Cast: Toru Minegishi

Direction Yōjirō Takita

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

Synopsis 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, Daigo decides to move back to his hometown with his...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Kiwako Harada · Riki Takeuchi · Noriko Watanabe · Tomokazu Miura

Synopsis After being threatened by his girlfriend’s brother, Ko (Riki Takeuchi) goes on a trip on his Kawasaki to contemplate his options. He meets Miiyo (Kiwako Harada) by chance, and the two stay in touch. He later receives an invitation to...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Shosuke Tanihara · Kenji Takano · Marie Jinno · Tamaki Kenmochi

Synopsis Hailed by TIME magazine as one of the ten best of 1997, FUDOH is a stylized Yakuza film about Riki Fudoh, a high school student whose Yakuza kingpin father murdered his other son, Riki's brother, in order to settle a...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Hiroko Yakushimaru · Ryôichi Takayanagi · Miyoko Akaza · Fumi Dan

Synopsis Mitamura Yuka is a normal shy middle school student that has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to show his skills, by stealing the student government election, Yuka and her friends vow to stop him. The...

Direction Yasuharu Ishii

Cast Yamashita Tomohisa · Sho Aikawa · Maki Horikita · Mao Daichi

Direction Derek Yee

Cast Jackie Chan · Naoto Takenaka · Daniel Wu · Xu Jinglei

Synopsis In the early 1990s, a tractor mechanic from a northen countryside in China nicknamed Steelhead (Jackie Chan), enters Japan illegally in search of his girlfriend Xiu Xiu (Xu Jinglei). Steelhead and his friend, Jie (Daniel Wu) meet in the busy...

Direction Kazuki Omori

Cast Kunihiko Mitamura · Yoshiko Tanaka · Masanobu Takashima · Koji Takahashi

Synopsis A scientist combines the cells of a rose with those of Godzilla to create a biological creature more horrifying than any seen before. The two do battle after a destructive tour of Japan by Godzilla. A newly released version includes...

Direction Tetsutaro Murano

Cast Reiko Oimori · Reiko Hayama · Mayumi Ogawa · Hisashi Igawa

Synopsis Set during Japan's Meiji period, three sisters are abused and exploited by their harsh father, including a daughter who plays the three-corded shamisen for pilgrims visiting the sacred chapel of Ise.

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Miyoko Akaza · Kumiko Akiyoshi · Toru Minegishi · Hiroyuki Watanabe

Synopsis When Ryoko was in Europa to study music, her lover died in traffic accident. Ryoko believed that she had psychic power that killed her boyfriend. Ryoko returned to Japan, and was sent to a mental hospital. When she recovered, her...

Direction Toshiya Fujita

Cast Keiko Matsuzaka · Shinobu Otake · Tsunehiko Watase · Rentarô Mikuni

Synopsis WOMAN’S KARMA—LIKE THE OCEAN, CALM BUT SUDDENLY WILD AND ANGRY. Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a dangerous match with the husband of her frigid cousin.

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Hiroshi Katsuno · Hikari Ishida · Yôji Matsuda · Toshinori Omi

Synopsis Ayase Shinsuke (Hiroshi Katsuno), a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up in. He meets a strange boy who calls himself by the author’s real name.

Direction Masato Ishioka · Naoto Kumazawa

Cast Bengaru · Ken'ichi Endô · Fumina Hara · Toru Minegishi

Synopsis In this excursion into Tokyo's dark side, a sexually repressed woman finds liberation by turning tricks at night; a sex worker is taken by surprise when her ex drops by; and a sex blogger finds strange kinship with a loner.

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Toshio Kakei · Misa Shimizu · Seina Suzuki · Mirei Nakamura

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Miki Fujitani · Tomorô Taguchi · Miyoko Akaza · Hitoshi Ômae

Synopsis People from all walks of life (a high-school student, a middle-aged businessman, a yakuza chief, etc.) all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to go to a small...

Direction Ken Yoshida

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Sachiko Sakurai · Maki Mochida · Masaki Kyômoto

Synopsis A high school teacher with a series of misfortunes has his life doomed by falling in love with his troubled student.

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Saburô Bôya · Akira Emoto · Jun Fubuki · Akihiko Hirata

Synopsis A legendary actress thought to be dead is discovered living in an isolated mansion. A screenwriter is tasked with writing her comeback film, which leads the two to live under the same roof.

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Morio Kazama · Tsurutaro Kataoka · Kumiko Akiyoshi · Yûko Natori

Synopsis Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada's ex-wife. Recovering from the shock, Harada indulges in melancholy, mainly on his failure as a husband and father, and goes to...

Direction Banmei Takahashi

Cast Chikako Aoyama · Joe Yamanaka · Shingo Kazami · Chiharu Iwamoto

Synopsis Ai is a call girl and makes 20,000 Yen per hour. But her job involves a lot of risks.

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Kenichi Hagiwara · Yûko Tanaka · Kenji Sawada · Akira Emoto

Synopsis It stars Kenichi Hagiwara as a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.

Direction Akiyoshi Kimata

Cast Kôichi Iwaki · Kenichi Hagiwara · Narumi Yasuda · Toru Minegishi