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A hot summer day on a country road. A young woman in her bridal dress gets kicked out of a car. Lost and frustrated, she wanders off across a sea of grass into a dark wood - and discovers an abandoned house. Tired and worn out, she lies down on a bed. When she is awakened from her nap by a clap of thunder, she sees a cup of steaming hot tea and a package on the floor. She opens it - and finds a kimono. The bride knows she no longer is alone ... but should she put on the kimono?

Looking for something to eat, a homeless woman sneaks into a man's apartment and initially hides in his closet.

An exploration of Japanese culture by experimental animation artist José Castillo.

A girl influenced by the society tries to find love in her solitude filled life. But after facing rejection, her life spirals into a journey of finding self love and confidence.

“Magic Kimono” tells the story of middle-aged Japanese woman Keiko, who has been living in a shell for decades due to a family tragedy in Kobe. The modest act of eating and the sensations it gives us provided Keiko a lifeline to survive. Unwillingly, she joins a group of Japanese women traveling to Northern Europe to participate in a kimono show in the fairytale-like art nouveau world of Riga. During her performance, Keiko suddenly comes face to face with her husband, who disappeared twenty years ago and now wants to read-dress their relationship and who Keiko has become.

Mikage will get married to Youiti next year, she agrees to live with Youiti's parents. One day, Youiti's father disrobed Mikage's Kimono and raped her. To her astonishment, her fiancé Youiti whom Mikage considers true love has an affair with his young stepmother. Shocked and devastated, what will Mikage do?

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In the early Showa period, a young woman named Asako drifts into a certain red light district. She appears in a white dress, straw hat, and white parasol, which is out of place in this area, but what kind of past does she have, and what are her feelings as she drifts there?

Masamitsu Ichimori presides over a haiku doujinshi association, but behind the scenes he is actually running a sex club centered around doujinshi. Masamitsu's wife was trained and shown off to her coterie. The wives of the doujinshi also participated. Masamitsu's younger brother Hiroto, who lives with Masamitsu, is peeking in from the next room with a knife in his hand. He believes that he is possessed by something, and Hiroto sets out to kill them all.

Natsuki and Fuyumi sisters are beautiful in Japanese clothes. Natsuki's boyfriend, Kazuya, introduces his girlfriend to her father, Toshikage. At that moment, Natsuki and Toshikage felt something in each other...

Keiko becomes the second wife of Shizuo, the owner of a real estate company whose wife died in the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, through an arranged marriage. Despite the 20-year age difference, they are happy at first. However, as the company's financial situation worsens, their married life becomes colder, and Shizuo shows no interest in Keiko's advances. Around that time, Shizuo's son, Akira, who is not working much, begins to pressure Keiko into a physical relationship. Keiko, feeling lonely, accepts and becomes obsessed with sex. Then, when Keiko starts working part-time as an insurance salesman, Akira proposes that she murder Shizuo for the insurance money...

Kanako married into the Ishikawa family as a second wife, but her husband Yuzo has a lower body that is still damaged by a traffic accident five years ago. Kanako is devoted to Yuzo, but her young body is becoming sexually frustrated. At that time, Kanako reunites with her former colleague Kanai...

Rai, a frustrated student and part-time labourer, is wandering home after setting up a museum exhibition on the classic novel "The Tale of Genji". There is a blinding flash of light and he finds himself mysteriously time-slipped into the Heian period, the setting for the famous novel. Armed with a pamphlet on the history of the period and a bottle of headache tablets he passes as an onmyoji (magical protector of the capital) and is hired by the emperor’s wife Nyogo Kokiden. Fearless and coldly analytical she plots to have her son take over the Emperor’s position. Rai is expected to help. This light-hearted historical fantasy is a treat for lovers of sumptuous kimono.

Real estate tycoon Kagami Yusuke is approaching old age, but he lives a flawless, smooth-sailing life. However, he harbors a perverse urge to spy on other people having sex, finding the ultimate pleasure. His object of desire is his son's wife, Saori, a kimono dresser. However, Saori also harbors a twisted sexual urge, secretly seducing men every day, without her husband's knowledge... What will the man and woman discover beneath the draped kimonos as their hidden desires intersect in the afternoon?

