Discovery of Image – The Era of Toshio Matsumoto Trailer
Mamoru Sasaki was a Japanese screenwriter for film and television. He was a frequent collaborator of Japanese New Wave directors like Nagisa Oshima and writer Masao Adach. He was also a prolific writer for Japanese tokusatsu shows with Akio Jissoji. Not to be confused with the Japanese animator with the same name.
Total trailers found: 35
26 November 1972
Based on manga by Kazuo Koike and Keiji Yoshitani.
23 February 1967
Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking songs.
25 June 1977
A woman believing to be a legendary immortal nun attracts people looking for answers to their life struggles.
02 January 1976
Huck Finn is a homeless boy because he was abandoned by his father, who left the village for over a year.
17 March 1979
Akio Jissoji's Ultraman is a 1979 Japanese tokusatsu kaiju film directed by Akio Jissoji. It is a compilation film made up of scenes from Jissoji's episodes of the original Ultraman TV series.
01 February 1977
An NHK adaptation of the famous manga by Moto Hagio.
15 February 1967
The son of an assassinated feudal lord, in the Muromachi period, attempts to avenge his father's death and meets Kagemaru, a renegade ninja helping peasants and farmers rebel against Oda Nobunaga's regime, all depicted through an experimental form of filming pages from the original manga set to sound.
30 March 1968
Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan.
01 March 1981
On a future Earth ruled by Emperor Darius, the crew members of the Nautilus Submarine fight bravely to win freedom from oppression.
14 April 1990
A series of serial murders occurred in a historic ruins where a TV crew is shooting a documentary.
02 September 1967
A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster become trapped in an underground hideaway.
02 February 1968
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.
15 February 1969
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.
05 August 1972
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.
21 March 1989
A biographical dramatization about the production of the original Ultraman, the beloved classic special effects fantasy series from Eiji Tsuburaya.
27 June 1970
When a man chases down his stolen movie camera, the thief commits suicide by jumping off a building. But after the police take the camera as evidence, it becomes unclear if there was ever a thief in the first place.
18 May 1971
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.
17 March 1979
Heidi is five years old when her aunt Dete, who has raised Heidi since her parents' deaths four years earlier, takes the orphaned Heidi to live with her formidable grandfather in the Swiss Alps.
15 January 2000
Produced for Fuji TV in 2000, the film reinterprets the story of a special samurai force - the Shinsengumi - at the end of the Edo period.
21 August 1993
Compilation film of the first half of the series Heidi: Girl of the Alps.
07 August 1982
The year is 2001 and the criminals have taken over Centinel City. The Police have lost control. The citizens are terrified.
02 November 1968
The sixth "Japan's No. 1 Man" feature. Followed by "Japan’s No. 1 Disconnected Man".
01 July 1977
Heidi leaves her beloved Alm and moves to Frankfurt, where she finds a new good friend in Clara. Aunt Dete wants Heidi to leave her grandfather on the mountain pasture and go with her to Frankfurt, where she is supposed to live with the Sesemann family and keep their paralyzed daughter Clara company.
18 October 1993
Hiroshi Asami has been working at Tsuburaya Productions for nearly 20 years. He is a member of the special effects team who both creates and wears kaiju costumes, making him an expert on how they move.
31 January 1975
AKA Serial Killer documents the social upheaval and political oppression that roiled Japan in the 1960s, profiling a nineteen-year-old serial killer Norio Nagayama.
09 December 2017
A five-part documentary chronicling Toshio Matsumoto, the legendary filmmaker known as a pioneer of experimental cinema in Japan and also active as a film theorist, who exerted a profound influence on innovative film expression from the 1950s onward.
01 November 1969
Maruyama, a day laborer, is living on an abandoned ship at the port of Osaka when he meets an elusive man offering a job.
20 December 1980
A member of the jieitai ("Self-Defense Force"; i.e. Japanese military) is on leave and finds a woman giving birth in a graveyard in the former Yoshiwara district.
08 August 1969
Buddhist statues are disappearing from temples in Kyoto. Maki pays a visit to Professor Fujimori, an archaeological authority, and encounters his assistant Miyako.
31 July 1968
“Ten girls set out on a journey…the first died after being struck by a waterfall…” A succession of homicides occur as sung in the lyrics of a song by a new singer, while radiation is detected from the corpses of the victims.
15 August 1968
One night, the phone rings at the home of the Takiguchi family. The daughter Reiko hands the receiver to her father, who then instantly goes up in flames and is burned to death! Subsequently, another incident of apparently spontaneous human combustion occurs right before Reiko’s eyes.
