Masao Adachi

On a beach in Beirut, Lili and Michel meet and struggle to piece together fragments from their uncertain past.

An activist filmmaker and the daughter of a Japanese terrorist share their stories of exile in Lebanon.

Genius provocateur Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses), an influential figure in the Japanese New Wave of the 1960s, made one of his most startling political statements with the compelling pitch-black satire Death by Hanging. In this macabre farce, a Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.