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Umarekawaru to shitara

A mysterious world of images of an old, almost forgotten barbershop in the middle of the city, with its owner who is just “waiting” for something, and the people who visit him. A barbershop is a place where people want change. A place to find a new self. The barber finds a different self on the other side of the mirror, and between drowsiness and thoughts, he is lost between dreams and reality, pondering in a different space. The barber travels with various customers to a mysterious space. Invisible images are projected into each mind along with the recitation of poems.

Umarekawaru to shitara

NR 1996
Inside the Mind

Oki fuses documentary elements with narrative filmmaking to such a point that it's difficult to distinguish one from the other. The film is both the story of two men falling in love with each other on a beach, and a faithful document to the filmmaking process. In the film within a film titled "Gay Couple Trying to Connect on the Beach", the documentary footage of director Hiroyuki Oki will be double and triple transcribed. The documentary film explores the relationship between the director and the world, as well as interviews with friends. Soon the director realizes that "kokoro" is not what is inside of him, but the feeling that arises when confronted with something.

Inside the Mind

6.5 1999
Real Pleasure

Kurata, a migrant laborer, works at a construction site. His mother and younger sister, Yasuko, are back home, but Yasuko is practically ill from the shock of being raped. His entertainment is watching underground videos in his cramped apartment, and one of the women featured in one resembles Yasuko. One day, after receiving a telegram informing him of Yasuko's death, he gets drunk and wanders the streets, where he meets Momoko, a prostitute at a shady bar. He is attracted to Momoko, who looks just like Yasuko. However, when he learns that Momoko has been captured and raped by a gang of yakuza, he rushes to the scene...

Real Pleasure

2.0 1993
fan

If "light" is the protagonist of film, the idea would not change if "darkness" replaces "light". Yoshimoto proves this point with most simplicity. Placing a tiny point of ray in pitch black, his darkness achieves a limitless depth. This style goes under trial from around 1988 – a squirming object in drowning darkness goes through a transition from a solid machinery part to a soft Japanese architectural fixture to a misty female figure. Each of the objects, a subject of fancy, is placed in good balance, mingling with Rei Harakami's sound effects. This is one of Yoshimoto's most intense works.

fan

NR 1993
Women’s Testimonies - Pioneering Women in the Labor Movement

In 1982, the socialist researcher Ishidō Kiyotomo organized a round table with women activists who had participated in the rise of the labor movement, from the Taishō era (1912-1925) to the Shōwa era (1926-1989). At his request, Haneda records this meeting. Stimulated by her desire to " preserve the history of these women ", the director adds additional sequences to the recording. In the film, the discrimination and domination suffered by these activists are told in the first person.

Women’s Testimonies - Pioneering Women in the Labor Movement

NR 1996
Thirty-something Wife: Reward for Adultery

Sawano married Satomi, a distant relative of his boss at work, Fujimori. Fujimori has a wife named Akiyo, but also a mistress named Rio. Fujimori is being transferred, so he asks Sawano to take over his position so that Rio won't cheat on him while he's away. Sawano has a woman named Hagiyama Ayako, whom he keeps a secret from his wife. She is a seductive married woman. When Fujimori's wife Akiyo finds out about her husband's affair, she seduces Sawano to get revenge... This film, written by Futami Rei and directed by Fukamachi Akira, is a passionate drama that depicts the pleasures of an affair between a married man and a married woman.

Thirty-something Wife: Reward for Adultery

NR 1995
家族ケチャップ

A hard-hitting documentary that can only be described as unique. The protagonist is a friend of the director Kudo. His parents divorced when he was a child and he has grown up in an environment that is too miserable to be described in one word: gloomy. The film exposes all the privacy of his family. His father abandoned him and his mother and evaporated. A mother who brought her lover into the house. What were they thinking at the time when I felt so alone? To find out, he goes to his father's home, where he has remarried and has a child, and to his mother, who works hard to send him money. The camera follows the process closely and captures the naked truth on film. The director Kudo and the protagonist, in collusion to break the taboo, are on the edge of their seats in front of and behind the camera. The energy that surges through them is a truth that can only be expressed through the documentary method.

家族ケチャップ

NR 1992