Movies: Art Theatre Guild
- 1969
Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
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In 1960s Tokyo, Gonda owns a bar in which the gay, cross-dresser, and trans scenes meet. Gonda is in a relationship with the madam of the bar, Leda. As the younger Eddie starts a passionate affair with Gonda, she ignites the jealousy of Leda, unaware...
- 1985
Typhoon Club (1985)
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Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the five-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly-liberating typhoon, which six of the students end...
- 1968
Death by Hanging (1968)
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A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next....
- 1974
Himiko (1974)
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The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history....
- 1974
Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974)
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A director faces creative block while working on his latest film - a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan....
- 1971
Demons (1971)
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Tells the story of the samurai Gengobe, who seeks revenge after falling prey to the schemes of a geisha and her husband....
- 1971
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971)
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An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense familial dysfunction, psychosexual alienation, and existentialist malaise....
- 1984
The Crazy Family (1984)
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The Kobayashi family finally are able to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment to the suburban house of their dreams. But things are not as perfect as they seem: the house is infested by termites and the family starts going crazy. As the Ko...
- 1971
Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1971)
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In a Japanese colony, children overthrow their parental guardians and attempt to form a new society. Their plan spirals out of control and they are soon lost in a web of sexual deviation and violence....
- 1971
The Ceremony (1971)
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Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades....
- 1971
Mandala (1971)
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Two university students from Kyoto decide to swap partners and spend the night in an isolated motel. However, one of the couples is attacked. Desperate for answers, they search for the attackers and come across a cult that promotes sexual freedom....
- 1970
This Transient Life (1970)
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Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs....
- 1976
The Youth Killer (1976)
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Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, tensions increase....
- 1969
Boy (1969)
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A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles....
- 1972
Ecstasy of the Angels (1972)
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A militant revolutionary group is torn apart by betrayal as its members descend into paranoia and sexual decadence....
- 1975
Preparation for the Festival (1975)
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Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in....
- 1972
Dear Summer Sister (1972)
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14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father’s young fiancée Momoko in search of her half-brother whom she has never met. Their guide, a beer-guzzling ex-soldier, takes them to the locale’s tourist attractions, quickly del...
- 1980
Zigeunerweisen (1980)
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A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways....
- 1969
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969)
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In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect....
- 1969
Double Suicide (1969)
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Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, e...