Seiji Miyaguchi

In this documentary, filmmaker Hiroshi Teshigahara profiles Spanish architect Antonio Gaudi. Much of Gaudi's work pays homage to the Catalan art of the Middle Ages -- Gaudi being a Catalan himself -- and so Teshigahara pays careful attention to the historical context of the artist's most renowned works. And because Gaudi's body of work is so vast, Teshigahara forgoes the artist's ceramic work and instead spotlights his architectural and sculptural designs.

A boy meets the famous Lemuel Gulliver and joins him on a journey to outer space, where they find a civilization that is threatened by evil robots.

Japanese villagers hire a team of traveling samurai to defend them against a bandit attack.

This haunting, kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year must be carried to the summit of Mount Narayama and left there to die. The sacrificial elder at the center of the tale is Orin (Kinuyo Tanaka), a dignified and dutiful woman who spends her dwindling days securing the happiness of her loyal widowed son with a respectable new wife. Filmed almost entirely on cunningly designed studio sets, in brilliant color and widescreen, The Ballad of Narayama is a stylish and vividly formal work from Japan’s cinematic golden age, directed by the dynamic Keisuke Kinoshita.