A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of...

Every Monday, a young woman is murdered in the subway, leading psychiatrist Setsuko Suma to investigate Dr. Rei Aku's deprogramming of former sect...

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of...

Akira was raised in an assassin family. Everything seemed fine until he met a girl he once saw killed 10 years ago.

In the year 2060, KEN, a 25-year-old young man raised by aliens living illegally on Earth, makes a living by selling dubious drugs, idolizing Carl...

Bored with her ordinary life, Maki, a former office worker, now works in the extreme sex industry that colors Yokohama's nightlife. She lives with a...

A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for...

narrow attic room. Student Yamamoto was breathless at the sight he saw peeking through the gap. His mentor, Takabayashi's second daughter, Masako,...

A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.

The piano tuner Ota is still in mourning for the loss of his beloved wife. He would like to go on, but he can’t find the beach where his wife...

Sakura is a moody teenage girl who lives close to the US military base in the city of Yamato, Japan. She is struggling everyday to become a rapper...

Filmed in a documentary style, six patients in six wards of different ages and circumstances await death at a hospital in Japan. The sterile and...

In a small town, high school students in their final year try to balance their studies while also playing together in a rock band.

All the protagonists move about in a Tokyo Bar that has an entire wall taken up with a black-and-white reproduction of a photo of Monument Valley....

A duo get mixed up with a girl who finds a trunk load full of heroin.

Anarchic parody of the crime genre set around a bank robbery.

A man tries to mend his past by helping his best friend’s sister.

Based on a short story by Seichi Matsumoto from 1956 and remake from the 1957 movie of the same name, the story is about an actor who has the...

The Eternal Founntain was broadcast as the Saturday Drama Special on NHK. Laywer Akio Yamauchi takes over the court-appointed attorney for Yoji...

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home...

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the...

#46 in the series

A continuation of the story of the postwar years in the Japanese Inland Sea. Now a decade has passed. Two friends meet and decide to look for the...

Gruesome! Terrifying! Exposing the grim reality of torture driven by twisted desires!

Yuko dreams of a woman in a straw hat, an alternate herself who chose another path in her life

Two couples stay at a villa, but the next morning one of them is found dead. The remaining three tell what happened to a police officer who happens...

Detective Tsumura Kyosuke embarks on a stimulant deal and shoots the son of Kudo, the head of a gangster group. Kudo, who killed his son, is angry...

One day, Kawamoto, a member of the Kunimatsu Federation, is appointed Acting Chairman, whilst Kaga is appointed Assistant to the Acting Chairman....

Saigo Takamori, the hero of the Meiji Restoration, was born to a poor, low-ranking samurai family in the Satsuma domain (present day Kagoshima...