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A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Haruhiko Kato

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emmanuelle Riva

With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broken. Nagamine and Asagi investigate while an...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Ai Maeda

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Matsumura

A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yuriy Solomin

Young art student Hideo paints an unnerving portrait of Tomie, who whispers that she loves him. Inexplicably, he reacts by stabbing her to death with...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Miki Sakai

In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

The continuing adventures of Matsuzaki, a racing tipster for a sports paper. Matsuzaki befriends a mysterious old track bettor named Tokudaiji. The...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eiji Okuda

A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form....

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Eiji Funakoshi

The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ganjirō Nakamura II

Eiko seeks out Miyoharu, a geisha, and asks to be her apprentice. When she is ready to receive clients, both women want the right to refuse certain...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Two young boys sneak aboard a spaceship and find themselves whisked away to the mysterious planet Terra. There, they encounter Gamera's old foe Gyaos...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Nobuhiro Kajima

As alien invaders plot to conquer the Earth, two Boy Scouts steal a mini-submarine and discover Gamera in their midst. Transported to the alien's...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa