Hiroshi Inoue

A leading postwar Japanese film critic and theorist who co-founded the seminal film magazine Eiga Hihyo (Film Criticism) in 1957, Eizo Yamagiwa made his directorial debut with this independent feature—long thought lost until a negative was recently discovered—about a group of idle bourgeois students known as the “Roppongi Tribe” (Roppongi zoku). Depicting the resignation and nihilism of the postwar generation in the years following the Anpo Treaty conflicts through a coming-of-age narrative, Yamagiwa offers sharp criticism of the prevalent characterizations of Japan's new youth offered by Nikkatsu's taiyozoku (“Sun Tribe”) films and the New Wave at large.

A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.

In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure years of tribulations until he can return.

Il y a 15 ans, Hadlar, le Roi du Mal, qui terrorisait le monde avec ses hordes de monstres, a été vaincu par un grand héros. Libérés de ses maléfices, les monstres ont recommencé à vivre discrètement sur une petite île des mers du Sud, l'île de Dermline. C'est sur cette île que Daï(Fly) a été élevé, par son grand-père adoptif Brass. Daï(Fly), un jeune garçon de 12 ans, rêve de devenir un héros et de protéger l'île, alors que son grand-père, un sage incube d'environ 180 ans, veut à tout prix qu'il soit mage. Mais Daï(Fly) n'est pas doué pour la magie...