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...

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...

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.

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

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

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...

Tells the story of the samurai Gengobe, who seeks revenge after falling prey to the schemes of a geisha and her husband.

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,...

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

A militant revolutionary group is torn apart by betrayal as its members descend into paranoia and sexual decadence.

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

Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan....

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...

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...

Third is an aimless young man who hangs around with a couple of girls who are amateur hookers. One day, while acting as their pimp, he gets into a...

A woman and her bridegroom are found murdered in their bed the day after their wedding. It had snowed overnight and the killer left no tracks. It is...