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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

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 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

An introverted schoolgirl falls in love and starts a relationship with one of her classmates. Set in a small seaside town in Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mikako Ichikawa

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 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

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

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

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

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Abe

A psychologically thrilling portrait of the severe dysfunction behind a family clinging to decorum and pride.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joe Odagiri

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

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Koji Yakusho

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

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

Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kumiko Aso

Awkward and withdrawn, Masako kills her sister in an explosion of pent-up humiliation and rage that sends her tumbling into fugitive life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naomi Fujiyama

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

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

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Makiko Esumi

A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki