Ukiyo Ukare

UKIYO UKARE present details from the shunga, pornographic wood-block prints of Harunobu, Utamaro, and others

Ukiyo buro

Film directed by Keigo Kimura.

Ukiyo-e: Floating World Images

400 years ago, in Japan, a revolutionary art was born and would influence the greatest Western artists of the late nineteenth century, the Ukiyo-E "floating images of the world." A wonderful trip in a world of beauty and

Ukiyo-e Artist

A portrait of a man trying to become an artist in order to escape from his life as a miserable peasant due to severe annual tribute during the reign of the fifth Tokugawa Shogun Tsunayoshi.

Art of the Game: Ukiyo-e Heroes

A Canadian craftsman and an American designer with a father and son generation gap collaborate to revive the ancient Japanese woodcut using pop-culture icons: Mario and Pokémon.

Ukiyo-e - images d’un monde flottant

Like a Japanese print in the midst of an unstable, fluctuating world: with Ukiyo-e, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, recently appointed director of the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève, offers a meditation on impermanence.

Suichû hadaka no ukiyo-e: Jakon

Pinku from 1965.

Shunga

An envelope of obscene woodblock prints makes a perverse connection between a violent homeless boxer, a feckless husband and a wife with a past trauma.

Ukiyoe Artist

Ukiyoe Cruel Story

Made after Takechi had won an obscenity trial over Black Snow (1965), the film has been called "Takechi's personal message to Eirin."

Ukiyodoko

The film is based on Ukiyodoko, a rakugo storytelling piece. Hanzo, the hero, brags to his friends to make a party go. Human nature remains unchanged. . . We love meaningless converstaions among boon companions. Di

The Fantastic World of "Ukiyoe"

A feature length colour animation describing the fantastic world of "Ukiyoe".

An Artist of the Floating World

In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led

The General and His Empire of Joy

Zenjiro (Masaru Shiga) is a lowlife criminal, roaming the country with his merry band of crooks, gamblers and rapists. When he gets done with his latest escapade of banging a samurai's wife, he finds that his love Okoyo

Travels of Lord Mito Pt.3

Third film in the 'Travels of Lord Mito' franchise.

Tokyo Bath Harem

A public bath house is the scene of illegal female slave trading operations in 18th century Japan and government spy Shinzo is sent in to expose the ringleaders as well as working to get a law passed eliminating coed bat

Great Edo Fleeting Life Bath Story

Story of Japanese women during the great Edo period.

Eros Schedule Book: Female Artist

The wife of a struggling artist is raped and begins painting a series of erotic images in an attempt to exorcise her demons. However the men in her paintings all have the same face as her rapist, and as her work becomes