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Kikujiro

  Masao (Yusuke Sekiguchi) is a lonely 9-year-old boy who decides to spend his summer vacation looking for his estranged mother, whom he has never met. Kikujiro (Takeshi Kitano) is Read More

My Neighbor Totoro

  This acclaimed animated tale by director Hayao Miyazaki follows schoolgirl Satsuke and her younger sister, Mei, as they settle into an old country house with their father and wait Read More

The Most Beautiful

  During World War II, the management of a war industry of optical instruments for weapons requests an effort from the workers to increase the productivity during four months. The Read More

The Pillow Book

  As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko’s father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from “The Pillow Book”, the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Read More

Perfect Blue

  The film follows Mima Kirigoe, a member of a Japanese idol group, who retires from music to pursue an acting career. As she becomes a victim of stalking, gruesome Read More

Ran

  In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them Read More

Essential Art House: Hidden Fortress

  One of the greatest action-adventure films ever made, The Hidden Fortress stands alongside the finest achievements of its creator—Japanese film master Akira Kurosawa. Produced in 1958, this thrilling Cinemascope Read More

After Life

  After people die, they spend a week with counselors, also dead, who help them pick one memory, the only memory they can take to eternity. They describe the memory Read More

Afraid To Die

  On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of his recently Read More

Adieu, Galaxy Express 999: Last Stop Andromeda

  Adieu Galaxy Express 999 is a 1981 sequel to the film adaptation of Galaxy Express 999.  Adieu presents an entirely new story line which takes place three years after Read More