Keiichi Hara's "Miss Hokusai," adapted from the Hinako Sugiura manga series, is a unique biopic, and not just because it is animated. Instead of telling the traditional story of a famous artist - in this case, Katsushika Hokusai, a legendary Japanese painter best known for the world-famous "The Big Wave" - we [...]

Akira Kurosawa's antepenultimate film, Dreams, is unlike any of the revered Japanese auteur's previous works, although it shares some characteristics with Dodes'ka-den (1970), his first color film, which intertwined a group of loosely connected stories taking place in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Dreams has a [...]

Spirited Away (千と千尋の神隠し Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi?, lit. The Mysterious Disappearance of Sen and Chihiro)3 is a 2001 Japanese animated film directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. It is the seventh feature film directed by Miyazaki within the studio and the twelfth Ghibli production. The film tells the story of a twelve-year-old girl [...]

Film based on stories by the writer Lafcadio Hearn. This film contains four distinct and separate stories. "Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but the marriage turns out to be disastrous and he returns to his former wife, only to discover something disturbing about her. "The Woman in the Snow": [...].

Faced with the imminent destruction of a lush forest near a city, whose leaders want to build a housing development in its place, the raccoons that live in the forest will try to sabotage the operation in order to preserve their homes. (FILMAFFINITY)

Momo is a young girl who has grown up in the big city. However, after the untimely death of her father, she must move with her mother to an old family home on a remote island. There, time seems to have stood still: clearings surrounded by trees, fields laboriously tilled on the hills... Momo doesn't exactly feel [...]

Faced with the imminent destruction of a lush forest near a city, whose leaders want to build a housing development in its place, the raccoons that live in the forest will try to sabotage the operation in order to preserve their homes. (FILMAFFINITY)

A greedy merchant tries to evict a village despite the poverty of its inhabitants. Soon he is attacked by a strange entourage of creatures that will make him know the absolute horror. A work of Japanese horror that rescues the deepest of the mythological traditions of the oriental country. (FILMAFFINITY)

Second part of the renowned "Yokai Monsters" filmed in the same year. In 2005 it had a remake directed by Takashi Miike (FILMAFFINITY).

A young girl named Miyo comes into possession of a document that could ruin the local crime boss Kanzo. The latter soon has the girl's grandfather murdered on sacred ground, prompting the release of yokai who must now punish the execration of their territory. (FILMAFFINITY)