JAPANESE FILMS SEEN

An anthology of various tales told in various styles with robots being the one common element among them.

1987 film

1988 film by Jūzō Itami

In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.

Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.

A talk show hostess takes a camera crew out to an abandoned factory to investigate a purported snuff film that was made there. As she gets closer to the truth, she and her friends are subjected to a brutal nightmare.

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.

1989 film by Shōhei Imamura

1989 film directed by Shinya Tsukamoto

After the previous Godzilla attack, a miniature arms race ensues to collect his cells. Concerned over Godzilla's possible return, the Japanese government uses the cells to create a new bio-weapon, ANEB (Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria). They seeks the aid of geneticist Genshiro Shiragami, who's experiments result in a new mutation.

A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.

"Do not toy with the supernatural." Two stories of the consequences that descend upon humans who venture beyond the safe confines of their ordinary worlds.

A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.

讲述了从古代开始一直与妖魔战斗的魔猎人·魔物猎人的第108代女高中生真野妖子的恋爱与战斗的故事。虽然汲取了80年代以后作为美少女作品的一种类型固定下来的“拿着剑战斗的女主角”的潮流，但与偏重于比基尼艺术象征的西式幻想路线的既存作品划清界限，穿着旗袍的妖子的服装设计备受瞩目。另外，变身时的前口上和让丘蒂哈尼感觉像的变身途中的裸体场面成为系列的经典。

这是一部从企划当初开始就设想了动画、游戏等多种类展开的媒体混合展开黎明期的作品。另外，各媒体的世界观和设定等几乎看不到共同点，妖子以外的正规角色和妖子的性格也不同，这也是其最大的特征。

A wind has swept the Earth taking all the memories from everyone. No one knows who they are, how to speak, or how to use the tools of modern civilization. Two years later, a young man who has been re-educated travels across America on a mysterious journey.

Kayoko is a young girl in 1940, just starting first grade. Nothing can prepare her for 1945, and the bleak times that are soon to come.

Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.

In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.

Story of Kyoto: its history, culture, as well as the role it has played in the director's life and the life of his mother.

An elementary school in Japan begins an experimental program that frames the students' curriculum around one single project: the raising of a calf from adolescence to adulthood. Through their work with the calf, the students learn about math, biology, nutrition and numerous other subjects. But after multiple years of investing energy and emotion into their beloved pet, the students begin to realize that the final days of their project may provide them with the hardest and most important lesson of all.