Films produced by Art Theatre Guild

Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day period...

In 1960s Tokyo, Gonda owns a bar in which the gay, cross-dresser, and trans scenes meet. Gonda is in a relationship with the madam of the bar, Leda....

Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan....

A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.

In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.

Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of...

Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend,...

A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural...

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in...

Gengobe Satsuma, an exiled samurai cast out as an Asano clan retainer, is given a second chance to join his brothers in arms to become the 48th Ronin...

An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense...

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional...

In a Japanese colony, children overthrow their parental guardians and attempt to form a new society. Their plan spirals out of control and they are...

Bakyo is a talented but unsuccessful rakugo artist. The very successful Rokyu wants to take Bakyo under his wings, but Bakyo refuses, claiming that...

An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.

Tadao decides to comes back from Tokyo to live in his home town, in the countryside. He stays at his parents place and finds a job, repairing...

Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean women, meet a stowaway on Japanese soil from across...

A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among...

With an unlikely hero who apparently excels at almost anything, this confused saga of survival in the wilderness and accidental murder starts out...

A married couple of abalone divers must confront ruthless investors taking over their coastline.