Movies: Masahiro Saito

  • 1974
    Pastoral: To Die in the Country

    Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974)

    Pastoral: To Die in the Country

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

    Pastoral: To Die in the Country
  • 1971
    Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

    Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971)

    Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

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    An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense familial dysfunction, psychosexual alienation, and existentialist malaise....

    Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
  • 1980
    Daughter of Time

    Daughter of Time (1980)

    Daughter of Time

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    A member of the jieitai ("Self-Defense Force"; i.e. Japanese military) is on leave and finds a woman giving birth in a graveyard in the former Yoshiwara district. He takes her to an inn to gove birth, and stays on a few days as she recovers, but beco...

    Daughter of Time
  • 2018
    Eriko, Pretended

    Eriko, Pretended (2018)

    Eriko, Pretended

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    For ten years, Eriko has been chasing her dream of becoming an actress in Tokyo. Returning to her hometown for her older sister’s funeral, she realizes that she might have to readjust her path in life. She deciof the to take care of her nephew and to...

    Eriko, Pretended
  • 1974
    Young Person's Guide to Cinema

    Young Person's Guide to Cinema (1974)

    Young Person's Guide to Cinema

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    Originally made for the 100 Feet Film Festival hosted by Image Forum. However, to test the limits, Terayama Shūji willfully made use of 3 projectors to project 300 feet of film at the same time....

    Young Person's Guide to Cinema