Kikuchi is not a man particularly brilliant or outgoing, but anyway he has deep thoughts. During the day he works in a big launderette, where he mechanically fills and empties the washing machines. In the evenings, he works in a supermarket. He falls in love with a girl who works as a cashier there, but he is too shy to speak to her. When he finds out that his new colleague ...
Shinji e Masaru sono due perdigiorno: girano in bicicletta, fanno scherzi ai professori, ricattano i compagni, passano il tempo bevendo e fumando in un bar. Dopo aver lasciato la scuola i due ragazzi cercano il successo e il riscatto, diventando uno un pugile, l'altro un membro di una gang della Yakuza. Un film di Kitano con molti elementi autobiografici, in cui le vite ...
The unsettling lives of a group of teenagers from California. The film opens with the suicide of Ken Park, who shoots himself in the head with a handgun to avoid becoming a father. Claude fends off physical and emotional abuse from his alcoholic father, who detests him for being insufficiently masculine. Peaches' father, an extremely religious man, catches her and her boyfri...
In occasion of the third centenary of the city of Rochefort, a fair is coming to the town square. The twin sisters Delphine and Solange Garnier won't miss the chance to find the man of their dreams. The twins' mother, Yvonne, owns a café in the center of town, and pines for a fiancé she left impulsively ten years before in order to focus on her work in the café. A well made...
Jimmy is 18 years old and lives in a sleepy town in Sardinia. He doesn't know what to do with his life, but one thing he knows is that he will not work in the oil refinery of his town. He wants to leave. In the attempt to find enough money to leave for Mexico, he will find himself breaking laws and living recklessly. It is then that the doors of the juvenile prison will swi...
During a scorching hot summer, a man prepares an erotic animated film. More than once, he gives a conspiratorial look at the camera that is filming him. A story develops, parallel to the story he is telling.
In 1968 Sybilla is eighteen years old. The story takes place in Sofia, Bulgaria, during a time of great political and social fights, rebellion and sexual revolution. Amidst the political upheaval, she is sent to a girls' re-education camp when she is caught using drugs. After a failed affair and an abortion, Sybilla's drug use lands her in a mental clinic where she resists e...
Yoshimoto Ogata, a pornographer, lives with his wife Haru, cursed by the restless spirit of her dead first husband, and her two children. His step-son, Koichi, wants to go to university and her step-daughter, Keiko, is entering adolescence. He lusts after his step-daughter and Koichi keeps provoking him and threatening to abandon the family. Subu fears that these stormy fami...
A writer moves into a ground floor apartment with the hope of finding some peace to write his new book. He will soon find out why the previous tenants abandoned the apartment.
The famous orchestra conductor Sir Alfred De Carter returns to New York after a long journey. His brother-in-law delivers him a report showing that his wife Daphne has betrayed him with his young secretary. During one of his concerts, Alfred begins planning three different ways of solving the problem - uxoricide, forgiveness, duel - setting each to a different classic...
