Films & Shows from Art Theatre Guild
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Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974)
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A director faces creative block while working on his latest film - a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.
Himiko (1974)
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The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history.
Coup d'Etat (1973)
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A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.
The Wanderers (1973)
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Follows the fluctuating fortunes of three ronin in feudal Japan who wander from castle to castle, selling their services to whichever lord will fill their rice bowls. Though they use the servants' entrance, they still feel themselves bound by the samurai code of Bushido; and this tension leads to tragedy.
Ecstasy of the Angels (1972)
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A militant revolutionary group is torn apart by betrayal as its members descend into paranoia and sexual decadence.
Poem (1972)
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The ascetic houseboy of a Japanese lawyer bears witness to the secretive sexual relationship between the lawyer's assistant and the maid, the lawyer's wife's sexual dissatisfaction, and the arrival of the lawyer's brother, who has a plan for the family's land and property.
Mandala (1971)
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Two university students from Kyoto decide to swap partners and spend the night in an isolated motel. However, one of the couples is attacked. Desperate for answers, they search for the attackers and come across a cult that promotes sexual freedom.
Lost Lovers (1971)
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A rebel youth joins a duo of entertainers only able to communicate by gesturing; when the female performer is suddenly abducted, he and Takeru must take action.
Demons (1971)
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Tells the story of the samurai Gengobe, who seeks revenge after falling prey to the schemes of a geisha and her husband.
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971)
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An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense familial dysfunction, psychosexual alienation, and existentialist malaise.
Evil Spirits of Japan (1970)
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Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. When they meet, they are surprised how identical they look.
This Transient Life (1970)
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Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.
Heroic Purgatory (1970)
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Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man, pretending to be the father, comes to get her back; Ayu keeps telling him that Rikiya and Nanako are her parents. Through this disruption, Rikiya suddenly starts remembering his youth as a revolutionary.
Boy (1969)
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A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles.
Double Suicide (1969)
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Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, even foregoing other customers while Jihei schemes to somehow buy her freedom. His efforts yield ruinous consequences for his business and his family life, and Koharu is meanwhile purchased by another client.
Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
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In 1960s Tokyo, Gonda owns a bar in which the gay, cross-dresser, and trans scenes meet. Gonda is in a relationship with the madam of the bar, Leda. As the younger Eddie starts a passionate affair with Gonda, she ignites the jealousy of Leda, unaware of another kind of history between them.
Death by Hanging (1968)
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A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.
A Man Vanishes (1967)
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A Man Vanishes examines the concept of Johatsu, tackling the phenomenon of people missing in Japan over the years. It picks one such person from the list, someone who had seemed to disappear from the face of the earth due to embezzlement from his company, and the filmmakers begin an investigative documentary into the reasons behind and attempt at tracking him down.