The curtain rises on Sarasa Watanabe, a starry-eyed 5'10" student who hopes to perform as a male lead role in the all-female Kouka Acting Troupe. She forms a friendship with her new roommate, a former idol. Together, they’re in for the role of a lifetime.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba follows Tanjiro Kamado, a young boy who becomes a demon slayer after his family is slaughtered and his sister Nezuko is transformed into a demon. Tanjiro seeks to avenge his family and find a way to turn his sister back into a human. Along the way, he encounters powerful demons, formidable allies, and learns about the supernatural world of demon slaying.
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train follows the story of Tanjiro Kamado, a young demon slayer, and his companions as they embark on a dangerous mission aboard the mysterious Mugen Train. They must confront powerful demons and face their own fears in order to save humanity.
The world is in turmoil with the October Revolution of 1917, riots over the inflationary price of rice, and the military expedition to Siberia in 1918. But Shinsuke, a brothel owner, spends his days in the arms of geishas, paying little heed to the events happening around him.
In the Taisho period, a playwright named Kagero encounters a mysterious and ghostly woman who claims to be his long-lost lover from a past life. As Kagero becomes more involved with the woman, he starts to question his own sanity and reality. With elements of fantasy, romance, and thriller, 'Kagero-za' is a captivating movie set in an intriguing era of Japanese history.
Zigeunerweisen is a surreal and morbid drama that takes place in Taisho era Japan. It tells the story of a professor who becomes obsessed with a geisha, leading to an enduring friendship, murder suspicions, and surreal encounters. The film explores themes of wandering, aging, adultery, and death.
In the winter of 1922 (Taisho 11), a poet and social activist Nakahama Tetsu returned from a wandering journey to reunite with Furuta Daijiro and other comrades. They organized an anarchist organization “Guillotine Society” dreaming of revolution. For their ideal, they targeted the Prince of Wales who visited Japan, but failed in all their attempts. Matsuura Emile, a soba selling mysterious woman with all foreseeing eyes, comes and goes before them. In September of 1923 (Taisho 12), under martial law, anarchists Osugi Sakae and Ito Noe whom members of Guillotine Society adored were taken by Captain Amakasu of the military police, and killed. When they learned of the murder, members of Guillotine Society swore vengeance, and rose up… Then, transcending time, at a cafe, music rings loud….
Set in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan's Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story about fashionable people without impulse control. Much of the action centers on a popular woman writer, the real-life poet Akiko Yosano, and her experiences among the literati of early 20th century Japan. Because of her independent, anti-war and often erotic poetry, she was a lightning rod for revolutionaries and other extremists, many of whom were destined to glamorous, yet ultimately pointless, deaths. The closest parallels might be the Byron/Shelley group or the people drawn to the Beat Generation.
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.
An ambitious businessman knocks up his mistress with fraternal twins. He keeps the boy but sends his bodyguard to dispose of the mother and the girl. Years later…
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