Art Theatre Guild Movies
- 1973
Aesthetics of a Bullet
Aesthetics of a Bullet71973HD
A small time crook, who sells rabbits for a living frequently gets him into trouble with loan sharks and the yakuza. He dreams of becoming a...
- 1968
Death by Hanging
Death by Hanging7.3921968HD
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.
- 1969
Funeral Parade of Roses
Funeral Parade of Roses7.5191969HD
In late 60s Tokyo, Eddie, a young drag queen, is the favourite of Gonda, the owner of the bar where she works. This relationship provokes the...
- 1983
The Family Game
The Family Game6.6191983HD
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...
- 1974
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
Pastoral: To Die in the Country7.4841974HD
A director faces creative block while working on his latest film - a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.
- 1985
Typhoon Club
Typhoon Club6.5611985HD
Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the five-day...
- 1980
Zigeunerweisen
Zigeunerweisen6.5491980HD
A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in...
- 1971
Demons
Demons7.71971HD
Gengobe Satsuma, an exiled samurai cast out as an Asano clan retainer is given a second chance to join his brothers in arms to become the 48th Ronin...
- 1976
The Youth Killer
The Youth Killer6.5331976HD
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,...
- 1984
Deathmask
Deathmask4.61984HD
Haunted by the drowning death of his own daughter, a police investigator embarks on an obsessive 10-year hunt for the identity of a dead boy, to the...
- 1971
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets7.31971HD
Conditions have been better for the nameless protagonist: his grandmother is a shoplifter and his war criminal father and sister have an unhealthy,...
- 1971
The Ceremony
The Ceremony71971HD
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional...
- 1984
The Crazy Family
The Crazy Family6.51984HD
The Kobayashi family finally get the chance to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment in favour of the suburban house of their dreams. But...
- 1972
Dear Summer Sister
Dear Summer Sister4.31972HD
Sunaoko come to Okinawa to find his brother Tsuruo. Her searching is not very painless because it tears up old wounds in complicated relationships,...
- 1969
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief4.6461969HD
In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.
- 1981
Distant Thunder
Distant Thunder6.81981HD
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...
- 1970
This Transient Life
This Transient Life7.451970HD
Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an...
- 1969
Double Suicide
Double Suicide6.91969HD
Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan....
- 1972
Ecstasy of the Angels
Ecstasy of the Angels5.51972HD
A militant revolutionary group is torn apart by betrayal as its members descend into paranoia and sexual decadence.
- 1982
Tattoo
Tattoo51982HD
An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.