Tomokazu Miura
1) Perfect days
Series
Criterion collection volume 1226
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
A perfect song that hits at just the right moment, the play of sunlight through leaves, a fleeting moment of human connection in a vast metropolis: the wonders of everyday life come into breathtaking focus in this profoundly moving film by Wim Wenders. In a radiant, Cannes-award-winning performance of few words but extraordinary expressiveness, Koji Yakusho plays a public-toilet cleaner in Tokyo whose rich inner world is gradually revealed through...
Publisher
Viz Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
日本語
Description
The Harunos are a rather unconventional, but happy and loving family. Eight-year-old Sachiko is bothered by her own giant-sized double, who hangs around sitting on buildings staring at her. Her older brother, Hajime, privately wrestles with raging hormones and a love-struck crush on a pretty new classmate. Mom struggles to come out of retirement as an animator and Dad is a professional hypnotist who occasionally plies his trade on his own family....
3) Outrage
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
日本語
Description
In a ruthless battle for power, several yakuza clans vie for the favor of their head family in the Japanese underworld. The rival bosses seek to rise through the ranks by scheming and making allegiances sworn over sake. Longtime yakuza Otomo has seen his kind go from elaborate body tattoos and severed fingertips to becoming important players on the stock market.
4) Typhoon club
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
日本語
Description
It follows an ensemble of junior high students in a provincial town, beset by a summery malaise as a typhoon looms. When the storm makes landfall, the teens find themselves holed up in their school unsupervised, while another classmate disappears alone on a harrowing trek to the big city, set adrift in a world suddenly unmoored, the students let loose their pent-up angst and burgeoning passions in a series of propulsive, phantasmic scenes, part apocalypse,...