The time: 1814. The place: Edo, now known as Tokyo. One of the highest populated cities in the world, teeming with peasants, samurai, townsmen, merchants,
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Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her
At a young age, Nitaroh is stricken with an illness that leaves him blind. He inherits the shamisen guitar once used by his mother and
It’s 1982, and Taeko is 27 years old, unmarried, and has lived her whole life in Tokyo. She decides to visit her family in the
Suzu Urano is a pure and kindhearted girl who loves to draw and keep her head in the clouds. Growing up in the outskirts of
Kaze Tachinu is adapted from Miyazaki`s most recent colour comic, about the man who designed the Zero Fighter which was used in World War II.
The original story follows the human drama of the Yamazaki family in Tokyo in the Year Shouwa 39 (1964) — the year that the city
In Kyokutei Bakin`s classic Japanese epic novel Nansou Satomi Hakkenden, eight samurai serve the Satomi clan during Japan`s tumultuous Sengoku (Warring States) era. The Edo-era
As Marii laments how the audience tends to applaud before she can finish her joke, the others point out she is also guilty of bad timing. Later,
The time: 1814. The place: Edo, now known as Tokyo.One of the highest populated cities in the world, teeming with peasants, samurai, townsmen, merchants, nobles,