Items Matching Tag 'Third Window Films'

Crime or Punishment?!? (DVD Details)
Ayame is an unsuccessful girl celebrity, who happens to take on the PR role of a "police chief for a day". It is the job of a campaign girl to smile and act as a police chief for one day. It should have been a simple job, however, the police station staff treat her like the real police chief and look to her for instructions, which makes Ayame feel perplexed. In addition, she runs into her ex-boy...

Adrift In Tokyo (DVD Details)
Leading a lazy life, Fumiya has been a university student for 8 years and owes money to loan sharks. One day, a man named Fukuhara comes to collect the loan, which Fumiya cannot pay. So Fukuhara makes a proposition: He will cancel the debt as long as Fumiya agrees to walk with him across Tokyo to the police station of Kasumigaseki, where he intends to turn himself in for a crime he deeply regrets....

Villain (DVD Details)
Yuichi (Satoshi Tsumabuki) is a construction worker who has lived his entire life in a dreary fishing village. With no girlfriend or friends, he spends his days working and looking after his grandparents, with no enjoyment in life other than his car. Meanwhile, Mitsuyo (Eri Fukatsu) also lives a monotonous life pacing between the men s clothing store where she works and the apartment where she...

Underwater Love (DVD Details)
Asuka works in a lakeside fish factory. She is just about to be married to her boss. One day, she encounters a Kappa, a water creature living in the lake and learns that it is the reincarnation of Aoki, her first love. What ensues is a zany spectacle of love, music and sex.

Sawako Decides (DVD Details)
Sawako has lived in Tokyo for five years, is working her fifth office job, and is dating her fifth boyfriend, who is also her boss at the office. Her life with Kenichi, her boyfriend, and his daughter from a previous marriage, Kayoko, feels like a "compromise," and she endures each day feeling distressed about her career and love life. One day, she receives word that her father, Tadao, who runs a...

Quirky Guys and Gals (DVD Details)
Quirky Guys and Gals (Sabi Otoko, Sabi Onna) ties together four stories of people searching for a spark in their lives. Yosuke Fujita (Fine, Totally Fine) leads off with “Cheer Girls,” an entertaining tale of a woman (Nanami Sakuraba) whose passion is to lead cheers—though not for sports teams. Rather, she finds common people and creates anthems to encourage them in everyday life. Tomoko...

Cold Fish (2010) (Blu-ray Details)
From the director of the critically acclaimed 'Love Exposure', comes the newest masterpiece from Sion Sono Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. His second wife, Taeko, does not get along with his daughter, Mitsuko, and this worries him. One day Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a grocery store. There they meet a friendly man named Murata, who helps to settle things between Mitsuko and the store...

Confessions (Blu-ray Details)
Takako Matsu (K-20: Legend Of The Mask) plays a middle-school teacher whose four-year-old daughter is found dead. Shattered, she finally returns to her classroom only to become convinced that two of her students were responsible for her daughter's murder. No one believes her, and she may very well be wrong, but she decides, nevertheless, that it's time to take her revenge. What happens next is all-...

Memories Of Matsuko (Blu-ray Details)
When the body of a female tramp is found in the park, her nephew, Shou, is called upon to clean out her abandoned apartment. He unwittingly embarks upon a surprising journey through the extraordinary life of his aunt, Matsuko, a starry-eyed female searching for her prince. A collision of visually stunning hues and Bob Fosse-like musical set pieces, this Amelie-esque fairytale gracefully glides...

Confessions Of A Dog (2 Discs) (DVD Details)
Explore Gen Takahashi's epic 3-hour exposé on the Japanese law enforcement. Takeda is an honest police officer, father and husband, but after he's promoted to detective he quickly becomes embroiled in dirty back room dealings, blackmail, and corruption that goes right to the top of the force. Meanwhile, investigator Kusama must decide whether he should shake the foundations of Japanese law...

Fish Story (DVD Details)
Based on a novel by Kotaro Isaka, Fish Story weaves together several seemingly separate storylines taking place at different points in time over a 37-year span to explain how a little-known punk rock song can save the world. In 1975, an unpopular Japanese punk band called "Gekirin" (Wrath) starts work on their 3rd album. Unfortunately the band is a little ahead of its time; punk won't be...

Kakera: A Piece Of Our Life (DVD Details)
Based on the best-selling manga 'Love Vibes' by Erika Sakurazawa and featuring a soundtrack by James Iha, former guitarist of Smashing Pumpkins, the debut feature of Momoko Andô is a delicately-nuanced portrait of two very different women. Haru, a college student, is frustrated by the lack of any real spark between her and her slobbish and indifferent boyfriend, who only seems to be interested...

Instant Swamp (DVD Details)
Haname is a lively young journalist blessed with an exceedingly vivid imagination, working for a woman's magazine on the brink of bankruptcy. Her daily diet of gloopy health drinks are't enough to shield her from what she perceives as a particularly severe run of bad luck, which all began on her eighth birthday when her father stormed out of the house. To get even, she threw everything he ever...

Peppermint Candy (DVD Details)
Shown in reverse chronological order, Peppermint Candy is the tale of a solitary man's painful growth in life set against the back drop of nearly three decades of Korean history. A distraught and weathered man, Yong-ho stands on the rails of a train track staring oncoming death in the face. Through divided sequences we retrace the steps that brought him to this place and this state of mind. From...

