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Jiang Jie

Jiang Jie is famous throughout China: the “Chinese Joan of Arc,” in the words of director Zhang Yuan, a communist heroine executed by the Kuomintang in 1949, on the eve of the revolution. Zhang Yuan’s film, a passionately engaged tribute to the 1964 “revolutionary opera” based on Jiang Jie’s life, follows the original closely...The Revolutionary melodrama plot, not that different from Verdi’s 19th century versions, has of course a completely different resonance today. The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) enshrined this kind of “revolutionary opera” — based on traditional Beijing opera, but with substantial stylistic and formal revisions — as the epitome of Maoist propaganda art. In the past ten years, Chinese and Western experts have begun to re-evaluate the art behind the propaganda, to find creativity, and even shocking beauty under the layers of kitsch and repellent politics the works have sometimes embodied. —Shelly Kraicer

Jiang Jie

NR 2002
Couples – A Diary of Swinger Experiences

Episode 1: It’s been six months since ANNA and her boyfriend KOTA have started living together. They enjoy having sex while talking about their naughty imaginations. One day, JYURI, Anna’s childhood friend, comes to their apartment. Listening to JYURI’s stories about ANNA makes KOTA jealous for not knowing his girlfriend as much as her, and he comes up with a plan….. Episode 2: JYURI lives with TAKESHI, her boyfriend from college. Recently, TAKESHI has suffered ED without a known cause. She tries hard to make love to him, but TAKESHI cannot have an erection. One day, JYURI’s childhood friend ANNA comes over and asks her an advice…..

Couples – A Diary of Swinger Experiences

10.0 2007
Fade into You

A man works for the Universe Management Corporation. The man usually works on the earth. One day he goes off to another planet on business. A man gets a job in an architectural magazine company. However, he cannot see the boss who interviewed him for his first three days at work. During this time, he goes through not-so-ordinary experiences in his everyday life at the workplace. The boss comes to him out of the blue and takes him to Wonju with another female employee without notice. Although the boss wants to stay there together for the night, he comes back. A woman takes a trip to Jeju Island by herself.

Fade into You

NR 2005
Nagasawa Masami x Mizukawa Asami: Hawaii Onna Jitensha Futari Tabi

Lovely NHK TV show featuring friends Masami Nagasawa and Asami Mizukawa travelling by bicycle through Hawaii. Beautiful nature views of the island on this cute program aired back in 2009. Masami does not look nature friendly at all, cleaning and carefully examining vegetables and fruit before having a bite. But she looks very cute with long hair. Asami looks like someone I would like to be friends with, she is fun and loud and not as afraid of trying new things as Masami. Hawaii seen like this looks like paradise, especially the sunshine from the top of the mountain.

Nagasawa Masami x Mizukawa Asami: Hawaii Onna Jitensha Futari Tabi

NR 2009
Cui Jian: Rocking China

Crowned as the “godfather of China rock” and yet banned from large-scale performances in Beijing over the past thirteen years, Cui Jian has made his come back in 2005 and remained an icon of the artist versus the State in the hearts of millions. Although the rocker has been reluctant to be identified with any specific political movement, whenever a new democratic voice has emerged (in media forms from underground film to the Internet), it has always found a way to embrace him, thus reconfirming Cui’s “outlaw” status. This documentary reviews his life and career paths from his early days and documents his crew and fans to three very different cities in Wuhan, Inner Mongolia and Beijing. Broadcast on HK Cable TV in summer 2006, the purpose of the video is to review Cui Jian’s career at the point of his new album release after a 6 year gap. The album is titled “Give You Color”.

Cui Jian: Rocking China

NR 2006
Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters

Army surveying team attempted to scale Mount Tsurugi, a peak never before reached by humans, in order to map Japan. This behind-the-scenes documentary, was shot by director Osawa Yoshitaka and the renowned cameraman Kimura Daisaku, who made his directorial debut with this film. Filming took place in the secluded Tateyama mountain range, boasting an altitude of 3,000 meters and lasted over 200 days. The film vividly showcases the pride of the "activists" who risked their lives to tackle the gruelling two-year production schedule.

Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters

NR 2009
The Night of the Earthquake

Mari and Yasuo are getting "fresh" with each other at the garbage dump when Mari unveils that she knows the whereabouts of a safe holding $100,000. After some convincing, Mari gets Yasuo to help her with the robbery. What these two sexually charged criminals don't know is that Kawada, a sadistic accountant for his gang, is also after the cash, and will stop at nothing to get it. During the night of the robbery, Katsuhiro, the manager of the warehouse in which all of this takes place, checks in the office only to find his co-worker and lover Keiko all tied up by the hands of Mari. Kawada arrives soon after, and as he's about to gut Yasuo like a fish, a massive earthquake shakes the whole city, and everyone is trapped inside. Kawada takes over and maniacly ties everyone up and carries out his savage sexual fantasies.

The Night of the Earthquake

3.7 2002
Jingi 35: Ambition Compensation

Burn all your heart fire. Two samurai in the wilderness. A small group belonging to the Ichienkai, the Kagawa group. Shuichi Kagawa, the son of the group leader, is released after a long sentence. He officially inherited the traces of the Kagawa group. Yoshiro is surprised to meet Shuichi, who has been in prison for a long time as a thought criminal. He was a junior who fought the student activism with Yoshiro. Around that time, there was information that Hitman, a well-known person in Kansai, had infiltrated the neighborhood. Jin instructs Kumosuke to look around. However?!

Jingi 35: Ambition Compensation

NR 2003