Yoichi Takabayashi’s “Musashino” is a black and white film with sound that takes place in the woods of the legendary Musashino Plain, located on the outskirts of Tokyo. Originally part of The Gate Theater’s Erotica Neurotica program, its eroticism is not explicit, but rather suggestive—a scopophilia or love of watching, of peeking, of lingering and observing both the woman in her affection for the woods and the evocative landscape.
Oyaki Kue
Yoichi Takabayashi’s “Musashino” is a black and white film with sound that takes place in the woods of the legendary Musashino Plain, located on the outskirts of Tokyo. Originally part of The Gate Theater’s Erotica Neurotica program, its eroticism is not explicit, but rather suggestive—a scopophilia or love of watching, of peeking, of lingering and observing both the woman in her affection for the woods and the evocative landscape.
A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.
Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an expensive ring.
Masashi is a photographer. He has his parents and an older brother Yukihiro. Through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Masashi begins to take staged photos of his family.
After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cahoots with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire for revenge knows no bounds.
ณ หมู่บ้านที่เคยงดงามซึ่งกลายเป็นลานทิ้งขยะขนาดยักษ์ เด็กหนุ่มพยายามหาทางหลุดพ้นจากโชคชะตาอันโหดร้ายที่ผูกมัดเขาไว้ทั้งชีวิต
ทาคูมิ และลูกสาวของเขา อาศัยอยู่ในหมู่บ้านมิซูฮิกิ ใกล้กับเมืองโตเกียว จนวันหนึ่งชาวบ้านในหมู่บ้านเริ่มรู้ถึงแผนการที่จะสร้างสถานที่ตั้งแคมป์ใกล้กับบ้านของ ทาคูมิ เพื่อที่จะให้ชาวเมืองสามารถมาพักผ่อนหย่อนใจและหลบหนีความวุ่นวายมาสู่ธรรมชาติได้
Toshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. But then this old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's family life.
Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers.