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Kazunao Sakaguchi

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8 titles

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TOCKA poster
NR

Shoji runs a store in a desolate town in northern Japan. After the death of his wife, he longs to end his life so that his daughter will receive his life insurance money. But suicide is not covered by his contract, so he seeks help and meets Saki, who is also suicidal. Yoshitaka Kamada raises profound questions about life, death, and the importance of humanity.

TOCKA

2023

The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine poster
6.2

In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and Tokachi, and an anarchist group called the Guillotine Society, spark an unlikely connection.

The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine

2018

Tokyo Elegy poster
3.6

Fugitive Jack is doing everything in his power to evade both the police and gangsters. Assuming he’s in the clear, he moves in with Keiko, a pornstar whose early life in an abusive family still haunts her.

Tokyo Elegy

1999

A Girl, She Is 100% poster
7.2

A man ran into a woman on a street. She was not attractive, but was a perfect girl for him. After missing the chance to talk to her, he contemplates on how he should have approached her.

A Girl, She Is 100%

1983

Artist of Fasting poster
4.8

A wordless man stages an unexplained hunger strike and the people surrounding him exploit his silence to further their own cause...

Artist of Fasting

2016

Obscene Songs of Lost People poster
2.0

Ryohei, a gay gangster, dreams of becoming a full-fledged gangster, even though he is bossed around by his elder brother Yamabe. One day, Yamabe accidentally kills Morishima, a member of the gang's leadership. Thinking that he will be killed by the gang if he continues like this, Yamabe takes Ryohei with him to an abandoned house deep in the mountains to dispose of Morishima's body...

Obscene Songs of Lost People

2001

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