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Art Theatre Guild Filmography
The following is a list of films produced by the Art Theatre Guild company of Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north .... Films produced by Art Theatre Guild References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Art Theatre Guild Filmography Filmographies Lists of films by studio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Theatre Guild
Art Theatre Guild (ATG) was a film production company in Japan that started in 1961 and ran through to the mid-1980s, releasing mostly Japanese New Wave and arthouse films. History ATG began as an independent agency which distributed foreign films in Japan. With the decline of the major Japanese film studios in the 1960s, an "art house" cinema group formed around ATG and the company moved into distributing Japanese works rejected by the major studios. By 1967 ATG was assisting with production costs for a number of new Japanese films. Some of the early films released by ATG include Shōhei Imamura's ''A Man Vanishes'' (1967), Nagisa Oshima's ''Diary Of A Shinjuku Thief'' (1968) and ''Death by Hanging'' (1968), Toshio Matsumoto's masterpiece ''Funeral Parade of Roses'' (1969), and Akio Jissoji's ''Mujo'' (1970). See also * Art Theatre Guild filmography The following is a list of films produced by the Art Theatre Guild Art Theatre Guild (ATG) was a film production company in Japan tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For The Damaged Right Eye
(aka For the Damaged Right Eye) is a short film by Toshio Matsumoto made in 1968 the year before his feature film ''Funeral Parade of Roses is a 1969 Japanese drama art film directed and written by Toshio Matsumoto, loosely adapted from ''Oedipus Rex'' and set in the underground gay culture of 1960s Tokyo. It stars Peter as the protagonist, a young transgender woman, and features Osa ...''. It features some of the same milieu, presented through three projectors running at simultaneously. Since projectors do not all run at the same speed, the images can go "out of sync," and each projection of the film can be different. References External linksGoogle Video of "For the Damaged Right Eye" * 1968 films Japanese black-and-white films Films directed by Toshio Matsumoto 1960s Japanese films {{1960s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Throw Away Your Books, Rally In The Streets
is a 1971 Japanese feature-length experimental drama film directed by Shūji Terayama. A metaphor for Japan's descent into materialism, it follows a young man's disillusionment with the world around him and his determination to achieve something in life while his family members are content with their poor social and economic standing. It was Terayama's first feature-length film. Reception The film won the grand prize at the San Remo Film Festival, and was voted the ninth best Japanese film of 1971 in the Kinema Junpo , commonly called , is Japan's oldest film magazine and began publication in July 1919. It was first published three times a month, using the Japanese ''Jun'' (旬) system of dividing months into three parts, but the postwar ''Kinema Junpō'' ha ... poll of film critics. References External links * * 1970s Japanese-language films 1971 films Japanese avant-garde and experimental films Films directed by Shūji Terayama 1970s Japanese films {{experime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shūji Terayama
was a Japanese avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. His works range from radio drama, experimental television, underground (''Angura'') theatre, countercultural essays, to Japanese New Wave and "expanded" cinema. Many critics view him as one of the most productive and provocative creative artists to come out of Japan. He has been cited as an influence on various Japanese filmmakers from the 1970s onward. Life Terayama was born December 10, 1935, in Hirosaki, Aomori, the only son of Hachiro and Hatsu Terayama. When Terayama was nine, his mother moved to Kyūshū to work at an American military base, while he himself went to live with relatives in the city of Misawa, also in Aomori. Terayama lived through the Aomori air raids that killed more than 30,000 people. His father died at the end of the Pacific War in Indonesia in September 1945. Terayama entered Aomori High School in 1951 and, in 1954, he enrolled in Waseda University's Faculty of Educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emperor Tomato Ketchup (film)
is a Japanese short experimental film made by Shūji Terayama in 1970. A 27-minute cut was released in 1971. A "director's cut" of sorts, attempting to recreate the film as originally made, was released as a 75-minute feature in 1996, thirteen years after Terayama's death. A twelve-minute abridgement of the film, , was also released in 1971. Plot Set in an indeterminate future in which children have overthrown adults and established their own empire, the film does not have a central narrative or identifiable character roles. Rather it depicts a series of graphic ''tableaux'' in which children (played onscreen by actual children) engage in cruel and abusive acts against the adults under their dominion. These include scenes of child soldiers arresting, enslaving, executing, and raping helpless victims, often held at gunpoint. A constitution is read aloud, establishing the basic laws of the empire and the supremacy of children over adults. The title of "Emperor Tomato Ketchup" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 In Film
The year 1971 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1971 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour-long documentary film, ''Eat the Document'', premieres at New York's Academy of Music. The film includes footage from Dylan's 1966 UK tour. *April 23 - Melvin Van Peebles film ''Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song'' becomes the highest-grossing independent film of 1971. *May - The first permanent IMAX projection system begins showing at Ontario Place's "Cinesphere" in Toronto. *May 10 - Frank Yablans becomes President of Paramount Pictures. *Britain's National Film School begins operation at Beaconsfield Film Studios. Awards Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): :'' The Go-Between'', directed by Joseph Losey, United Kingdom Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): :''The Garden of the Finzi-Continis'' (''Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini''), directed by Vittorio De Sica, I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuo Kuroki
