Movies: Toshi Ichiyanagi

  • 1969
    Eros + Massacre

    Eros + Massacre (1969)

    Eros + Massacre

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    Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers on two 1960s students researching Osugi's theories....

    Eros + Massacre
  • 1962
    Pitfall

    Pitfall (1962)

    Pitfall

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    A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls....

    Pitfall
  • 1970
    Heroic Purgatory

    Heroic Purgatory (1970)

    Heroic Purgatory

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    Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man, pretending to be the father, comes to get her back; Ayu keeps telling him that Rikiya and Nanako are her...

    Heroic Purgatory
  • 1973
    Coup d'Etat

    Coup d'Etat (1973)

    Coup d'Etat

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    A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936....

    Coup d'Etat
  • 1971
    Confessions Among Actresses

    Confessions Among Actresses (1971)

    Confessions Among Actresses

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    In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid bare, and scenes from their lives are woven in and out of interviews with each of them. Each of them ...

    Confessions Among Actresses
  • 1984
    The Wangan Highway

    The Wangan Highway (1984)

    The Wangan Highway

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    Based on the novel of the same name by Yoshio Kataoka....

    The Wangan Highway
  • 1968
    Farewell to the Summer Light

    Farewell to the Summer Light (1968)

    Farewell to the Summer Light

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    A spontaneous romance blooms between Kawamura, a professor touring Europe, and Naoko, a married woman living in Paris, scarred by the Nagasaki atomic bombings. The two protagonists travel around Europe trying to find themselves....

    Farewell to the Summer Light
  • 1975
    Atman

    Atman (1975)

    Atman

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    ĀTMAN is a visual tour-de-force based on the idea of the subject at the centre of the circle created by camera positions (480 such positions). Shooting frame-by-frame the filmmaker set up an increasingly rapid circular motion. ĀTMAN is an early Buddh...

    Atman
  • 1965
    A Story Written with Water

    A Story Written with Water (1965)

    A Story Written with Water

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    Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the love to his mother....

    A Story Written with Water
  • 1986
    Saya: Perspective in Love

    Saya: Perspective in Love (1986)

    Saya: Perspective in Love

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    Erotic thriller about a porn photographer who has to deal with a psychopath....

    Saya: Perspective in Love
  • 1980
    Jun

    Jun (1980)

    Jun

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    Jun has come to Tokyo from his family home, an island which resembles a ship. He works in a machine shop and is attempting to develop a career as a cartoonist in his spare time. When he travels around the town by subway, he has grown into the habit o...

    Jun
  • 2011
    Hokaibito: Ina no Seigetsu

    Hokaibito: Ina no Seigetsu (2011)

    Hokaibito: Ina no Seigetsu

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    Part documentary, part fiction this film revolves around the life of the haiku poet Seigetsu Inoue who wandered Ina Valley for about 30 years from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji era....

    Hokaibito: Ina no Seigetsu
  • 1975
    Everything Visible Is Empty

    Everything Visible Is Empty (1975)

    Everything Visible Is Empty

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    There's more to picture than meets the eye in this journey into oriental metaphysical imagery. Starting (in a very Christian manner) with the Word, the film draws an explosion of visible forms, as if a sign of the shattering of shapes in the mundane ...

    Everything Visible Is Empty
  • 1981
    The Ondekoza

    The Ondekoza (1981)

    The Ondekoza

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    A documentary profiling a Japanese taiko drumming group based in the remote Sado Island, Japan. The film blurs the line between real-life documentary footage of the troupe's training and practice regimes, and staged performances of their varied music...

    The Ondekoza
  • 1963
    Closed Vagina

    Closed Vagina (1963)

    Closed Vagina

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    Adachi's follow-up to Bowl using the figure of a woman suffering from an unusual sexual aliment has often been taken as a controversial allegory for the political stalemate of the Leftist student movement after their impressive wave of massive fiery ...

    Closed Vagina
  • 1965
    Kachi Kachi Yama

    Kachi Kachi Yama (1965)

    Kachi Kachi Yama

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    Tadanori Yooko superb animation....

    Kachi Kachi Yama
  • 1972
    Expansion

    Expansion (1972)

    Expansion

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    Expansion remixes the images of Matsumoto’s Esctasis into an more colourful psychedelic short....

    Expansion
  • 1971
    Metastasis

    Metastasis (1971)

    Metastasis

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    Writes Matsumoto, "I used the Erekutoro Karapurosesu (Electro Color Processor), which is mainly used in the field of medicine and engineering, to create moving image textures Metastasis, I was interested in layering images of a simple object and its ...

    Metastasis
  • 1979
    Flux-Concert

    Flux-Concert (1979)

    Flux-Concert

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    On March 24, 1979, The Kitchen presented a two-part program dedicated to the work of various Fluxus artists. The programming began with the premiere of Alison Knowles’s “Natural Assemblages and the True Crow.” For the piece, Knowles engaged in a dial...

    Flux-Concert
  • 1970
    Why Not: A Serenade of Eschatological Ecology

    Why Not: A Serenade of Eschatological Ecology (1970)

    Why Not: A Serenade of Eschatological Ecology

    6.51970HD

    Why Not is hypnotic, compulsive and claustrophobic. It is bathed in a cold, pervasive eroticism, which, oblique and displaced at first, finally becomes explicit in one of the most bizarre masturbation sequences ever filmed. For almost two hours, we o...

    Why Not: A Serenade of Eschatological Ecology