Legacy of the 500,000 (1963) Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tsutomu Yamazaki
During the Second World War, Takeichi Matsuo had participated in hiding a h...
The Demon AKA Kichiku (1978) Yoshitarô Nomura, Shima Iwashita, Ken Ogata, Hiroki Iwase
When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay...
Fag Hag AKA Okoge (1992) Takehiro Nakajima, Misa Shimizu, Takehiro Murata, Takeo Nakahara
Sayoko, a young woman, meets Goh and his older gay lover Tochi, and invites...
Nihon kuroshakai / Ley Lines (1999) Takashi Miike, Shô Aikawa, Samuel Pop Aning, Takeshi Caesar
A group of Chinese youths living in Japan struggle to make their way in lif...
Larks on a String (1990) Jirí Menzel, Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský, Václav Neckár
Prague in the early 1950’s. Bourgeois elements are being re-educated by wor...
Dragon Seed (1944) Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway, Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Aline MacMahon
Ling Tang and his family live on his prosperous farm in rural Southern Chin...
Silence Has No Wings AKA Tobenai chinmoku (1966) Kazuo Kuroki, Mariko Kaga, Hiroyuki Nagato, Shôichi Ozawa
Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Naga...
Tragedy of W AKA W no higeki (1984) Shin’ichirô Sawai, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Yoshiko Mita, Masanori Sera
Young college student Shizuka is given the opportunity to act in a stage pl...
Internal Sleuth AKA Sakura no Daimon (1973) Kenji Misumi, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Kayo Matsuo, Michi Higashi
When 150 guns are lost from the Iwakuni base and two police officers are sh...
Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1998) Katsuhito Ishii, Tadanobu Asano, Ittoku Kishibe, Sie Kohinata
In dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexua...
Five Women AKA Gonin 2 (1996) Takashi Ishii, Ken Ogata, Shinobu Ôtake, Kimiko Yo
Thrown together by chance during the robbery of a jewelry store by a Yakuza...
Ageman / Tales of a Golden Geisha (1990) Jûzô Itami, Nobuko Miyamoto, Masahiko Tsugawa, Hiroshi Ohkôchi, Comedy, Drama
The film stars two of Itami’s regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha w...
Ninja, a Band of Assassins AKA Shinobi no mono (1962) Satsuo Yamamoto, Raizô Ichikawa, Shiho Fujimura, Yûnosuke Itô
Ishikawa Goemon (Ichikawa Raizo), a talented young ninja, becomes ensnared ...
Dokuritsu gurentai / Desperate Outpost (1959) Kihachi Okamoto, Makoto Satô, Izumi Yukimura, Misa Uehara, Drama, War, Action
When Sergeant Okubo’s brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern...
Muddy River AKA Doro no kawa (1981) Kôhei Oguri, Takahiro Tamura, Mariko Kaga, Nobutaka Asahara
Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Os...