Production

Takashi Nishimura

Japan

Acting credits

Behind the camera

20th Century Nostalgia poster
7.1

A young student believes that the spirit of an alien from another planet has gone back in time, taking over his body to infiltrate and study humanity in order to find the reasons why our civilization is doomed to future destruction. He replicates the spirit of another alien in a girl that he meets, and together they use their video cameras to document modern urban Japanese society.

20th Century Nostalgia

1997

March Comes In Like a Lion poster
6.6

Set in Tokyo, Ice brings her amnesiac older brother Haruo home from the hospital to care for him. He is reluctant to go, until Ice tells him that she is his lover. Since he has no memory of his sister Ice, he obliges her. How long until his memory returns?

March Comes In Like a Lion

1991

The Girl Who Picks Flowers and the Girl Who Kills Insects poster
7.0

Two girls, one from Germany, the other from Japan meet and become friends in London, but soon discover things aren't what they seem.

The Girl Who Picks Flowers and the Girl Who Kills Insects

2000

Rubber's Lover poster
6.4

After the explosive demise of their last subject, scientists must look for a replacement on whom to continue their bizarre experiments with brain-altering drugs.

Rubber's Lover

1996

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

謎のFLYING SAUCER 2

1999

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

How to Jiujitsu

1998

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

謎のFLYING SAUCER FAKE OR LOVE?

1998

Angel's Share poster
7.0

A strange duo, Minko and Hiroto, who believe themselves to be angels, throw out fashion massage leaflets called “Angel Dispatch” from the roof of a building on Christmas Day in order to save unfortunate people. The flyers were blown by the wind and fell into the city.

Angel's Share

1995

Extremely Beautiful Landscapes poster
NR

In the late 1960s, photographer Takuma Nakahira published the legendary photography magazine Provoke with Daido Moriyama. With this edgy writings and photographs, Nakahira rejected preexisting photographic expression. In 1977, an alcohol-induced coma resulted in a permanent partial memory loss. In the following years, with gradual recovery, Nakahira started photographing stray cats, homeless, and thatched roofs in the neighborhood near his home in a monomaniac manner. This is documentary is a portrait of the Nakahira's daily life. Directed by photographer Takashi Homma.

Extremely Beautiful Landscapes

2004

Bus poster
NR

A village in a different world that I do not know anywhere. There are five laws in the village, and if you break that rule you will be punished. The driver of the bus with the synonym of "Bengal's Tiger" attempts to escape from the village with two friends, but failed five times. By the instruction of the computer of "city", memory is erased as punishment. After that, the village steadily got dominated by the computer of the "city", and the driver of the bus who lost his memory kept living calmly while being watched by the lover. Meanwhile, a guerrilla group had been expecting the collapse of computer control.

Bus

1987

How Old Is the River? poster
7.8

Three brothers, their father missing and tensions boiling, gather at their rural summer house; soon enough, they're unexpectedly joined by a female cousin.

How Old Is the River?

1995

Bicycle Sighs poster
6.0

Shiro and Keita didn’t manage to enter university and are stuck in their hometown delivering newspapers. Shiro persists on finishing a film they started, but Keita is not very enthusiastic.

Bicycle Sighs

1990

A iMITATION interioR poster
NR

Futami is a 17-year-old high school girl. Her father was killed in the war, her mother is hospitalized due to illness, and she lives with her senile grandmother. As she spends her adolescence surrounded by this "great sadness," her friend runs away from home and comes to live with her. This is the first film of the "16mm Film Production Support Project" (now PFF Scholarship) which started in 1984.

A iMITATION interioR

1985

No artwork available
NR

A movie capturing the suburbs of Tokyo

A NEW HOMETOWN

1998