Movies: Taishō period

  • 1980
    Zigeunerweisen

    Zigeunerweisen (1980)

    Zigeunerweisen

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    A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways....

    Zigeunerweisen
  • 1981
    Kagero-za

    Kagero-za (1981)

    Kagero-za

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    A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife....

    Kagero-za
  • 1973
    Naked Rashomon

    Naked Rashomon (1973)

    Naked Rashomon

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    An ambitious businessman knocks up his mistress with fraternal twins. He keeps the boy but sends his bodyguard to dispose of the mother and the girl. Years later…...

    Naked Rashomon
  • 2018
    The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine

    The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine (2018)

    The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine

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    In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and Tokachi, and an anarchist group called the Guillotine Society, spark an unlikely connection....

    The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine
  • 2014
    Sturm und Drang

    Sturm und Drang (2014)

    Sturm und Drang

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    In the winter of 1922 (Taisho 11), a poet and social activist Nakahama Tetsu returned from a wandering journey to reunite with Furuta Daijiro and other comrades. They organized an anarchist organization “Guillotine Society” dreaming of revolution. Fo...

    Sturm und Drang