VYER FILMS (“Himizu”) Vyer proudly uses the word “curated,” and its small collection of films includes some notoriously challenging work, like Isild Le Besco’s “Bas-Fonds” and Nicolas Provost’s “Invader.” The Japanese director Sion Sono is a known provocateur, but his 2011 “Himizu,” while jarringly violent and subject to wild shifts of tone, is more straightforward than earlier works like “Cold Fish” and “Love Exposure.” Quickly rewritten after the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, it’s a pitch-black comedy that juxtaposes Japan’s attempt to dig itself out of physical and psychological ruin with a middle-school boy’s attempt to survive the pathologies forced on him by violent deadbeat parents.

The film’s stars, Shota Sometani as the boy, and Fumi Nikaido as the girl who’s cheerfully obsessed with him, even though he consistently slaps her around, won awards for best new actors at the Venice Film Festival.

WARNER ARCHIVE INSTANT (“Dr. Kildare”) Talk about bingeing — in 1961, when this pioneering medical drama started its five-year run on NBC, the initial season lasted 33 episodes. Its first season is among the recent offerings on Warner Bros.’ vintage-movie-and-TV site. With Richard Chamberlain as the crusading young intern James Kildare and Raymond Massey as his mentor, Dr. Gillespie, the show was a prototype for the soap-operatic sensibilities of contemporary hospital shows. But it also demonstrates how crisply and inventively filmed television could be in the ’60s, and how much prime-time drama of the era borrowed from the style and frankness of noir and pulp movies.