Kamikaze Girls: Special Edition (2 discs) (DVD Details)
Momoko Ryugasaki (Kyoko Fukada) is a bit of an oddball 17-year-old, who is fascinated by life in 18th century Versailles. She wears her version of what she thinks people wore there at that time and dreams of being able to get away from her boring life. Momoko's father (Hiroyuki Miyasako) makes his living selling counterfeit brand-name clothes, but when he gets on the wrong side of some bad people,...

Lala Pipo (DVD Details)
Written by Tetsuya Nakashima, the award-winning writer-director of 'Kamikaze Girls' and 'Memories Of Matsuko', and starring Yuri Nakamura (The Grudge: Girl In Black; Sakuran), Hiroki Narimiya (Sakuran) and Mari Hamada (Memories Of Matsuko), LALA PIPO, the directorial debut of Masayuki Miyano, takes a quirky and comedic trawl through the gutters of the Japanese porn industry in the company of six...

Love Exposure (DVD Details)
Having grown up in a devout Christian family, Yu (Takahiro Nishijima) has always been a well-behaved kid. After his mother dies, his priest father is seduced by a woman who breaks his heart, causing him to torment Yu by forcing him to confess his sins on a daily basis. Of course, being a fairly normal kid, Yu has no legitimate sins to confess. To appease his increasingly demanding father, Yu is...

No. 3 (DVD Details)
A parody of hardboiled gangster films, the Korean action comedy No. 3 follows the hilarious misadventures of bumbling mobster Tae-Ju (Han Suk-Kyu). Starting out as a lowly henchman for the powerful Do Ka Gang, Tae-Ju is promoted to "Gangster No. 3" after he inadvertently saves the life of his boss during an assassination attempt. But Tae-Ju is unhappy with the third-rate position and conspires to...

Oasis (DVD Details)
Combining fantasy with stark realism, Lee Chang-Dong's (Peppermint Candy, Secret Sunshine) magnificent film is both beautiful and tragic as it explores the theory issue of how people with disabilities are marginalised. Stars Sol Kyung-Gu and Moon So-Ri give their finest performances as the mentally ill ex-con Jong-Do (Sol) who falls for a young woman with cerebral palsy (Moon), would-be lovers who...

Dasepo Naughty Girls (DVD Details)
Based on the popular Internet novel, "Multi-Cell Girl", the film takes place in "No-Use High School", a school renowned for its sexual aberrations. The student body is comprised of sexually ambiguous teenagers, and the student president and vice-president flaunt their taste for S&M. Independent study and supplementary classes are done on homosexuality and transgenderism, and teachers and...

Kick the Moon (DVD Details)
Kick the Moon is about two high school students from a small-city high-school. One is a fighter who was involved in a legendary street-fight with a rival school. The other is a geeky wimp who loves to study and was one of the only students not to participate in the fight. Years later, the punk has grown to be a teacher in the high-school he attended and the nerd has become a media underboss and...

Fine, Totally Fine (DVD Details)
Teruo, the eldest son of a used bookstore owner has a dream: to build the world scariest haunted house. About to reach his 30th birthday, Teruo is still idling away his life. One day, through the introduction of childhood friend Hisanobu, an extremely clumsy painter/artist comes to work at the bookstore. Meet Akari. A cute, attractive girl that both Teruo and Hisanobu soon fall for. This small...

Funuke, Show Some Love, You Losers! (DVD Details)
Funuke, Show Some Love, You Losers! is the story of a countryside family struggle. The movie begins with both parents dying in a car accident. The elder sister (Eriko Sato) comes back home from Tokyo because they are no longer able to send her money for acting school. The other two members of the family are the little sister (Aimi Satsukawa), an asthma-stricken aspiring manga writer and older...

Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers (DVD Details)
Suzume Katakura is an ordinary housewife. Her husband has been sent overseas on business, and although he phones her regularly, he is more concerned with the health and welfare of his pet turtle. The days pass monotonously, it is as though no one pays her any attention, not even her husband. The ordinariness of he life is interrupted one day when she spots a flyer in a stairway advertising for...

The President's Last Bang (DVD Details)
Though outwardly cynical, Korean CIA chief Kim secretly nurtures a personal disgust with his dissolute president's embarrassing appetites and impatience with his dissent-mired nation. During yet another banquet with President Park, the chief executive's corrupt top advisors and two wary party girls, Kim impulsively improvises a conspiracy that will change the course of world politics. When Kim and...

Kamikaze Girls (DVD Details)
Meet Momoko (Kyoko Fukada from The Ring 2 and Dolls), a self-absorbed dreamer who fantasizes about fleeing her backcountry home and living life in 18th century Versailles. When she unexpectedly meets a rebellious Ichigo (Anna Tsuchiya from Dororo and Sakuran), a rough-and-tumble biker chick, the two misfits from a unique friendship - together, nothing can stop them! Born from the pages of...

Memories Of Matsuko (DVD Details)
When the body of a female tramp is found in the park, her nephew, Shou, is called upon to clean out her abandoned apartment. He unwittingly embarks upon a surprising journey through the extraordinary life of his aunt, Matsuko, a starry-eyed female searching for her prince. A collision of visually stunning hues and Bob Fosse-like musical set pieces, this Amelie-esque fairytale gracefully glides...