Survive Style 5+
Japan | 2004
Dir: Gen Sekiguchi
Cast: Kyoko Koizumi, Reika Hashimoto, Tadanobu Asano, Vinnie Jones
Scars of the Sun / Blow the Night
Japan | 1981-83
Dir: Chusei Sone
Cast: Ken Ogata, Kenichi Kaneda, Namie Takada
Transcending Dimensions
Japan | 2025
Dir: Toshiaki Toyoda
New Directors from Japan: Takashi Ono
Japan | 2016-2023
Dir: Takashi Ono
The Angel Guts Collection
Japan | 1979-1994
Dir: Chusei Sone, Noboru Tanaka, Takashi Ishii, Toshiharu Ikeda
Cast: Jun Izumi, Mayako Katsuragi, Naoto Takenaka, Yuki Mizuhara
Just a few weeks until this youth-gang double-bill from Chusei Sone (Angel Guts)!
Scars of the Sun 太陽のきずあと (1981)
Blow the Night 夜をぶっとばせ (1983)
Both being released for the first time ever outside of Japan!
Out July 27
Order @Terracotta_Dist
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Blow the Night! #夜をぶっとばせ
One of the most realistic films about Japanese yankiis of the 1980s
Directed by Chusei Sone (Angel Guts)
First ever release outside of Japan coming July 27 from #thirdwindowfilms
Order @Terracotta_Dist
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Enter the gate of the universe!
This strange world within @toyodatoshiaki's TRANSCENDING DIMENSIONS #次元を超える was designed by Tekkonkinkreet director Michael Arias!
Buy the limited edition bluray @Terracotta_Dist
https://shop.terracottadistribution.com/products/transcending-dimensions-blu-ray-limited-edition
In 2014, @nagisaisogai graduated with THE LUST OF ANGELS, a striking genre riposte to the normalisation of train gropers
Nine years later, she returned with POLAR NIGHT, a sapphic drama about a vampire art teacher and the women in her orbit
I spoke with her for the Substack:
Great to be involved with this exciting @thirdwindow release - with a featurette exploring teenage delinquency in Japan in the '80s via biker groups, punk music, and high school gangs. More via the link below!