Yoshi Oida – MRQE

Carmen (TV)

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

Carmen, a bonobo female, flees from the research center in linguistics where she is being kept. She takes refuge at a young couple’s place, Mercier and his pregnant wife Myriam. Mercier, beginning at a new job, is reluctant to welcome the ape. But Myriam makes friend with her.

Felice… Felice…

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

Tragic love story about the photographer and explorer Felice Beato who travelled back to Japan in 1895 to seek his former wife O-Kiku. On the way he describes in a nostalgic letter to his brother how much he yearns for his lost love O-Kiku and how impotent he feels in an ancient Japan subject to rapid change. The journey takes him to Nagasaki and Moji, Onomichi, Mount Fuji, Yokohama and Tokyo. Places he once visited with his beloved and where he now no longer understands the people. Felice…Felice… is inspired by hand-coloured nineteenth century photos taken by e.g. Felice Beato, Sjimooka Renjo and Baron von Stilfried. In this film, shot entirely in a studio, the photos depict Felice’s journey. Awarded the Golden Calf for Best Feature film in 1998. (NFF)

The Last Recipe: Kirin no shita no kioku

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

A famous chef who is tasked with tracking down a 70-year-old missing recipe.

Silence

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

Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.

Wasabi

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

Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn’t share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his girlfriend who left him shortly after marriage without a trace.

Atsumono

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

Os Olhos da Ásia

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

Nakaura of Julian (Julião Nakaura), a priest of the Society of Jesus, was one of four young ambassadors sent to Rome by the Jesuits in 1538, as proof that Japan had converted to Christianity. Fifty years after the mission, which so fascinated European royalty, Julian was forced again to prove his faith, only this time before a Shogun, who wanted to force him to abandon his religion. Julian resists, as does Miguel Chijiwa, a fellow at the embassy to Rome, who become a martyr. Betrayed by Cristóvão Ferreira, who cannot bear the torture, Julian suffers an inglorious death … or maybe not.

Madame Butterfly

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

Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha, seeks to fulfill her dreams through marriage to an American naval officer. Her faith in their future is shattered by his empty vows and the loss she endures touches something deep within us all.