Ken Ogata

In a Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a mountain to die...

Iwao Enokizu, a remorseless thief and killer from a devout Catholic family, goes on a 78-day killing spree while fleeing from the police.

November 25, 1970. Yukio Mishima, the acclaimed Japanese author, faces his final day. Meanwhile, interrupting flashbacks intertwine Mishima’s past with scenes from his works, revealing the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted an impossible harmony between self, art, and society.

Takechiyo and seven accompanying samurais find themselves in constant battle after Takechiyo's father, the Shogun, orders his assassination.

Throughout the 1980s, Shohei Imamura (The Pornographers, Profound Desires of the Gods), a leading figure of the Japanese New Wave era of the 1960s, cemented his international reputation as one of the most important directors of his generation with a series of films that all competed at Cannes to great critical acclaim. Making its HD debut, Zegen (1987) takes a satirical look at Japan's pre-war colonial expansion through the unscrupulous eyes of its flesh-peddler antihero as he establishes a prostitution enterprise across Southeast Asia. This work epitomises the director's almost documentary style of filmmaking, exposing the vulgar yet vibrant and instinctive underbelly of Japanese society through a sympathetic focus on peasants, prostitutes, criminal lowlife and other marginalised figures to explore the schism between the country's timeless pre-modern traditions and the modern face it projects to the world.

Bhalobasa-O-Andhakar is a 1992 Indian Bengali film, directed by Dipranjan Bose and produced by Bhalobasa-O-Andhakar Roy. The film stars Sanchita Bose, Kushal Chakraborty and Satya Banerjee in lead roles. Music of the film was composed by Goutam Chatterjee.

Beautiful to behold and impossible to forget, THE PILLOW BOOK is auteur Peter Greenaway's erotically-charged drama about love, death, revenge and the indelible nature of our earliest memories. Each year on her birthday, Nagiko (Vivian Wu) would became her father's canvas, as he painted the creation myth in elaborate, elegant calligraphy on her body. Years later, she continues the practice with a succession of lovers, including a bisexual translator (Ewan McGregor) who becomes a pawn in an escalating game of vengeance against her beloved father's exploitative publisher. Official Selection - Cannes Film Festival.