Stars: Yasuaki Kurata, Alan Poul, Haruko Katô, Hiroshi Mikami, Ken Ogata
A fictional story in four parts of the life of the respected Japanese author, Yukio Mishima...
Stars: Venus Terzo, Scott McNeil, Kirby Morrow, Lisa Ann Beley, Kôichi Tôchika
Hitomi is a girl with psychic abilities who is transported to the magical world of Gaea. He and his friends find themselves under attack by the evil Zaibach Empire, and Guymelf Escaflowne provides the key to everything...
Stars: Shôji Ôki, Rokkô Toura, Taiji Tonoyama, Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa
A woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during the civil war. After some time, several samurai returning from the war are mysteriously killed in the area. The governor summons a brave hero to destroy what is clearly a ghost...
Stars: Aoi Miyazaki, Yutaka Matsushige, Eihi Shiina, Machiko Ono, Eimei Esumi
The film tells the story of the lasting effects of a crime experience by three different people. Naoki and Kozu, a teenage brother and sister, and Matoko, a bus driver, are three survivors of a bus kidnapping by a dangerous killer and...
Stars: Yûnosuke Itô, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kazuo Kitamura, Hôsei Komatsu, Yûji Shikamata
A science teacher makes an atomic bomb and uses it to extort the nation, but he doesn't really know what he's doing and what his purpose is...
Stars: Jerry Fujio, Takamaru Sasaki, Hitoshi Takagi, Asao Uchida, Wataru Takagi
Kamimura is a simple and melancholic assassin who gets a mission to kill a mafia boss. The boss of the rival group who hired him and his driver puts them in a hotel for one night to prepare a safe route for them. The son of the murdered man goes to the rival group and offers to cooperate in exchange for Kamimura's death and...
Stars: Yoshi Katô, Yukio Horikita, Mizuho Suzuki, Ken Ogata, Mayumi Ogawa
When Suchiki no longer provides money for his old lover Kikuyu to take care of his three children, he and Suchiki abandon their children and disappear...
Stars: Kamatari Fujiwara, Atsushi Watanabe, Jerry Fujio, Kin Sugai, Yoshiko Maki
In the corners of the lives of people who live in a poor neighborhood on the edge of a river in the suburbs of modern Tokyo.
Stars: Mizuho Suzuki, Nobuo Kaneko, Masao Shimizu, Akiji Kobayashi, Kinzô Shin
Joe Mizuno is a powerful man with hidden motives. His violent behavior is noticed by one of the yakuza bosses and he is quickly hired by them.
Stars: Hiroshi Tachikawa, Isao Tamagawa, Kayo Matsuo, Eimei Esumi, Hiroshi Chô
During World War II, a prostitute gets into trouble with an army officer and falls in love with his assistant and...
Stars: Isao Tamagawa, Kayo Matsuo, Eimei Esumi, Jô Shishido, Hiroshi Chô
After World War II, several women from Tokyo band together and attack any passerby who enters their area. Maya, a young woman who has lost her family, joins the group. In the meantime, Shane, a thief who killed an informer, arrives and...
Stars: Isao Tamagawa, Eimei Esumi, Tetsuya Watari, Hiroshi Chô, Yû Izumi
One of the Yakuza hitmen decides to live a life outside of crime after their group is disbanded, but after one of his old rivals tries to kill him, he becomes a homeless man and...
Stars: Yoshi Katô, Toshie Negishi, Hideo Murota, Kei Satô, Toshio Kurosawa
The story is about a journalist who steals a policeman's gun after killing him and commits more murders and thefts by breaking the law.
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Daigo Kusano, Daijirô Harada, Rokkô Toura, Taiji Tonoyama
After leaving high school, Michio Yamada (Norio Nagayama in the real life incidents) becomes involved in the shudan shushoku, a post-war Japanese government work program which involves taking almost an entire high school graduating class from the countryside to Tokyo to work for a fruit company. Some terrible things happened to his family in the past and that explains... Read allDirectorKaneto Shindô
Stars: Yûnosuke Itô, Tôru Abe, Taiji Tonoyama, Kinzô Shin, Eimei Esumi
Three schoolgirls are infatuated with a yakuza, Katsuta, from the Izu clan. They meet another yakuza named ``Diamond'' Fuyu from the rival Yoshida clan...
Stars: Yasuaki Kurata, Kaori Momoi, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Yûko Tanaka, Hiroshi Inuzuka
Near the turbulent end of the Edo era, a man returning to Japan after exile in America searches for his wife and becomes swept up in the current of revolution in this incisive period drama from the great Shohei Imamura.
Stars: Taiji Tonoyama, Moeko Ezawa, Keizô Kanie, Junko Miyashita, Eimei Esumi
The story takes place in 1958 and shows the events on a certain day when a new law was passed and that was the closure of all brothels and...
Stars: Moeko Ezawa, Junko Miyashita, Eimei Esumi, Hatsuo Yamaya, Gô Awazu
The world is in turmoil with the October Revolution of 1917, riots over inflated rice prices, and a military campaign into Siberia in 1918. But Shinsuke spends his days in the arms of geishas and doesn't pay much attention to the events around him...
