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In 1960s Tokyo, Gonda owns a bar in which the gay, cross-dresser, and trans scenes meet. Gonda is in a relationship with the madam of the bar, Leda....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinnosuke Ikehata

Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the five-day...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Youki Kudoh

A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Do-yun Yu

Tells the story of the samurai Gengobe, who seeks revenge after falling prey to the schemes of a geisha and her husband.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kantarō Suga

A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Toshiyuki Nagashima

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Toshiya Fujita

A militant revolutionary group is torn apart by betrayal as its members descend into paranoia and sexual decadence.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Yoshizawa

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenzō Kawarasaki

An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideaki Sasaki

Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Tsukasa

Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yutaka Mizutani

A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

Two university students from Kyoto decide to swap partners and spend the night in an isolated motel. However, one of the couples is attacked....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Kishida

Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kichiemon Nakamura II

The Kobayashi family finally are able to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment to the suburban house of their dreams. But things are not as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katsuya Kobayashi

In a Japanese colony, children overthrow their parental guardians and attempt to form a new society. Their plan spirals out of control and they are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Goro Abashiri

In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanori Yokoo

Eros Eterna tells the story of a legendary immortal nun who wanders around encountering several people of various conditions.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiko Matsuda

A sendup of the stereotypical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda