Art Theatre Guild

Art Theatre Guild

Studio

Titles

20 titles
1
Funeral Parade of Roses

Funeral Parade of Roses

1969 · 1h 45m · Movie

The trials and tribulations of Eddie and other transvestites in Japan.

7.7
2
Death by Hanging

Death by Hanging

1968 · 1h 57m · Movie

A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the situation in this black farce.

7.5
3
Demons

Demons

1971 · 2h 14m · Movie

After being robbed by a geisha, a ronin warrior carves a bloody path to seek revenge.

7.9
4
Double Suicide

Double Suicide

1969 · 1h 45m · Movie

A doomed love between a paper merchant and a courtesan.

7.6
5
Pastoral: To Die in the Country

Pastoral: To Die in the Country

1974 · 1h 44m · Movie

A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.

7.7
6
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

1971 · 2h 17m · Movie

An angst-ridden teen dealing with his dysfunctional family hits the streets. The story is inter-cut with various psychedelic, energetic vignettes.

7.6
7
Boy

Boy

1969 · 1h 37m · Movie

A young boy reluctantly aids his swindling father in a threatening scam.

7.4
8
Zigeunerweisen

Zigeunerweisen

1980 · 2h 24m · Movie

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

6.9
9
Typhoon Club

Typhoon Club

1985 · 1h 55m · Movie

The movie takes place in the five-day period before, during and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which several students endure while marooned in their school gymnasium.

6.9
10
This Transient Life

This Transient Life

1970 · 2h 23m · Movie

Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his aff...

7.7
11
The Ceremony

The Ceremony

1971 · 2h 3m · Movie

Upon receiving a shocking telegram from his cousin, a man recounts his early life, as a member of a broad family full of dark secrets that slowly reveal themselves through the clan ceremonies.

7.3
12
Ecstasy of the Angels

Ecstasy of the Angels

1972 · 1h 29m · Movie

A revolutionary faction steals some hand bombs. While escaping, several soldiers are killed. The movement's highest authority deems October unfit and sends the leader of another faction to take the remaining bombs.

6.2
13
The Family Game

The Family Game

1983 · 1h 47m · Movie

Japanese parents hire a tutor for their foolish son and get a critic of their lifestyle.

7.1
14
The Crazy Family

The Crazy Family

1984 · 1h 46m · Movie

After moving into a new house, a family starts acting crazier and crazier.

7.1
15
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief

Diary of a Shinjuku Thief

1969 · 1h 36m · Movie

Story of a bookstore thief named Birdey who is led through various adventures in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko.

6.1
16
Heroic Purgatory

Heroic Purgatory

1970 · 1h 58m · Movie

An engineer's wife returns home with a lost teenager. A man posing as her dad tries to get her back, causing the engineer to recall his youth as a revolutionary, obscured by dreamlike disruptions of time and space, fantasy and rea...

7.1
17
Mermaid Legend

Mermaid Legend

1984 · 1h 50m · Movie

A woman is avenging the death of her husband in this slightly supernatural drama.

7.1
18
A Man Vanishes

A Man Vanishes

1967 · 2h 10m · Movie

Plastics salesman Oshima disappeared without a word to anyone, and has been missing for two years. Shohei Imamura and his crew follow Oshima's fiancé Yoshie and actor Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as they investigate the disappearance.

7.2
19
The Man Who Left His Will on Film

The Man Who Left His Will on Film

1970 · 1h 34m · Movie

A metaphysical mystery involving a university student's camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide. Looking back upon the event, the situation comes to be questioned if it happened at all.

7.0
20
Himiko

Himiko

1974 · 1h 40m · Movie

A freestyle, imagined telling of the life of shaman queen Himiko, who falls in love with her half-brother, making her powers weaken thus putting her position to risk.

7.0