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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

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

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 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 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

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

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

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

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kantarō Suga

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

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Yoshizawa

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

Tetsuaki's struggling to write a novel while his mother fades; Mitsuko's engagement has been forced upon her unwillingly; the two individuals run...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koichi Sato

The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

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 ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryudo Uzaki

Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), imperial loyalist who tried to unite the Choshu and Satsuma clans and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshio Harada

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

After a woman is framed for the murder of her fisherman husband, she seeks out a bloody revenge on the corrupt businessmen responsible.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Mari Shirato

During the military phase of the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Sentaro joins a local militia loyal to the Tokugawa Shogunate in order to fight Imperial...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ben Hiura

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