Cast: Tetta Sugimoto

Direction Yōjirō Takita

Cast Masahiro Motoki · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Ryoko Hirosue · Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Plot Daigo Kobayashi is a young married cellist who played in an orchestra that has just been disbanded. Suddenly on the street without a job and no hope for a career,...

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Sachiko Murase · Choichiro Kawarazaki · Orie Satoh

Plot Yoshida returned to feature filmmaking after a hiatus of thirteen years with this brave and moving film about the struggle to maintain dignity in the face of old age and...

Direction Isao Yukisada

Cast Takao Osawa · Kou Shibasaki · Masami Nagasawa · Mirai Moriyama

Plot In 1980s Kyushu, two teenagers fell in love, and exchanged their secrets and thoughts by way of sending tape recordings to each other. More than a decade later, the boy...

Direction Naomi Kawase

Cast Nijiro Murakami · Jun Yoshinaga · Makiko Watanabe · Hideo Sakaki

Plot On the subtropical Japanese island of Amami, traditions about nature remain eternal. During the full-moon night of traditional dances in August, 16-year-old Kaito discovers a dead body floating in the...

Direction Takehiko Shinjo

Cast Mao Inoue · Masaki Okada · Tetta Sugimoto · Yoko Moriguchi

Plot As a child Takuma is diagnosed with a heart condition that requires care from a cardiologist. He soon becomes friends with his doctors young daughter Mayu while being treated at...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Norihei Miki · Ken Ogata · Leonard Kuma · Mitsuko Baisho

Direction Takeshi Kitano

Cast Takeshi Kitano · Tomokazu Miura · Kippei Shiina · Ryo Kase

Plot In a ruthless battle for power, several yakuza clans vie for the favor of their head family in the Japanese underworld. The rival bosses seek to rise through the ranks...

Direction Masaki Adachi · Ryu Kaneda · Hiroshi Ando · Komiya Masatetsu

Cast Patrick Harlan · Yui Ichikawa · Ryunosuke Kamiki · Ryôko Kobayashi

Direction Shinobu Yaguchi

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Chikara Yamamoto · Naoto Takenaka · Yuji Suzuki

Plot The swimming team of Tadano High School is in big trouble, the only active member; Suzuki is giving up any hope that the team will survive until the next Tadano...

Direction Fumihiko Sori

Cast Yamashita Tomohisa · Teruyuki Kagawa · Karina · Yusuke Iseya

Plot What does a young orphan urchin do in the slums of Tokyo? He gets into trouble, into brawls, into fights and eventually he lands in jail. Except this one is...

Direction Jean-Pierre Limosin

Cast Shinji Takeda · Hinano Yoshikawa · Kaori Mizushima · Takeshi Kitano

Direction Akihiko Shiota

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Kou Shibasaki · Kiichi Nakai · Kumiko Aso

Plot Dororo recounts the particular vendetta Hyakkimaru maintains with the 48 demons that shared most of his body following the satanic pact his own father signed. In his odyssey he will...

Direction Michihito Fujii

Cast Junichi Okada · Gou Ayano · Hayato Isomura · Tetta Sugimoto

Plot On the night of December 29, Detective Yuji Kudo drives his car to see his mother, who is hospitalized with a serious health condition. He receives a phone call from...

Direction Takashi Shimizu

Cast Yûka · Karina · Kippei Shiina · Tetta Sugimoto

Plot Nagisa Sugiura (Yuka) is a young Japanese actress who comes face to face with a slew of ghosts. These restless spirits begin to appear when she signs on to star...

Direction Yoshihiro Nakamura · Masayuki Ochiai · Takashi Shimizu · Kôji Shiraishi

Cast Kayoko Shiraishi · Shôzô Endô · Yoshinori Okada · Kanako Fukaura

Plot Produced by Taka Ichise (Ring, Dark Water), five of Japan’s top horror directors, including Takashi Shimizu (The Grudge) and Norio Tsuruta (Ring 0: Birthday) contribute to this anthology of terrifying...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Kumiko Akiyoshi · Eiji Okuda · Hisashi Igawa · Kyôko Kagawa

Plot Three Japanese pilgrims arrive in India. Miss Naruse is looking for Otsu, a Catholic priest, her lover ten years before; after time in France and Israel, he has come to...

Direction Kosuke Suzuki · Keiichiro Shiraki

Cast Shun Oguri · Hidetoshi Nishijima · Yuriko Ishida · Hidekazu Mashima

Plot The Special Investigation Unit is a secret force of specialists in various fields. The unit is under the direct control of the head of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Security...

Direction Naomi Tamura · Meiji Fujita · Takashi Komatsu

Cast Emi Takei · Inamori Izumi · Kôji Seto · Jun Kaname

Plot Emiri Yoshii begins work at a general trading company. Due to her family's failure in business, she had to give up her dream of earning a MBA in America. Now,...

Direction Michiko Namiki · Yusuke Kato · Tomonobu Moriwaki

Cast Yoko Maki · Masahiro Higashide · Fumi Nikaidou · Mayu Matsuoka

Plot 10 episodes. Tanaka Tamako had been working for a male-dominated restaurant business but was betrayed by her boyfriend who was hired as the chef. In addition, she is taken to...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Yûta Hiraoka · Takahiro Miura · Kana Kurashina · Akiyoshi Nakao

Plot Set 10 years after "Kids Return." Shinji and Masaru have graduated from high school with different paths in their lives. Shinji attempted to become boxer and Masaru a yakuza. They...