A Chaos of Flowers (華の乱, Hana no ran), also known as The Rage of Love, is a 1988 Japanese film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. The film portrays the movements...

Yokohama Film Festival for Chōchin and at the 13th Hochi Film Award for A Chaos of Flowers, Hope and Pain and Wuthering Heights. Double Bed (1983) Lanterns on...

violence express a cynical critique of social conditions and genuine sympathy for those left out of Japan's postwar prosperity." He used a cinema verite-inspired...

Away') is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Spirited Away tells the story of Chihiro "Sen" Ogino, a ten-year-old...

was a Japanese actor. In Japan, he was best known for roles in action films and a variety of television series in the 1970s as well as a switch to a wider...

a multilingual production of Uncle Vanya while dealing with the death of his wife (Reika Kirishima). It is based on Haruki Murakami's short story of the...

Hyakuta, the film starts with a frame story set in 2004, where a Japanese man in his twenties learns that he is the grandson of a kamikaze military aviator...

Toei, becomes jealous of the number of close-ups his co-star Tachibana is getting as they are filming a samurai film. After a fan named Tomoko has Ginshiro...

that relies on shoplifting to cope with a life of poverty. Kore-eda wrote the screenplay contemplating what makes a family, inspired by reports on poverty...

finds only his empty armor. Additionally, young Iga ninja Kirimaru, a friend of Jubei, is narrowly saved by Shiro and his demons after his village is...

Prize, the Japan Academy Awards, and the Japanese Academy Awards, is a series of awards given annually since 1978 by the Japan Academy Film Prize Association...

mid-19th century Japan, a few years before the Meiji Restoration, it follows the life of Seibei Iguchi, a low-ranking samurai employed as a bureaucrat. Poor...

Visual Effects (L.B. Abbott and A.D. Flowers). The National Board of Review ranked it in its Top Ten Films of 1971. A 1994 survey at the USS Arizona Memorial...

totalitarian government. As a result, another class of ninth graders is kidnapped and sent to eliminate Nanahara within a limited time period of 72 hours. Director...

of magnitude less than the mass of 8 Flora), is on a collision course with Earth. The space program summons Commander Jack Rankin to take command of space...

Ichizoku no Inbō), is a 1978 Japanese historical martial arts period film directed and co-written by Kinji Fukasaku. The film is the first of two unrelated Fukasaku...

Thrill Jockey. The same year, Anderson appeared on Big Brave's album A Chaos of Flowers, providing guitar for the song "Canon: In Canon". Anderson's music...

seat. Black Lizard sends a note promising the return of Sanae in exchange for the Star of Egypt, a South African gem worth 120 million yen that is Iwase's...

Batoru Rowaiaru) is a 2000 Japanese action film directed by Kinji Fukasaku from a screenplay by Kenta Fukasaku, based on the 1999 novel of the same name by...

English-language remake of the same name. The film begins with a close-up of the inscription above the stage in the ballroom of the Blackpool Tower: "Bid...

planet of Jillucia, in the Andromeda galaxy, has been conquered by the steel-skinned warriors of the Gavanas Empire, who have turned the planet into a military...

role was in A Long Walk (2006). Mr. Ogata died of liver cancer on October 5, 2008, just days after finishing his role in the production of the Fuji TV...

"Day of Resurrection"), is a 1980 Japanese post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. Based on Sakyo Komatsu's 1964 novel of the...

is a Japanese actress and activist. She has won four Japan Academy Best Actress awards, more than any other actress, and has been called "one of the...

Legend of the Eight Samurai (里見八犬伝, Satomi Hakken-den) is a 1983 Japanese historical martial arts fantasy film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. The script is...

The Journalist (新聞記者, Shinbun Kisha) is a 2019 Japanese drama film loosely based on the 2017 book of the same name by Isoko Mochizuki, directed by Michihito...

No. Year Film Director 1 1988 A Chaos of Flowers Kinji Fukasaku 2 1989 Black Rain Shohei Imamura 3 1990 Childhood Days Masahiro Shinoda 4 1991 My Sons...

(1979) Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko (1979) – Zero Sawai The Geisha (1983) A Chaos of Flowers (1988) Edo Jō Tairan (1991) Kozure Ōkami: Sono Chiisaki Te ni (1993)...

generation's struggle to survive in the post-war chaos. The shaky camera technique has since become a trademark of the director. Toei producer Masao Sato remarked...

Match, is a 1973 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. It is the second film in a five-part series that Fukasaku made in a span of just two...