Aichi Arts Center Popular Movie

This faux-documentary follows a butoh master, a fashion designer, and a filmmaker racing against time to create art and help a young girl in love.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yukiko Sawada

Aki and Naoko are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. Immersed in her family life, Naoko now has a husband and daughter; Aki, on the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Asami Shibuya

Cenotes—sources of water that in ancient Mayan civilization were said to connect the real world and the afterlife. The past and present of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Araceli del Rosario Chulim Tun

A young Japanese woman named Eri is intelligent and promising, but remains mired in depression and alienation. She wanders life like a ghost,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Oyamada

A young woman works as a waitress in a diner. Her relationship with her boyfriend is unfulfilling and to further complicate things she is obsessed...

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Cast: Hiroko Akune

Kidlat Tahimik, a director and performer, sought to recreate relations between the body and filmed image seen through "Asian eyes." This...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kawayan de Guia

The 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami destroyed large parts of the small town of Rikuzentakata. Here, Hiromi ABE hosts a radio show in which she...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hiromi Abe