Masahiro Motoki – MRQE

Touch (2024/I)

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

Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what really happened when his Japanese girlfriend mysteriously vanished without a trace from London fifty years earlier.

The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a village population forty-seven in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is a geographic description of the work and non-work of a farmer. A portrait, over five seasons, of a family, of a terrain, of a soundscape, and of duration itself. A film-as-adaptive-landscape. A georgic in five books.

Okuribito

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

Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking hes applying for a job at a travel agency he finds hes being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature as an undertakers assistant.

Yoru no shanghai

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

A successful Japanese make-up artist collides with a tough-talking Shanghai taxi driver in this romantic dramedy that twists traditional roles by making the beauty expert a male and the cab driver a feisty female. Although he works in a glamorous industry, Naoki Mizushima can’t help but notice that his life is anything but beautiful. Can the uncouth Lin Xi help him make over his life for the better?

Ashura no gotoku

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

“Asura no Gotoku”

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

In 1979 Tokyo, four distinct sisters uncover their aging father’s affair, causing their happy facades and bottled-up emotions to slowly unravel.

Sôseiji

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

When his mother’s untimely death quickly follows his father’s, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.

Chûgoku no chôjin

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

Wada, a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After his arrival, Wada encounters a violent, yet sentimental, yakuza, who takes the liberty of joining his adventure through China. Led on their long and disastrous journey to the mine by Shen, the three men come across something even more magical and enticing.

Tokiwa-so no seishun

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

There still stands a famous apartment building where such prominent manga artists as Tezuka Osamu, Shotaro Ishinomori and Fujio Akatsuka once lived, worked, and shared experiences.

Kagerô

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

Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she’s grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.