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Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on the the low pay he receives from his small town...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annual conference with the Lord, it is dictated that...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yukie Nakama

A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Koji Yakusho

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Abe

A life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she goes for a walk around town and falls in love with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bae Doona

Raised by assassins, Yuki is the last of the Takemikazuchi royal bloodline. A deadly weapon in her own right, she learns the gruesome truth about the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yumiko Shaku

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist....

Genre: Family

Cast: Mirai Shida

The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenji Sawada

In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yo Hitoto

Five women snatch one billion yen in jewellery from the yakuza, while construction manager Toyama burns for revenge against the mobsters who raped...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Ogata

After discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track down the key of the universe, which a fellow...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maki Sakai

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nagase

A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull open and cooked his brain...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yosuke Eguchi

Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joe Odagiri

Rei is a freelance writer embattled by personal demons. She hears voices in her head, and has sleeping problems, eating disorders and drinks...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinobu Terajima

An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling,...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda