Ryo Kase – MRQE

Bel Canto

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

A famous opera singer is held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after performing at a Japanese businessman’s lavish birthday party. Unexpected bonds are forged in the standoff that ensues.

Jayuui Eondeok

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Kwon returns to Seoul from a restorative stay in the mountains. She is given a packet of letters left by Mori, who has come back from Japan to propose to her. Kwon drops and scatters the letters, all of which are undated. When she reads them, she has to make sense of the chronology.

Restless (2011/I)

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love.

Antena

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

Yuichiro is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs over him like a pall as he wanders Japan’s S&M clubs. But his younger brother claims to be able to sense their sister with his “antenna”.

Kubi

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears.

Retribution

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

A Japanese lawman (KÃ´ji Yakusho) sees ghostly visions and suspects that he is a murderer.

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.

Minamata

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities.

Tabi no Owari Sekai no Hajimari

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

A young Japanese woman named Yoko finds her cautious and insular nature tested when she travels to Uzbekistan to shoot the latest episode of her travel variety show.

Autor, El

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

Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens it is discovered that one of the victims isn’t related to the family.