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A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Yakusho

With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broken. Nagamine and Asagi investigate while an...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Ai Maeda

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lurks some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Haruhiko Kato

The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuki Kitamura

A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ganjirō Nakamura II

Tatsuhito, a cop, pursues Chinese warlord Wang through the underworld of Shinjuku and over to Taiwan.

Genre: Action

Cast: Kippei Shiina

A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ice. In his search for energy, Gamera...

Genre: Action

Cast: Eiji Funakoshi

A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form....

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Eiji Funakoshi

Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A strange meteor lands in Japan and unleashes hundreds of insect-like "Legion" creatures bent on colonizing the Earth. When the military fails to...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Toshiyuki Nagashima

In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon...

Genre: War

Cast: Ayako Wakao

The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Machiko Kyō

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emmanuelle Riva

Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love with her,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

The tyrannical Lord Danjo Mikoshiba covets the rich, fertile lands surrounding Lake Yakumo. During a memorial ceremony for the late Chigusa lord,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kōjirō Hongō