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Premonition (予言, Yogen) is a 2004 Japanese horror film directed by Tsuruta Norio. Yogen is based on the manga Kyoufu Shinbun ("Newspaper of Terror") by Jirō Tsunoda, [2] serialized in Shōnen Champion in 1973. [3]
The production of the film started in April 2007. This is the first time Aparna Sen has made a film based on someone else's story. This movie is based on the title story of The Japanese Wife and Other Stories by Bengali Indian author Kunal Basu, who writes from Oxford and is an engineer by training.
S. S (Suzuki novel) Sailor Suit and Machine Gun; The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea; Sanshirō (novel) Sayonara Jupiter; Shiroi Kyotō; Shylock's Children
Osaka Elegy (Japanese: 浪華悲歌, Hepburn: Naniwa Erejī, lit. "Naniwa Elegy" [ a ] ) is a 1936 Japanese drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It forms a diptych with Mizoguchi's Sisters of the Gion [ 4 ] which shares much of the same cast and production team, and is considered an early masterpiece in the director's career.
Cruel Female Love Suicide (残酷おんな情死, Zankoku onna jōshi), also known as Midnight Virgin, is a 1970 Japanese film directed by Shōgorō Nishimura and starring Annu Mari and Sanae Ōhori. The major Japanese film studio Nikkatsu began to experiment with erotic-themed movies beginning in the late 1960s in an attempt to save the ...
In her book on Mikio Naruse, film historian Catherine Russell rated Dancing Girl, although a lesser film than the director's Ginza Cosmetics and Repast (both too made in 1951), an "important transitional film" which deployed some of the "flamboyant melodramatic devices" of his 1930s films in a post-war narrative.
Sad and Painful Search: Office Lady Essay (せつなく求めて OL編, Setsunaku motomete: OL hen) is a 2000 Japanese Pink film directed by Tarō Araki. It was chosen as Best Film of the year at the Pink Grand Prix ceremony. Tomohiro Okada was given the Best Actor award and cinematographer Shōji Shimizu was also awarded for his work on the ...
In their 1959 book The Japanese Film – Art & Industry, Donald Richie and Joseph L. Anderson described Epitome as "so excessively explicit that there were parts where one could scarcely bear to look at the screen", resuming that its attempted move towards naturalism was in parts "quite successful". [6]