Japan

A teacher at a Japanese school tries to hide his outcast upbringing.

Unno, a masterless samurai, has been supported financially since his father’s death by his wife, who makes small paper balloons. He hopes ...

Kanami (Satomi Kobayashi) is a TV director. Her pet Natsu recently died due to a disease. Kanami begins to shoot a film about dogs after her ...

Presents a young man’s journey to face an incomprehensible death of his best friend.

It has been thirteen years since the Androids began their killing rampage and Son Gohan is the only person fighting back. He takes Bulma’s ...

Hidejuro is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is ...

[Period covered: 1637-1651] This is one of the most complicated plots of any of the Shinobi no Mono films! This film tells the story of Saizo’s ...

Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha’s Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of ...

Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a ...

Akira, a young, jazz-obsessed drifter, returns to his squat, a ruined church, and finds Gill, a wounded African-American GI, on the run after the ...

Sadako, cursed by generations before her and neglected by her common-law husband, falls prey to a brutal home intruder. But rather than become a ...

A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.

A sharpshooter kills two prisoners in a police van at night. The guard on the van is suspended for six months; he’s Tamon, an upright, ...

Edmund Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) ...

Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a ...

The story follows a university student who moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to ...

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as ...

Emi Ota and her friend Okiku stay briefly at a mountain inn and then return to Tokyo. Later, Nanmura, a soldier on leave, steps on an ornamental ...

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing ...

Naruse Uta is a “unique” 13 year old child. She possessed the talent to read sheet music even before she could speak, but has now ...

Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada’s ex-wife. Recovering from ...

Fusako, a drug dealer’s young mistress in postwar Japan, loses her tenuous grasp on life upon learning about her lover’s affair.

Things go badly for a small film crew shooting a low-budget zombie movie when they are attacked by real zombies.

A Man Vanishes examines the concept of Johatsu, tackling the phenomenon of people missing in Japan over the years. It picks one such person from ...

During the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of Edo and constantly fought with the townspeople ...

When Sonoko enters a traditional Japanese arranged marriage with Amamiya facilitated by her parents the resulting union is loveless including the ...

Noriko lost her mother Yoshie when she was only 10-years-old. Yoshie knew she would not be able to live long enough to see her children grow up ...

A young jazz musician’s desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a ...

Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese ...

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan’s greatest ...