A series of text movie discussions originally produced by 4gamer, hosted by SUDA51, manager of the fictitious Cinema51, and Kei Sekine, owner of Bar Plastic Model. Spiritual successor of the previous Theatre51.
Beginning in July of 2012, the series ran intermittently until June of 2018, when the final episode was published. It was then revived in May of 2024 as a video series on the official Grasshopper Manufacture YouTube channel, with Takuma Araki as the director.
4gamer series
Episode 1 (03/07/12) – Alexander Sokurov’s Faust (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 2 (23/07/12) – Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must Be The Place (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 3 (11/08/12) – Daihachi Yoshida’s The Kirishima Thing (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 4 (13/10/12) – Shinji Higuchi’s Giant God Warrior Appears In Tokyo (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 5 (02/03/13) – Yoshihiro Nakamura’s See You Tomorrow, Everyone (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 6 (06/04/13) – Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 7 (08/06/13) – Leos Carax’s Holy Motors (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 8 (29/06/13) – Wreck-It Ralph (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 9 (20/07/13) – Short Peace (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 10 (27/07/13) – V/H/S (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 11 (17/08/13) – The ABCs of Death (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 12 (31/08/13) – Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 13 (19/10/13) – Ruben Fleischer’s Gangster Squad (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 14 (26/10/13) – Yuichi Sato’s Strawberry Night (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 15 (16/11/13) – Danny Boyle’s Trance (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 16 (30/11/13) – Sofia Coppola’s Bling Ring (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 17 (14/12/13) – Josh Trank’s Chronicle (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 18 (27/12/13) – Hajime Hashimoto’s Aibo Series: X Day (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 19 (11/01/14) – Giuseppe Tornatore’s The Best Offer (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 20 (25/01/14) – Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 21 (08/03/14) – Kinji Fukasaku’s The Fall of Ako Castle (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 22 (22/03/14) – Shinji Aramaki’s Captain Harlock (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 23 (29/03/14) – Dario Argento’s Dracula (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 24 (10/05/14) – Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 25 (24/05/14) – Toshiaki Toyoda’s Crows Explode (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 26 (31/05/14) – Hiroshi Nakajima’s The Secret Children (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 27 (07/06/14) – Jon Turteltaub’s Last Vegas (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 28 (16/07/14) – The Grand Budapest Hotel (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 29 (16/08/14) – Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune (Archive)
Episode 30 (04/10/14) – James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 31 (06/12/14) – Yoshiyuki Tomino’s Mobile Suit Gundam UC Unicorn (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 32 (27/12/14) – Akiyoshi Kimata’s Aibo: The Movie III (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 33 (28/02/15) – Ken Loach’s Jimmy’s Hall (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 34 (22/08/15) – Muscle Sakai’s Pro Wrestling Cannonball: The Movie (2014) (Archive)
Episode 35 (12/09/15) – Peter Chelsom’s Hector and the Search for Happiness (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 36 (03/10/15) – George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 37 (21/11/15) – Hitoshi One’s Bakuman (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 38 (05/12/15) – Chad Stahelski’s John Wick (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 39 (29/12/15) – Kazuaki Kiriya’s Last Knights (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 40 (23/01/16) – Tomoyuki Takimoto’s Grasshopper (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 41 (31/02/16) – Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 42 (26/03/16) – Yudai Yamaguchi’s Chin’yuuki & Koji Maeda’s Sailor Suit and Machine Gun – Graduation (Archive – IMDB – IMDB)
Episode 43 (13/01/18) – Junji Shimizu’s Mazinger Z: Infinity (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 44 (10/02/18) – Claude Barras’ My Life as a Zucchini (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 45 (24/03/18) – John Carroll Lynch’s Lucky (Archive – IMDB)
Episode 46 (02/06/18) – Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs and Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One (Archive – IMDB – IMDB)
YouTube show
Episode 1 (11/05/2024) – Sean Durkin’s The Iron Claw (Archive – Subtitles – IMDB)