Masato Sakai

A hangout next to the ‘boiler room’ in the basement, offstage at a theatre in Osaka. The comedians who visit there and the people who ...

Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada’s coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as ...

Two women so totally different – in their status, their perspectives, the things they had…everything.

Follows the final days of the shogunate and Shinsengumi’s Vice-Comander Hijikata Toshizo along with his fellow anti-imperialist group.

Army Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda (Nakamura Shido) has been fighting guerrilla warfare in the jungles of Lubang Island in the Philippines with ...

Miyo Hanayama works as a home care nurse, supporting the home care of patients who are close to death. Shigeaki Noguchi complains that his wife ...

Wakabayashi is a poor office worker at a housing company. His grades have not improved recently and he has no girlfriend to spend his holidays ...

Adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short stories, The Elephant Vanishes reveals a strange and beautiful world lurking beneath the surface of ...

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on the the low pay he receives from his small ...

Sonoko takes illegally dumped rubbish home and arranges it in her room, as if she is looking for something. One day, Satoshi is accidentally ...

The protagonist is a woman (Hiroko Yakushimaru) who is a sales manager at the Japanese branch of a famous French shoe brand. The protagonist is ...

Set in a (fictional) student dormitory at Tokyo Metropolitan University, which is in danger of being closed down, the film depicts the emotional ...

After being sent away from the man she loves, Shino wanders in Osaka, waiting for him to reach out again.

The fourth chapter in the Love Cinema series, is a story of a cloistered and obsessive character who is confining and closed. When many suicides ...

An officer struggles to solve a murder case despite being at odds with his lieutenant. Officer Tetsubei discovers the body of a man whose face ...

A film crew visits a mountain-top pension for an idol’s photo book. Sudden heavy rain that night. The film crew is left alone in the ...

On Sunday, a man wakes up to find a strange woman sleeping next to him… A gay couple develop a strange, trusting relationship with a sudden ...

Dates and venues 6 – 14 July 1996, Theatre Saint Maur Created and performed by Yasuyuki Tsutsumi