Oct 08 (News On Japan) - Japanese cinema has made a significant contribution to the history of film.
Many world-renowned directors studied it, and its films have been remade by Hollywood on numerous occasions. Let us introduce you to the best Japanese films from different periods.
Woman in the Dunes (Japan, 1964)
Teacher Niki Jūpei goes to the dunes to study the local fauna. The locals offer him a place to stay for the night with a young woman who lives in a hut dug into the ground. To get to her house, the researcher climbs down a rope ladder. But in the morning, he discovers that someone has pulled up the ladder, and now he is a prisoner of the strange owner of the hut.
Asako I & II (Japan, 2018)
Young Asako meets the flighty and wayward Baku and falls in love with him. Their relationship lasts six months. But one day, Baku goes to the store and does not return home. There is no information about him.
Two years later in Tokyo, the girl meets a young man who looks exactly like her first love. Only his name is Ryohei, he is a modest and decent person, a hard-working manager. Asako falls in love with Ryohei, and he reciprocates her feelings.
The young couple is happy together. They are growing together and plan to move from their apartment to a house in the country. But then Baku bursts back into Asako's life and shakes her world.
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“Dandelion” (Japan, 1985)
Tampopo is a young widow who owns an unsuccessful noodle shop. Her business is not going well, and she has almost no customers. But everything changes when two truck driver friends come into her cafe.
One of them, Goro, feels sorry for the owner and decides to take her under his wing. He helps her cook delicious noodles and get her business off the ground. Now Tampopo's noodle shop is bustling with life. It is full of customers, each with their own characteristics and destinies.
The film is shot in a genre of comedy that is unusual for Japan, full of unexpected scenes and parodies of Japanese life and culture.
“Get Behind the Wheel of My Car” (Japan, 2021)
The protagonist of the film, theater director Yusuke Kafuku, lives in a happy marriage with his wife, screenwriter Oto Kafuku. But one day he learns of her infidelity. Some time later, the couple gets into an accident, after which Oto dies.
Two years after the incident, Yusuke is invited to stage Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima. Under the terms of the contract, he is not allowed to drive, so he hires a driver, a quiet girl named Misaki.
Yusuke is not very happy about this. But as he gets to know his driver, he begins to rethink his past life and his relationship with his wife. Misaki also has a difficult fate that she needs to come to terms with.
