Eiji Okada – MRQE

Okuman choja

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.

The Winners

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband’s dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way.

Chinmoku

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.

Kanojo to kare

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband’s life shrinks in scope and intimacy. She finds new interests, new love, and a greater sense of her place in the world.

Ansatsu

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when “four black ships” anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. At a time when assassination had become a disturbing political tool, Shinoda’s film follows Hachiro Kiyokawa, an ambitious, masterless samurai whose allegiances drift dangerously between the Shogunate and the Emperor.

Mujo

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.

Nankyoku monogatari

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica.

Wagahai wa neko de aru

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. Hes put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are especially fans of Nakadai will appreciate how the actor comically rants about here. His home life is almost disastrous, with a ditzy (but attractive) wife, three young children, a loud school nearby thats controlled by a corrupt businessman he loathes, and frequent visits from layabout friends. And the grey-furred, green-eyed cat!

Kita-kitsune monogatari

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Director Koreyoshi Kurahara chronicles a year in the lives of Flep and Leila, two foxes living in Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island, where the freezing winters are long and the mild summers short. After Flep defeats another male fox to become Leila’s lifelong partner, they mate and raise a litter of five kits. With their family complete, the group must contend with human interference in their habitat, such as chicken farms and snowmobiles, and struggle against the debilitating cold of winter. The animals experience both triumph and tragedy, as the law of this harsh land proves only the strong survive.

Sugata Sanshiro

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Remake of Kurosawa’s films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His teacher, Shogoro Yano, is a devout man who has aroused the enmity of the local practitioners of jujitsu, the older and more accepted of the two sports. Sugata uses his newly learned prowess to gain a measure of respect from others; however, Shogoro insists that the sport has a spiritual side, a lesson Sugata has yet to learn. Eventually, in hand-to-hand combat with the father of a young woman he loves, he comes to understand the true meaning of judo.