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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

In late 60s Tokyo, Eddie, a young drag queen, is the favourite of Gonda, the owner of the bar where she works. This relationship provokes the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinnosuke Ikehata

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

Gengobe Satsuma, an exiled samurai cast out as an Asano clan retainer is given a second chance to join his brothers in arms to become the 48th Ronin...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

Conditions have been better for the nameless protagonist: his grandmother is a shoplifter and his war criminal father and sister have an unhealthy,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideaki Sasaki

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

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

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

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

This biopic is centered on New Year's Day of 1894, when Kitamura is recovering from a suicide attempt. Japan is then under the spell of fervent...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ranbô Minami

A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

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 family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Fumio Watanabe

Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss.

Genre: Music

Cast: Mako Midori

Two college buddies try to understand a young woman's suicide through her Super-8 films and clips from their summer trips together.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zhou Wada

A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Minori Terada

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

Out of the blue, a bourgeois family on the Sea of Japan finds an unconscious woman on the beach and decides to let her board.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa