Shinji Sômai

The movie takes place in the five-day period before, during and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which five of the students ...

In the mid-1970s, a small group of friends are living in a Japanese town near an American air force base, their lives revolve around sex, drugs ...

This dazzling portrait of an orphaned girl at several stages of her life, from childhood to adulthood, opens with one of the most famous long ...

In this 50-minute avant-garde film based on a story by the surrealist writer Kyoka Izumi, director Shuji Terayama uses the pretext of a young ...

A high-school teacher (Kenji Sawada) builds an atomic bomb to hold Tokyo hostage, then cannot decide what he wants. Release: The Man Who Stole ...

A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in ...

A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend’s father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the father to teach him the ...

A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his ...

In Somai’s final film, an alcoholic civil servant wakes up under a cherry tree in Tokyo next to a bar hostess with whom he’s ...

Three high-school students tangle with indulgent yakuza and lackadaisical police as they set out in search of the class bully, who has been ...

A hulking man from the country pursues his beloved to the underworld of Tokyo nightclubs, where he finds work as a sideshow wrestler and becomes ...

A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership. This mixture of deadpan ...

A pampered young model is killed in a traffic accident. Given the chance to return to earth, she becomes involved with the advertising executive ...

Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, a girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity. Release: Moving ...

After witnessing the rape of his wife, a man’s mind snaps and he attacks a prostitute. Two years later, the man and the prostitute meet by ...

Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his ...

Aspiring to be admitted to a good university and to become a lawyer, Tasiro Yuusuke, a tenth-grader from Kyushu, enrols in a prestigious high ...