»Matsukaze« is among the best-loved classics of Japanese Noh Theatre. The sisters Matsukaze and Murasame are each in love with the same man; their feelings however remain unrequited in this life. Years after death the sisters’ spirits revisit this world in tireless pursuit of their beloved. With the world première of »Matsukaze« Sasha Waltz follows […]
While Berlin offers an appealing base for many musicians to live and play, others are drawn again and again for just a few weeks or months in the year, bringing fresh sounds to Berlin’s ever-changing music scene. “We’ve just sold the most CDs ever since we got to Berlin,” Emi Kashiwara, one half of the […]
Gotô is one of the masters of Japanese Pink Cinema which features open-minded and experimental low-budget films with innovative sex scenes. BLIND LOVE tells the story of three screwball characters who stumble into a bizarre ménage à trois. The protagonists are absurdly funny but never ridiculed. This hilarious, gentle sex comedy moved its audience at […]
A highly contagious incest virus induces several generations of a Japanese family to have sex in all possible constellations and across gender boundaries – and with that man in a bear costume who suddenly appears? Only in Japan! Come and discover Koichi Imaizumi, an upcoming new filmmaker who gives sexual lunacy in this porn grotesque […]
Sushi in Suhl is a 2012 German feature film about the history of the only Japanese restaurant in the GDR and its chef Rolf Anschütz. Directed by Carsten Fiebeler. The leading roles played Uwe Steimle and Julia Richter .
Nominated for her publication Illuminance, published by Editions Xavier Barral (France, 2011). Hailed for her ability to turn the mundane into the extraordinary and poetic, Kawauchi’s work explores themes of life, death and the everyday. Illuminance, the result of both commissions and personal projects, spans fifteen years of her practice. Using a soft palette of […]
Love’s Whirlpool A dating evening for four couples, three beds and voyeurs European premiere TEXT / DIRECTION Daisuke Miura [Tokyo] With Ryotaro Yonemura, Yusuke Furusawa, Ryo Iwase, Hideaki Washio, Hiroyuki Aoki, Katsuyuki Iizuka, Runa Endo, Megumi Nitta, Yoshiko Miyajima, Juri Takagi STAGE MANAGER Kiyonaga Matsushita STAGE Toshie Tanaka LIGHT Takashi Ito SOUND Yoshihiro Nakamura FILM […]
By Yoske Nishiumi I am so excited to help organizing an opening party of Kyohei Sakaguchi’s exhitbition at Haus Der Berliner Festspiele. It is a project of Sakaguchi to build a house for Marino Formenti who will play piano and live inside of this space for three weeks. The house is built around a big […]
A girl unable to speak, a man unable to write a poem, a crisis line manager unable to help might find in the gloomiest of all places what they have been longing for – Hope and courage. Official site: http://www.snowchildthemovie.com