Art Theatre Guild Filmes

Identity and integrity are discussed in connection with a tour of rock band Carol.

Isamu, a star athlete in high school, becomes a race cyclist. He wins his debut races, but soon his opponents see through his lack of strategy and...

A small time crook who sells rabbits for a living frequently gets himself into trouble with loan sharks and the yakuza. He dreams of becoming a...

The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history.

A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.

When a man chases down his stolen movie camera, the thief commits suicide by jumping off a building. But after the police take the camera as...

Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend,...

In 1960s Tokyo, Gonda owns a bar in which the gay, cross-dresser, and trans scenes meet. Gonda is in a relationship with the madam of the bar, Leda....

Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day period...

An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense...

A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural...

A sendup of the stereotypical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a...

A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to...

A woman believing to be a legendary immortal nun attracts people looking for answers to their life struggles.

9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies...

A couple of abalone divers has to confront brutal investors setting foot in their coastline.

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

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

After noticing in the news there was a fire in an old canal town, Eguchi recalls visiting there a decade ago as a university student.

A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles.