Mariko Okada – MRQE

Eri Eri rema sabakutani

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

A.D. 2015: A virus has been spreading in many cities worldwide. It is a suicidal disease and the virus is infected by pictures. People, once infected, come down with the disease, which leads to death. They have no way of fighting against this infection filled with fear and despair. The media calls the disease the “Lemming Syndrome”.

Nagareru

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

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn’t see any future in her mothers trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.

Kagami no onnatachi

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

Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together.

Omocha

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

Set in the late 1950s, when geisha culture was threatened by moral crusades, it tells the story of Omacha (Miyamoto Maki), a young girl who sees the geisha life as a way to lift her poverty-stricken family from their hand-to-mouth existence. Through her eyes, we see the protocols and complex financial relationships which dictate the running of the geisha house. Fukasaku’s film is a work of great delicacy with moments of hypnotic beauty, and his tender direction, often touched with a sense of wonder, fills the screen with lovingly constructed scenes. At its heart is the poignant situation of the women who must sacrifice their normal relationships to live an ambiguous life in which they are a key part of society while being kept, for the most part, on its periphery, like perpetual mistresses.

Rengoku eroica

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

Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man, pretending to be the father, comes to get her back; Ayu keeps telling him that Rikiya and Nanako are her parents. Through this disruption, Rikiya suddenly starts remembering his youth as a revolutionary.

Erosu purasu Gyakusatsu

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

Mizu de kakareta monogatari

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

Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the love to his mother.

Sanma no aji

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

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.

Akibiyori

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

Miyamoto Musashi kanketsuhen: kettô Ganryûjima

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

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He’s sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan’s most powerful clan leader. He’s also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a year’s time but rejects Shogun’s patronage, choosing instead to live on the edge of a village, raising vegetables. He’s followed there by Otsu and later by Akemi, both in love with him. The year ends as Takezo assists the villagers against a band of brigands. He seeks Otsu’s forgiveness and accepts her love, then sets off across the water to Ganryu Island for his final contest.