Shigeru Izumiya – MRQE

Biriken

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

The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. It’s a small god with a pointed head, a fat belly and a characteristic smile. When the casket in which the statuette was found is broken, the spirit of Billiken is free. After that he tries to fulfill the wishes of all those who had prayed to him, but it doesn’t always works.

LoveDeath

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

A man and a woman are together on the ‘Chrysalis Day’, the fatal day everything in your life will be decided depends on how you spend the day. A violent man holding pure love, Sai and a stunningly beautiful playgirl, Sheila. While Sheila flees with a large sum of money, she is chased by a cool but violent gang, crazy killers and an out of control cop. No one can stop Sai and Sheila’s love runaway.

Dog Star

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

A seeing-eye dog (Shiro) is granted one wish by his former owner. He chooses to become a human for a short time so he can find the girl who trained him as a puppy. While attempting to get to know her (as he runs along behind her and sniffs for her around town) he eventually falls in love with her.

Dokuritsu shonen gasshôdan

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

A young teen’s father dies, and he is sent to an orphanage. He’s teased because he stutters almost runs away, until a beautiful, androgynous boy, Yasuo (Sora Toma), convinces him to join the choir.

Kanzen-naru shiiku

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

Schoolgirl Kuniko is kidnapped by a middle-aged man Iwazono when she is jogging. He tells her that he had a failed marriage which leaves him a deep and everlasting scar in his mind. He kidnaps her in search of a perfect marriage and intends to lock her in the room and ‘educate’ her to perform perfect sex where body and soul are united.

Hachikô monogatari

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

The tragic, true story about Hachik, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno’s death.

Bakuretsu toshi

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

Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living.

Eijanaika

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

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry “Ei ja nai ka” (“Why not?”) in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminates in a revelrous march on the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society.