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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

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 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 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

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

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 / Peter

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

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

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

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Fumio Watanabe

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Haunted by the drowning death of his own daughter, a police investigator embarks on an obsessive 10-year hunt for the identity of a dead boy, to the...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Farley Granger

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

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 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

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Mako Midori

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Yoshizawa

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

14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father’s young fiancée Momoko in search of her half-brother whom she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiromi Kurita