Art Theatre Guild Filmography Checklist

20   7   7.2 

Japanese title: Ningen Jouhatsu 人間蒸発
Director: Shōhei Imamura
First film co-produced by ATG.
From Wiki:
On the face of it, a documentary about an ordinary man who—like many Japanese every year—disappears without trace, leaving his job and fiancee behind, Imamura takes the narrative in unexpected directions, causing the viewer to question what is reality and what might be fiction.

External reviews@IMDB

hayabusa's rating:

36   8.3   7.6 

Japanese title: Kou Shikei 絞死刑
Director: Nagisa Oshima
From Wiki:
Although the complexity of Death by Hanging resists easy narrative description, a general plot can be outlined. A documentary-like opening introduces a death chamber where an execution is about to take place. Inexplicably, the man to be executed, an ethnic Korean known only as R, survives hanging but loses his memory. The officials who witness the hanging debate how to proceed, as the law could be interpreted as forbidding execution of an individual who does not recognize their crime and its punishment. They decide that they must persuade R to accept guilt by reminding him of his crimes - at this point the film moves into a highly theatricalized film-within-a-film structure.

External reviews@IMDB

hayabusa's rating:

17   8.7   6.8 

Japanese title: Hatsukoi: Jigoku-hen 初恋・地獄篇
Director: Susumu Hani
Nominated for the Golden Bear award at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival.

External reviews@IMDB

hayabusa's rating:

13   9   6.8 

Japanese title: Nikudan 肉弾
Director: Kihachi Okamoto

hayabusa's rating:

44   6.9   7.5 

Japanese title: Shinju: Ten No Amijima 心中天網島
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Based on the play The Love Suicides at Amijima.

External reviews@IMDB

hayabusa's rating:

20   7.7   7.6 

Japanese title: Shonen 少年
Director: Nagisa Oshima
From Wiki:
Based on real events reported in Japanese newspapers in 1966, Boy follows the title character across Japan, as he is forced to participate in a dangerous scam to support his dysfunctional family. The boy Toshio's father is an abusive, lazy veteran, who forces his wife, the boy's stepmother, to feign being hit by cars in order to shake down the guilty motorists. When his wife is unable to perform the scam, Toshio is enlisted. The boy's confused perspective of the scams and his chaotic family life are vividly captured in precisely edited sequences. As marital strife, mounting abuse, and continual moving take their toll, the boy tries to escape, either by running away on trains, or by retreating into a sci-fi fantasy he has constructed for his little brother and himself. Finally, in snowy Hokkaidō, the law finally catches up when the little brother unwittingly causes a fatal car accident. Although traumatized, Toshio tries to help his family elude capture in the final sequence, presented in documentary fashion, describing their arrest.

External reviews@IMDB

hayabusa's rating:

3   7   7.4 

Japanese title: Tsuburekakatta Migime No Tame Ni つぶれかかった右眼のために
Director: Toshio Matsumoto

Short film made at the same time as Funeral Parade of Roses using much of the same footage.

68   8.3   7.6 

Japanese title: Bara No Soretsu 薔薇の葬列
Director: Toshi Matsumoto
Loose adaptation of Oedipus Rex.

External reviews@IMDB

hayabusa's rating:

3   0   0 

Japanese title: Chi No Mure 地の群れ
Director: Kei Kumai

Nominated for the Golden Bear award at the 20th Berlin International Film Festival.

7   8   6.9 

Japanese title: Tokyo Senso Sengo Hiwa 東京戰争戦後秘話
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Note: Movie is also known as: He Died After the War

External reviews@IMDB

hayabusa's rating: