owlogue

The Idiot - Akira Kurosawa, 1951.

Excerpt from Pale Flower (1964)

Tadanori Yokoo on the set of Shinjuku Dorobō Nikki (1968).

The 10th year of Shōwa (1936) is a year of violent unrest. The country is torn between modernization and conservative forces. The power of the military is on the rise and a group of its members is planning an uprising that is directed at eliminating moderate politicians and officials of rival...

Kaigenrei - Yoshishige Yoshida, 1973

Kaigenrei - Yoshishige Yoshida, 1973

Boy (少年) - Nagisa Oshima, 1969

Boy (少年) - Nagisa Oshima, 1969

More images from this series can be seen here.

Boy is the story of a family of four surviving at the margins of society, unnoticed, almost forgotten. Travelling all across Japan and performing their con act, which consists in jumping in front of cars and frightening motorists into thinking they have hit and injured a member of the...