More than 70 years have passed since the end of world war II, but a peace Treaty has not yet been signed between Russia and Japan. While the diplomats decide, ordinary citizens will hold their peace talks: the Russian, the granddaughter of the head of the pow camp, and the Japanese, the son of a pow who was in this camp. They met in the Khabarovsk territory, where this Stalinist camp was located. On the way, they told each other about how their ancestors were involved in the world war, about where they met the end of this war, about their wives and children… Can they come to an agreement? There's so much that separates them…

Tamu, karate black belt returned to his hometown, with the aim to open a karate school. Someone Sedoy, who has opened an existing school in the city, helps Tamu in achieving his objectives, requiring instead the subordination to it.

Two detectives clash over the hunt for a burlesque dancer’s killer in Los Angeles’ Japanese district.

A woman is married to an erotic novelist much older than her and lives a financially comfortable life. However, perhaps due to her age, her husband has already lost sexual function in the lower half of his body, and the woman is becoming increasingly frustrated. At that time, her husband's editor at a publishing company has changed and comes to greet him. The woman is surprised to see the man. It is her ex-girlfriend from her school days. Because she is always dressed in Japanese clothes according to her husband's preferences, she has become such a mature woman that the man did not recognize her at first. The man is fed up with his current wife's free-spirited and selfish personality, so he suddenly becomes interested in her. A sexually frustrated woman, a man who is beginning to feel fed up with life with his wife, and the two are ex-lovers. The two are meant to be, and they naturally make love. And the husband notices their relationship, but...

New short fiction film by Sanjar Murodshaykhov.

The film will tell the audience about the life and work of the legendary Japanese textile artist Itchiku Kubota. At the age of 20, while studying the art of dyeing fabrics at the Tokyo Museum, Ichiku Kubota was inspired by the patterns of the special painting on fabric for kimono "tsujigahana". The secret of labor-intensive technology seemed to be lost forever.

A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

The best must be the freshest. The best sake also follows the same principle to brew in which it needs the best and freshest raw materials, and also the freshest virgin to make it? Visiting one of a Japanese pub that seems to offer the best warm sake, Mononobe tries to follow the steps to reproduce the same flavor. However, he suddenly found out that those flavors are actually a combination of sake, sweat, and other bodily secretions of a virgin. As his only daughter is not a virgin anymore, the only way to make the best sake without a pure virgin is...

In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute, and becomes entangled in a love triangle. A mystery emerges involving two portraits and the sudden disappearance of the artist Sharaku. Helmed by Cannes-selected director Tatsuji Yamazaki, the film employs kabuki-inspired sequences and stylised sets.

The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as hundreds of eager contestants from across America prepare to take part in what is undoubtedly one of the greatest events of their lives -- the Mayflower Dog Show. The canine contestants and their owners are as wondrously diverse as the great country that has bred them.

Women getting onto a rickshaw.

This Traveltalk visit to Japan starts with a look at the country's cherry blossom trees, tulips, and ubiquitous gardens. We then see the proper manner for preparing a woman's hair and wearing a kimono.

Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, in his latest film production, a version of Madame Butterfly. Undaunted, the resourceful Lucy wings her way to Tokyo and, masquerading as a Japanese geisha, lands the coveted role from her unsuspecting husband! But in front of the cameras (and behind the pancake makeup), Lucy faces greater challenges: her lecherous leading man - and a husband who is beginning to realize that his talented new "discovery" seems vaguely familiar...

A young woman in traditional Japanese attire fixes her hair and kimono while her servants assist her.

Short animated film by Eri Eri Kinoshita.

Barricade the doors. Lock the windows. Because he's baaaack. That one-boy wrecking crew, Dennis the Menace, returns for more mischief and mayhem. Based on the comic strip and TV show about a mischievous little boy with a gift for the potentially lethal prank.

The Scarlet Speedster teams up with the city's previous superhero, The Nightshade, in two adventures.

Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. At a time when assassination had become a disturbing political tool, Shinoda's film follows Hachiro Kiyokawa, an ambitious, masterless samurai whose allegiances drift dangerously between the Shogunate and the Emperor.

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband.

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert the dwindling number of passengers when her job and the bus company itself are at stake.

A seemingly ordinary girl finds her way into the eponymous Academy to explore the world of fairy tales, imagination and creativity. With the help of a crazy, talented teacher, she develops her unique abilities and also stumbles upon a clue that will help her unravel the biggest secret of the family...

The second part of adventures of Mr. Blot and the students of his magic school.