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Started in 1961 as a distributor of foreign and domestic films produced outside of the major studios, the Art Theater Guild (ATG) in Japan produced their own pictures from 1967. (...read more)
  This Transient Life
Japanese Title Mujo
English Title This Transient Life
Director Akio Jissoji
[1970 / B&W / Standard / Mono / 143 min]
What is transience? What is a sin? --It's a film that seeks out the depth of human minds through incest. As the work of the Art Theater Guild (ATG) established itself in the 60s, it attracted the largest audience. It was also the most internationally recognized film that received the Golden Leopard (Grand Prix) award in the 1970 Locarno Film Festival, and that caused a big controversy in the conference of FIPRESCI, titled "Eroticism and Violence in Cinema", which was held in Milan, Italy.
  Poem
Japanese Title Uta
English Title Poem
Director Akio Jissoji
[1972 / B&W / Cinema Scope / Mono / 119 mins]
The world is changeable, and life is frail. This is the last film of the ATG trilogy of the director Akio Jissoji, who sought the roots of inner psychology and eroticism. It's a story of a young man who turns his back on the modern world, seeking to be a protector of a family and heads to his destruction.
  As Twilight Falls
Japanese Title Yoiyami Semareba
English Title As Twilight Falls
Director Akio Jissoji
[1969 / B&W / Standard / Mono / 43 mins]
A shocking film of Akio Jissoji focusing on young men's dangerous games from a screenplay by Nagisa Oshima, the 3-time nominee to the Grand Prix of the Cannes Film Festival with Shinjuku Dorobo Nikki and other films.
  Funeral Parade of Roses
Japanese Title Bara no Soretsu
English Title Funeral Parade of Roses
Director Toshio Matsumoto
[1969 / B&W / Standard / Mono / 107 min]
“Oedipus Rex” in sleazy but energetic late 1960s Tokyo. Sophisticated camera works and outstanding editing make this movie powerful and never let it go out of style!!
  Demons
Japanese Title Shura
English Title Demons
Director Toshio Matsumoto
[1971 / B&W+Color / Standard / Mono / 134 min]
Love, rage, grudge and remorse: a colorful array of emotions is vividly depicted in this movie. The effective use of stop motion is impressive. The nasty bloodshed involving an infant could not be more gruesome.
  Dogra Magra
Japanese Title Dogra Magra
English Title Dogra Magra
Director Toshio Matsumoto
[1988/ Color + B&W / Standard / Mono / 109 min]
Dogra Magra by Kyusaku Yumeno who is widely known in Europe as well as Japan for his imaginative surrealistic novels, has long been considered impossible to be adapted into a screenplay. An eminent avant-garde movie director Toshio Matsumoto successfully transformed the novel into an intelligible movie through meticulous efforts: he painstakingly analyzed the anatomy of the story lines and artfully reconstructed them so that logic flows smoothly. This approach is the most audacious experiment in this movie.
  Black Rain
Japanese Title Kuroi Ame
English Title Black Rain
Director Shohei Imamura
[1989 / B&W / Standard / Stereo / 123 mins]
A film made by Shohei Imamura based on the masterwork of Masuji Ibuse. It's a controversial work that matter-of-factly introduces a young woman who received the "black rain" from the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and a married couple taking care of her, and other people suffering from A-bomb sickness.
  A Man Vanishes
Japanese Title Ningen Johatsu
English Title A Man Vanishes
Director Shohei Imamura
[1967 / B&W / Standard / Stereo / 130 mins]
It's a documentary filmed by the Palm d'Or awarded director of Ballad of Narayama, Shohei Imamura, about Yoshie, the fiancé of a missing man who searched for him for 7 months with a reporter, played by Shigeru Tsuyuguchi.
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