Toru Takemitsu Movies
- 2023

A Slippage in Five Movements
A Slippage in Five Movements02023HD
A visual accompaniment to Tōru Takemitsu's sonically sparse composition 'Corona for Pianist(s)'. Taking inspiration from the graphic score that...
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- 1966

Once a Rainy Day
Once a Rainy Day01966HD
Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.
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- 1965

With Beauty and Sorrow
With Beauty and Sorrow5.41965HD
When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel about it--reappears in her life, her pupil--and...
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- 1966

The Kii River
The Kii River81966HD
Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.
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- 1977

Flickering Flames
Flickering Flames101977HD
In the early hours of April 13th, a five year old hemophiliac child was kidnapped by someone from Tanemura General Hospital in Tokyo, Setagaya. Tokyo...
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- 1962

Atami Blues
Atami Blues6.51962HD
A young woman arrives at a resort and is soon pursued by a young man. Initially, he appears to be infatuated with her, but it becomes clear he simply...
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- 1964

Car Thieves
Car Thieves01964HD
Mixed-race children in Japan become involved in the petty theft of car parts.
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- 1967

Clouds at Sunset
Clouds at Sunset5.51967HD
A Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start over. When a young maid falls for him, he talks her...
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- 1963

She and He
She and He6.71963HD
As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life...
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- 1968

Two Hearts in the Rain
Two Hearts in the Rain01968HD
Love story of a working-class boy and girl.
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- 1969

Bullet Wound
Bullet Wound61969HD
Yuzo Kayama is an American-Japanese operative working for the US to uncover an arms deal between an American seller and Chinese communists, and to...
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- 1962

The Body
The Body6.51962HD
The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to her ending up as a prostitute.
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- 1981

Rennyo and His Mother
Rennyo and His Mother01981HD
Rennyo was the key figure responsible for the restoration of Shin Buddhism in Japan, in particular the Honganji lineage that had a slump in its...
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- 1964

Our Happiness Alone
Our Happiness Alone01964HD
Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder...
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- 1969

Kyoto
Kyoto01969HD
Documentary on the city of Kyoto, Japan. Topics include the Ryoanji Temple stone garden, a geisha residence, the Katsura Imperial Villa, and the Gion...
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- 1962

Human Zoo
Human Zoo31962HD
A montage of scenes that describe how people can be as bad as animals.
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- 1960

X (Batsu)
X (Batsu)01960HD
A man marks everything he encounters with an X, from telephone poles to fruit and books he fondles in markets to a woman he pursues who lies on the...
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- 1965

The Song of the Bwana Toshi
The Song of the Bwana Toshi01965HD
Traveling to Africa in a cultural exchange program, a young Japanese engineer discovers a world completely unlike the one he knows. His interaction...
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- 1965

The Last Judgment
The Last Judgment01965HD
Based on a crime novel called Heaven Ran Last, by American pulp fiction writer William P. McGivern.
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- 1995

Spiritual Voices
Spiritual Voices5.81995HD
In 1994, Alexander Sokurov accompanied Russian troops assigned to a frontier military post at the Tajikistan/Afghanistan border to film their...
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