Yukio Kubota Trailers
Leonie TrailerCaterpillar TrailerGolden Flower: What Is Hidden Is the True Flower, What Is Gone Is the Butterfly Trailer
Leonie TrailerCaterpillar TrailerGolden Flower: What Is Hidden Is the True Flower, What Is Gone Is the Butterfly Trailer
Total trailers found: 51
08 October 1969
This film documents student preparations for the final phases of the 1969 protests against the renewal of the security treaty.
29 December 1978
Tadao decides to comes back from Tokyo to live in his home town, in the countryside. He stays at his parents place and finds a job, repairing transistor and television.
07 July 1973
A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.
06 August 1982
Set in the wilderness of Hokkaido, the story of a couple in their 30s and a couple in their 20s is drawn, and the subtle emotions of the two men and women are depicted with intense Eros and delicate images under the theme of marriage exchange.
14 December 2002
Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki's sixth decade behind the camera, "A Boy's Summer in 1945" (literally "A Beautiful Summer in Kirishima") is a lyric, novelistic drama set in the countryside in the last days before Japan's surrender ending WWII.
08 November 1975
Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.
15 May 1982
Yahagi Michiko is accosted and raped walking home one evening. From there she maneuvers the logistics of the police, hospital, and criminal justice system while balancing her home life including romantic relationships.
21 January 1978
A young Japanese man finds himself in the company of a strange, effeminate gay man and a girl with a seedy sexual history and who even now is pregnant again.
01 December 1967
Shingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko wants to know who is the true father of Takashi, born by artificial insemination.
03 June 1981
A girl named O loves a rich, and much older man. She is subjected to a variety of humiliating experiences to prove her unconditional obedience to him in a Chinese brothel.
07 October 1989
Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.
05 March 1971
A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle engineer.
01 April 1995
A group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India.
31 July 2004
Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of 1948, as the ghost of her father visits Mitsué (Rié Miyama).
07 August 1981
Yuko is in love with an old poet who happens to be also a married man. She waits patiently for him and only him, yet she is constantly being lust by others.
28 May 1988
Young orphan Onimaru is adopted by the wealthy Yamabe family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights.
13 March 1969
Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s.
20 November 2010
The true life story of Leonie Gilmour, whose life crossed continents, wars and cultures, embodied with courage and passion in search of art and freedom.
05 July 2008
Set during World War II, the film follows a young brother and sister as they attempt to survive the aftermath of the firebombing of Kobe City.
11 September 1993
Tatsuya is on a honeymoon in Australia. A couple of unfortunate encounters land him in jail, where he’s imprisoned without a chance of ever getting out again.
05 April 2003
Kenzo was behind bars for killing a gangster. Upon his release, he goes to live with his son, whose marriage is on the rocks.
14 August 2010
The story of a village woman given the grueling task of looking after (and fulfilling the sexual needs of) her quadruple amputee husband, a Japanese soldier in the Second Sino-Japanese War who has been decreed a "War God" by the Emperor.
05 October 1968
Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
10 October 1986
A sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine.
08 April 1983
Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband's emotional conflicts with the wisdom of an adult.
11 August 2006
In Kagoshima, in the final days of World War II, an offer of marriage comes to Etsuko Kamiya, who lives with her brother and his wife.
28 January 1977
In the mid-1970s, protests were waning across Japan after the Red Army scandal of Asama Cottage. In Sanrizuka, people were weary of the violence and the airport was well under construction.
06 August 1980
A young woman breaks off her long-term relationship with her boyfriend to move to Tokyo in search of new experiences.
01 January 1963
A documentary film produced to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Iwanami Shoten's founding. It depicts the history of Iwanami Shoten over a 50-year period from its founding in 1913 to 1963, using films, publications, photographs, etc.
28 January 1989
After the death of her mother a young woman wants to meet her real father
25 December 1979
Mariko is living the life of a typical Japanese college student in the 70's, spending far more of her time balancing boyfriends and part-time jobs than on her schoolwork.
16 January 1999
This is a film about seven artists. It's also a film about seven people who are mentally handicapped.
01 April 1984
Documentary following a farmer who practices organic farming in the middle of a residential area in Setagaya, Tokyo.
28 March 1991
Shiragaki is renowned for its ceramics. This documentary follows people who must overcome physical disabilities to work in the town.
02 June 2007
Documentary about the great Japanese documentary maker Tsuchimoto Noriaki made a couple of years before his death.
29 September 1984
Based on the novel of the same name by Yoshio Kataoka.
21 November 2009
Nursing home "Yuyoso". Many lonely old people live there, including botanist Taro Makiso, a physicist, an actor, a bar mom, and a chef.
26 September 1992
In 1964, a chemical factory in Niigata Prefecture dumped mercury into the Agano River, the beginning of a manmade tragedy that would affect locals for years to come.
22 May 1969
After wandering into a cemetery, a young man named Shusei is led by the mysterious Madame Enjoji to a secluded mansion.
01 December 1987
The movie compiles footage taken by Ogawa Production for a period of more than ten years after the collective moved to Magino village.
15 March 1978
Third is an aimless young man who hangs around with a couple of girls who are amateur hookers. One day, while acting as their pimp, he gets into a conflict with a young gangster and winds up killing him.
25 June 1974
When his wife, the outspoken feminist Miyuki Takeda, announced that she was leaving him in order to find herself, Kazuo Hara began this raw, intensely personal documentary as a way to both maintain a connection to the woman he still cared for and to make sense of their complex relationship.
26 October 1985
At the beginning of the 1970s, in the village of Rokkasho situated at the base of the Shimokita peninsula, the prospect of sudden development and industrialization was raised.
12 March 1971
The first in a series of independent documentaries that Tsuchimoto made of the mercury poisoning incident in Minamata, Japan.
30 May 1998
Taku Shinjo spins this rural drama about ancient taboos and encroaching modernity. Takamine (Gitan Otsuru) is a big-city workaholic sent to a small remote island to seal a business deal.
18 July 1970
"Sanrizuka: The Three-Day War" is a documentary by Shinsuke Ogawa chronicling the escalation of conflict surrounding the Japanese government’s plan to build a new international airport on farmland in Sanrizuka near Tokyo.
24 May 1975
After the waning of the protests in Sanrizuka, Ogawa Pro started questioning the future of the collective and looking for other subjects to film.
09 May 2009
Children living on the streets in the Republic of Kenya in East Africa collect garbage for a living. This documentary film features children who survive their severe conditions by helping each other out.