Akira Kurosawa's Dreams 1990  PG, 120 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Akira Terao, Martin Scorsese, Chishu Ryu, Mieko Harada, Mitsuko Baisho, Chosuke Ikariya, Toshie Negishi, Mitsunori Isaki, Toshihiko Nakano, Yoshitaka Zushi, Hisashi Igawa, Masayuki Yui
Famed writer-director Akira Kurosawa put together a number of his dreams and presents a sequence of incidents exploring the relationship of human beings to their environments.
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 Audition 1999 R, 115 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Takashi Miike
Cast: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura, Renji Ishibashi, Miyuki Matsuda, Toshie Negishi, Ren Osugi, Shigeru Saiki, Ken Mitsuishi, Yuriko Hirooka, Misato Nakamura, Fumiyo Kohinata, Yuuto Arima, Ayaka Izumi
Another unique film from Director Takashi Miike, this is the story of an executive, Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) who has been a widower for seven years. He would like companionship, but it must be with a "proper" woman. His movie-executive friend has an idea: he will hold an audition pretending that it is for an upcoming production. Asami Yamazaki (Eihi Shiina) is selected, and an affair begins. Now comes the dark side as the disturbing truth about Asami is revealed.
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Rhapsody in August 1991  PG, 98 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Sachiko Murase, Richard Gere, Tomoko Otakara, Hisashi Igawa, Mitsunori Isaki, Narumi Kayashima, Toshie Negishi, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Choichiro Kawarazaki, Mieko Suzuki
Japanese-American Clark (Richard Gere) travels to visit and apologize to his Aunt Kane (Sachiko Murase) for the U.S. bombing of Nagasaki during World War II. Kane was a survivor of the catastrophe, and the film explores the bombing through her grandchildren's reaction to the conversation between nephew Clark and Aunt Kane.
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Warm Water Under a Red Bridge 2001 N/R, 119 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Shohei Imamura
Cast: Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baisho, Mansaku Fuwa, Kazuo Kitamura, Isao Natsuyagi, Yukiya Kitamura, Hijiri Kojima, Toshie Negishi, Sumiko Sakamoto
After losing his wife and job, Yosuke Sasano (Koji Yakusho) sets out in search of a stolen Buddha statue rumored to rest in a house near a red bridge. But, along the way he finds a more satisfying treasure: the beautiful, but sexually mysterious, Saeko (Misa Shimizu). After almost 50 years of filmmaking, Shohei Imamura continues to turn out superb films.
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| 1. Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
2. Audition (1999)
3. Rhapsody in August (1991)
4. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)
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