世界奇妙物语2011

The Deserted Archipelago was my first independently directed and produced film. The film won the Grand Prix at the Nyon International Film Festival and garnered considerable attention both overseas and in Japan. The film follows an extremely simple story of a plain boy who matures into manhood while constantly manipulated by nuns. But woven into this narrative are my own experiences and the history of postwar Japan as well as a series of fantasies. The result is a multifaceted and multilayered objet, the birth of a newly sur-realistic filmmaking. On August 15th, the day the war ended, I was in the third year of primary school. That day, when the reality that I had known turned completely upside down, I was saddled with the trauma of no longer being able to believe in anything. Searching here and there for some kind of spiritual salvation, I finally found the existentialism of Albert Camus. From there, I was able to build up my own kind of existentialism and this film is best understood as based in that “Kanai Katsu Existentialism.” The film was praised by European film scholars Max Tessier and Tony Rayns and was screened as part of “Eiga: 25 Years of Japanese Film,” a special program at the 1984 Edinburgh International Film Festival.

A satirical comedy about a down on his luck publicist, who gets his lucky break when he discovers a man recently released from a mental health facility looks just like a method actor who refuses to leave his trailer. With the help of a powerful producer, the publicist helps the man become a huge star, even marrying his beautiful leading lady. Their adventures lead them to cross paths with drunken costars, irreverent unhoused action heroes, unpredictable directors, super agent, and power-mad moguls. Fame and fortune are not all they're cracked up to be, and the two men must fight their way back to the things that matter the most.

《吹哨人：美国体操队性侵丑闻追踪》跟随《印第安纳波利斯星报》记者的脚步，调查全国最著名的奥运机构之一，美国体操协会的性侵指控。两年后，一名奥运会的医生锒铛入狱，美国国会开始追责，数百名事件亲历者纷纷发声。这部令人既震惊又振奋的影片揭露了精英体操界残酷的潜规则，同时记录了向机构抗争的律师，以及最重要的 — 那些拒绝保持沉默的勇敢吹哨人。他们与体制抗争，并取得了胜利。

在一个平凡的小镇，在酒店底层工作的单身妈妈植村洋子（夏川結衣 饰）独自抚养着四个儿女：桃子、光生、美绪和花菜（芦田愛菜 饰）。最小的花菜顽皮可爱，是家中的开心果，不过她也常常觉得自己不受重视，受到委屈后便跑到隔壁的外公（小林稔侍 饰）、外婆（岩下志麻 饰）家里哭鼻子。不久，慈祥的外公去世，外婆的脸上时时挂着落寞的神情。花菜搬到隔壁居住，祖孙俩相依相守，从彼此的身上得到了幸福与快乐。时间倏忽而去，转眼花菜（北乃きい 饰）长大，小小的房子再也无法圈住她的脚步，而外婆则一如既往鼓励着她持续前行……本片根据植村花菜的同名原著改编。