Art Theatre Guild Movies

In a Japanese colony, children overthrow their parental guardians and attempt to form a new society. Their plan spirals out of control and they are so...

A metaphysical mystery involving a university student's camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide.

A rebel youth joins a duo of entertainers only able to communicate by gesturing; when the female performer is suddenly abducted, he and Takeru must ta...

Tadao decides to comes back from Tokyo to live in his home town, in the countryside. He stays at his parents place and finds a job, repairing transist...

A student travels back to Kobe for the summer. Once there, he meets his friend Rat, hangs on the usual place, listening to the Beach Boys and meets a...

Following a stint in reform school, Ryu (Shinsuke Shimada) returns to his home, the Minami area of Osaka, accompanied by his new friend Ko (Takeshi Ma...

This biopic is centered on New Year's Day of 1894, when Kitamura is recovering from a suicide attempt. Japan is then under the spell of fervent patrio...

A young girl is being asked about a man with whom she was keeping company, as her grandmother plays a lament on a shamisen. Then the focus changes to...

The story takes place during the end of the Pacific War and the aftermath period and it focuses on Mizoguchi, who is the son of a Buddhist Priest. Whe...

Bakyo is a talented but unsuccessful rakugo artist. The very successful Rokyu wants to take Bakyo under his wings, but Bakyo refuses, claiming that Ro...

Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss.

The man who lives in the past and the woman who abandoned a past. They were lovers 10 years ago, and had met again in Paris.

Ryo once rode with a biker gang; ever since his friend Tetsuji died riding in September, he's retired from biking, trying to forget the past.

A young man gets thrown into detention after an episode of sexual assault; he soon meets several impostors in the same situation.

The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, exams, on field training, his commitment as a pro-r...

Bored by the emptiness of everyday life, four students gather to play dangerous games in an apartment.

Paper-Scissor-Rock wars draws an episode where the two generals portray the Second World War, mostly through the rock-scissors-bag, but also by some a...

Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a...

Set in 13th century Kyoto, where the Imperial court is under control of the clergy. Shijo was a peasant girl sold to a powerful daima as a concubine....

A man sets out to search for his brother among the survivors of Hiroshima after an anonymous letter.