Haruko Katô – MRQE

Otôto

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

Ginko’s younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she discovers Tetsuro is terminally ill. Tetsuros impending death marks the beginning of love and toleration.

Pisutoru opera

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

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.

Sharaku

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

A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal. The film explores the eternal relationship between artist and producer, and describes the emanicipation of a man who refuses to let himself become the plaything of power and money.

Tokimeki ni shisu

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

Deaths in Tokimeki tells the disturbing, compulsive story of a hit-man waiting to carry out a job: the assassination of the leader of a religious cult, masterminded by the leader’s own deputy. But it is a story that is told in blocks, like the phrases in a child’s computer game, and what counts most is not the narrative but the spaces between the blocks-the gaps that are filled with undefined menaces as potent as anything in Lovecraft.

La Esclava del paraíso

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

Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and power.