eat delicious and spicy food, and the boss treats them indifferently. But child actors are like child labor in the troupe. Children are called apprentices, but are actually exploited and used like slaves. Children slowly grow into actors, and then find a partner in the troupe and get married. Women similarly are not treated well — they shine on the stage, but off-stage they're abused.

Theater Troupe

NR 1997
Ichido hashitai tonari no nyôbô

Michida Yazo is an ordinary office worker who has no interest in alcohol or gambling. His wife, Tomomi, is a nurse and prefers to work the well-paying night shifts, so the couple only have sex when Tomomi is tired after a night shift and Yazo has morning wood. One day, Mitsuki and her husband move in next door. However, soon after getting married, her husband, Motoharu, goes on a business trip overseas. Mitsuki has such poor taste that people say, "Your body is delicious, but your cooking is inedible." While Motoharu is away, she attends "Mitsu Keiko's Cooking Class" to learn how to make delicious food, but the instructor, Mitsu Keiko, is not only greedy for food but also for sex...

Ichido hashitai tonari no nyôbô

2.0 1996
列車ノトビラゴシニメヲアわせるヒト人へ

Have you ever felt like punching a person on a train? Sunao is a boy who understands that there is no right thing or right person in the world, but he is obsessed with the fact that there are too many wrong things and wrong people in the world. In the closed room of the train, a microcosm of the world, are the scenes Sunao encounters a mirage or reality? Is the other boy who follows him an illusion created by Sunao, or is he an alter ego of the world? This is an instantaneous spatial film that expresses through a boy with an inner weakness the fantasy that everyone has of being able to hit a noisy woman or a pompous man who happens to be in the same carriage as him. The filming on the train, which must have been done guerrilla style, makes us feel the speed at which the train runs.

列車ノトビラゴシニメヲアわせるヒト人へ

NR 1993
Karma

Man-seok, a servant, longs for Jin-sa's only daughter, Seon-rye. On the day of her first wedding ceremony, Man-seok runs away with the refusing Sun-rye and starts a new life in the mountains. However, a year later, when the 6.25 broke out, Man-seok enlisted as a substitute for a few land guards, and Seon-rye, who believed that he died due to the division of the country, followed the man outside, ignoring her young daughter Kkot-sil. After returning from the military, Man-seok takes a flower thread that had grown from someone else's hand and grows it with love and sincerity for 15 years. However, her flower room also runs away to the city following the man she loves, leaving behind her love for her father. A mother and daughter who betrayed Manseok one after another and left. After waiting for the flower room, Man-seok goes all over the country to find it.

Karma

4.0 1991
花粉症の森

A series of murders targeting children occur in a suburban residential area. A young boy, Mamoru, realizes that all the murders have something in common and confides in his friend Takeshi. A tooth was always pulled out of the corpse. A new victim had also had his teeth pulled. Then they see a man who looks like the sheriff at the scene. Takeshi says that all the adults in the town are the enemy, and scares Mamoru by telling him that when it really hurts, he can't even speak. Takeshi grabs a slingshot and tries to attack the sheriff, looking as if he is possessed by something. Eventually, Mamoru discovers something unexpected in Takeshi's house... The two boys are played by women, which makes the film seem like a fantasy, but don't underestimate the suspense, which is carefully calculated. The camerawork for the climax, the action scene in the attic, is also very good. The tempo of the action in the first half of the film is so good that it is shown in one go.

花粉症の森

NR 1992
The Happy and Short Life of a Goldfish

Goldfish born in Tenjinnuma, a famous goldfish production area, were auctioned off and sold to Yokota Gumi. The goldfish scooped by elementary school student Mitsui at the night store scooping goldfish will be kept at his house. For a while, the goldfish attracted attention as a pet of the Mitsui brothers and sisters, but on that Christmas, the green turtle took its place and was sent to his sister, Kana's friend, Sacchan's house. Sachi-chan is a kind child and loved to name the goldfish Hiroshi, but one day in August, a forgotten goldfish left in the garden for cleaning was exposed to too much direct sunlight, Close the whole life without missing. 1 year old and 2 months. She cried and buried the goldfish in her grave, but a week later she forgot.

The Happy and Short Life of a Goldfish

7.0 1995
Niizuma honban: Gusho nure nama shitagi

Saeko, who had seen off her husband Tokio on a business trip to Seoul, happened to be reunited with Yoshito, her boyfriend from her school days, and was invited to embrace him at a hotel. After Saeko fell in love with her righteous man, she slept with many men to forget her pain. Saeko, who was embraced by her righteous man for the first time in a long time, was approached by a man in the downtown area at night. Goro Takashima was one of the people she had a crush on during her student days. Goro was working overseas with his wife, Makiko, but had returned to Japan due to business matters. Goro persistently seduced Saeko. Saeko apologizes to Tokio in her heart and ends up being held in his arms. In fact, her wife Makiko is also the mistress of Goro's boss, Masao Yuki, and they have had physical relations many times...

Niizuma honban: Gusho nure nama shitagi

2.0 1992
Jingi 17: The Beast of Killing All

Miss Hotetor was killed in the sand group Shima. Hitoshi Kamibayashi, who rushed to the scene, was hit by a fierce shooting by a man in a black leather coat. It was Jin who responded, but he let the man escape. The sand group was struck by the anomaly of shooting 30 bullets at one woman. At that time, the young head of the Kyushu Genryukai is killed. Sakai, the chairman of the Kanto Ichienkai, orders the extermination of Sakoda, a former Genryukai executive who attacked Hitoshi and Yoshiro. And that Sakoda was undoubtedly the man in that black leather coat.

Jingi 17: The Beast of Killing All

NR 1998