Aisuru / To Love (1997) Kei Kumai, Miki Sakai, Atsuro Watabe, Jô Shishido
Mitsu (Sakai Miki) meets Yoshioka (Watabe Atsuro) on Christmas and spends t...
Blessing Bell AKA Kôfuku no kane (2002) SABU, Susumu Terajima, Naomi Nishida, Reila Aphrodite
After losing his job at the factory Igarashi aimlessly wanders through Toky...
The Iron Crown (1972) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Hideo Kanze, Meg Flower, Drama
Dependent on the Noh play with the identical title, The Iron Crown is about...
Tora-san Loves an Artist AKA Otoko wa tsurai yo: Watashi no tora-san (1973) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Keiko Kishi
Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for K...
A Room for Rent AKA Kashima ari (1959) Yûzô Kawashima, Furankî Sakai, Nobuko Otowa, Ikio Sawamura
The story follows the various tenants living in a multi-room tenement on a ...
Beauty in Rope Hell / Dan Oniroku Bijo nawa jigoku (1983) Genji Nakamura, Miki Takakura, Maya Itô, Daisuke Iijima
A mailman becomes obsessed with a pretty, young wife. He captures the woman...
The Berlin Affair AKA Interno berlinese (1985) Liliana Cavani, Gudrun Landgrebe, Kevin McNally, Mio Takaki
Set in 1938 Berlin, Louise Von Hollendorf is the wife of a young Nazi diplo...
Velvet Hustler (1967) Toshio Masuda, Tetsuya Watari, Ruriko Asaoka, Jô Shishido
A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from ...
Mother (1952) Mikio Naruse, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kyôko Kagawa, Eiji Okada
Adopted from a prize-winning school essay on the subject of ‘My Mother,’ up...
The Human Condition III: A Soldiers Prayer (1961) Masaki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Tamao Nakamura
Part three of a trilogy. After the Japanese defeat to the Russians in the l...
Late Chrysanthemums AKA Bangiku (1954) Mikio Naruse, Haruko Sugimura, Ken Uehara, Sadako Sawamura
What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has ret...
Gurotesuku / Grotesque (2009) Kôji Shiraishi, Kotoha Hiroyama, Hiroaki Kawatsure, Shigeo Ôsako, Horror, Thriller
An unnamed doctor has always had everything he’s ever wanted, but that has ...
The Fire Within AKA Onibi (1997) Rokuro Mochizuki, Yoshio Harada, Reiko Kataoka, Show Aikawa
A yakuza hitman gets out of jail and decides to start a new life, but soon ...
Red Room: The Forbidden King Game (1999) Daisuke Yamanouchi, Hiroshi Kitasenju, Sheena Nagamori, Mayumi Ookawa, Horror, Thriller, Exploitation
How low would you go to win a million dollars? Just how desperate are you f...
Zatoichi: The Last (2010) Junji Sakamoto, Shingo Katori, Takashi Sorimachi, Satomi Ishihara
Ichi has given up his cane sword and his former life as a traveler in order...