was a Japanese film director who was particularly known for his films on World War II and the question of personal guilt. Career While Kuroki was often listed as being born in Miyazaki Prefecture, he was actually born in Matsusaka, Mie. He attended Doshisha University, but left before graduating, instead finding employment at Iwanami Productions (Iwanami Eiga). There he directed PR films and documentary films, while also participating in the "Blue Group" (Ao no kai) with other Iwanami filmmakers such as Noriaki Tsuchimoto, Shinsuke Ogawa, and Yōichi Higashi, a group that was exploring new paths in documentary. Kuroki left Iwanami after experiencing conflicts with the sponsors of his ''Hokkaido, My Love'' (1960), and it was his ''Record of a Marathon Runner'' (1964) that helped spark changes in the Japanese documentary world. Kuroki switched to fiction film, independently producing ''Silence Has No Wings'' (1966) and showing it at the Art Theatre Guild. He became one of the repre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshishige Yoshida
, also known as Kijū Yoshida, was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Life and career Graduating from the University of Tokyo, where he studied French literature, Yoshida entered the Shōchiku studio in 1955 and worked as an assistant to Keisuke Kinoshita, before debuting as a director in 1960 with ''Rokudenashi''. He was a central member of what came to be called the "Shōchiku Nouvelle Vague" along with Nagisa Oshima and Masahiro Shinoda, and his works have been studied under the larger rubric of the Japanese New Wave, a linkage which Yoshida himself disliked. Like many of his New Wave cohorts, he felt restricted under the studio system. After Shōchiku's re-editing of his ''Escape from Japan'' (1964), he left the studio to start his own production company, for which he directed such films as ''Eros + Massacre''. Between 1960 and 2004, Yoshida directed more than 20 films, some of which starred his wife, actress Mariko Okada. After a long absence from the screen followi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akio Jissoji
(March 29, 1937 – November 29, 2006) was a Japanese Television in Japan, television and film director best known outside Japan for the 1960s TV series ''Ultraman'' and ''Ultra Seven, Ultraseven'', as well as for his Auteur theory, auteur Erotic art, erotic Art Theatre Guild, ATG-produced Buddhism, Buddhist trilogy , , and . He was also known for his film adaptations of Japanese horror author Edogawa Rampo. Jissoji possessed a very distinctive Style (visual arts), visual style that was notable even in Cinema of Japan, Japanese cinema which is known internationally for its visual style. Every project he directed, from children's action shows to disturbing Pornography in Japan, adult films had an uncompromising approach to cinematic story telling. His episodes of the ''Ultraman'' TV shows are unique and quite unusual for children's television. His career is also unusual in that he went back and forth from children's television to film projects that were sexually provocative in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mujo (film)
is a 1970 Japanese erotic drama film directed by Akio Jissoji. The film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival. Its English title is ''This Transient Life''. Cast * Ryō Tamura as Masao (brother) * Michiko Tsukasa as Yuri (sister) * Kozo Yamamura as father * Kin Sugai as mother * Kotobuki Hananomoto as Iwashita (the servant) * Akiji Kobayashi * Eiji Okada as Mori (the sculptor) * Mitsuko Tanaka as Mori's second wife * Isao Sasaki as Mori's Son * Minori Terada * Haruhiko Okamura Haruhiko is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *Haruhiko Arai (born 1947), Japanese screenwriter, publisher/editor of ''Eiga Geijutsu'' film magazine * Haruhiko Ash, founder of ''Eve of Destiny'', a Japanese ind ... as Ogino (Buddhist priest) References External links * 1970 films 1970 drama films 1970s erotic drama films Japanese erotic drama films 1970s Japanese-language films Japanese black-and-white films Films directed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kei Kumai
was a Japanese film director from Azumino, Nagano prefecture. After his studies in literature at Shinshu University, he began work as a director's assistant. He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for his first film, '' Nihon rettō'', in 1965. His 1972 film '' Shinobu Kawa'' was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1973 film ''Rise, Fair Sun'' was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival. ''Sandakan No. 8'' received widespread acclaim for tackling the issue of a woman forced into prostitution in Borneo before the outbreak of World War II. Kinuyo Tanaka won the Best Actress Award at the 25th Berlin International Film Festival for her performance. The film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 48th Academy Awards. Kumai's follow-up film was 1976's ''Cape of North'', starring French actress Claude Jade as a Swiss nun who falls in love with a Japanese engineer on a trip from Marseilles to Yokohama. His 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apart From Life
''Apart from Life'' ( ja, 地の群れ, translit. Chi no mure) is a 1970 Japanese drama film directed by Kei Kumai. It was entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Mizuho Suzuki as Unami * Hiroko Kino as Noriko Fukuji * Mugihito as Nobuo Tsuyama (as Makoto Terada) * Sen Hara as Kaneyo, Nobuo's grandmother * Tanie Kitabayashi as Matsuko Fukuji * Noriko Matsumoto as Eiko, Unami's wife * Tomoko Naraoka as Mitsuko * Asao Sano as Yuji, Mitsuko's husband * Jūkichi Uno (real name ; 27 September 1914 – 9 January 1988) was a Japanese actor. In 1950, he formed the with Osamu Takizawa and others. Personal life He is the father of musician Akira Terao. Filmography Honours *Medals of Honor (Japan), Medal wi ... as Shigeo Miyaji References External links * 1970 films 1970 drama films Japanese black-and-white films Films directed by Kei Kumai 1970s Japanese-language films Japanese drama films 1970s Japanese films {{1970s-Japan-fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
