Gen Shimaoka

Inju: The Beast in the Shadow

The writer and college professor, Alexandre Fayard, researches and gives lectures about the gruesome literary w...

Fear and Trembling

Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there and tries t...

My 1919

To the Chinese, the Conference at Versailles was more of an insult at their dignity and sovreignity than a cele...

Le Baron et l'Empereur : Japon, la voie de la guerre

The Third Part of the World

Emma meets François at an airport in France. He is an astronomer who studies the phenomenon of black holes, and...

Lili David

Land of the Singing Dog

Japanese Yann Dedet's Land of the Singing Dog concerns a musicologist, Toyo Mahiru (Gen Shimaoka), and his wife...

Yoshido (The Other Life)

Six years ago, Yoshido directed La Vie lointaine, the adaptation of the eponymous novel of Haruki. Two days bef...

Capucine

An investigation between Alsace and Japan on capuchin monkeys and their incredible ability to communicate with...

Tomoe

Japan, 1860. Tomoe aspires to become an onna bugeisha, a female warrior. But Masaki, her weapons master, strang...

La vie lointaine

It is a mild winter and Martin has just settled into the isolated house that was his father's. One night, at th...