September 18, 2023

Directors Company - The 80's Japanese Production Company

Third Window Films are happy present the start of a series focusing on the amazing 80's Japanese production company, the DIRECTOR'S COMPANY! The first 3 releases: Kiyoshi Kurosawa's The Guard from Underground (地獄の警備員 ) - Sept 25 Before becoming one of Japan’s most well-known horror directors through films like Cure, Pulse and Creepy, Kiyoshi Kurosawa started off his career in horror with 1992’s The Guard from Underground, the final film of the ‘Directors Company’. Kiyoshi Kurosawa here fashions a dark tale that is both a sharp satire of corporate life and a B-movie thriller. A former sumo wrestler now working...

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September 16, 2023

Kamikaze Girls Blowing up your TV screen

Based upon a cult Japanese novel by Takemoto Novala. Momoko, a 17 year old living in the countryside dreams of being an 'Innocent Lolita', a sub-culture popular amongst Japanese teens. At the shop 'Baby . the Stars Shine Bright' she meets a biker-chick named Ichiko. An unlikely friendship forms and in a switch of styles Momoko comes to the aid of Ichiko when she is threatened by members of the gang she wants to leave. “Kamikaze Girls” won Best Picture and Best Director at the 27th Yokohama Movie Awards, and its two lead actresses, J-pop stars Kyoko Fukuda and Anna...

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September 14, 2023