Cast: Shinji Takeda

Direction Tetsuya Nakashima

Cast Miki Nakatani · Eita · Yusuke Iseya · Teruyuki Kagawa

Synopsis It is the present day and Matsuko's nephew, Sho, is cleaning out his dead aunt's filthy apartment. Through a series of encounters, he gradually learns of his aunt's checkered life. Matsuko, in fact, seems at time to be speaking to...

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Shinji Aoyama · Yôko Oguchi · Miako Tadano · Shinji Takeda

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Kenji Sawada · Keiko Matsuzaka · Shinji Takeda · Yoshiyuki Morishita

Synopsis The Katakuri family has just opened their guesthouse in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest,...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Ryuhei Matsuda · Tadanobu Asano · Takeshi Kitano · Yoichi Sai

Synopsis Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named...

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Haruhiko Kato · Kumiko Aso · Koyuki · Shun Sugata

Synopsis Japanese teens investigate a series of suicides linked to an internet webcam that promises visitors the chance to interact with the dead.

Direction Jean-Pierre Limosin

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

Direction Hideo Nakata

Cast Tatsuya Fujiwara · Haruka Ayase · Satomi Ishihara · Shinji Takeda

Synopsis Ten people who agree to take the same lucrative "job" find themselves locked in an underground complex and forced to play a murder game for seven days.

Direction Issei Oda

Cast Pinko Izumi · Juri Ueno · Mari Yaguchi · Zhuang Zhang

Synopsis A young martial arts student gets caught up in a series of Kung Fu adventures with a woman who manages a Chinese restaurant.

Direction Munenobu Yamauchi · Makito Murakami · Akimitsu Sasaki

Cast Rena Tanaka · Ryoko Kuninaka · Rie Tomosaka · Kenta Kiritani

Synopsis Five former school classmates receive an email from a girl who was their classmate, but disappeared on a school trip 20 years ago. That email causes the five of them to meet once again. They try to investigate but before...

Direction Kazuki Omori

Cast Miho Kanno · Miki Mizuno · Miki Nakatani · Shinji Takeda

Direction Ryûhei Kitamura

Cast Shinji Takeda · Nori Satô · Eiichirô Funakoshi · Kôhei Ôtomo

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Hironobu Nomura · Narumi Yasuda · Takaaki Enoki · Ryo Tamura

Synopsis During the late Heian era in Japan a famous duel took place between the warrior monk Musashibo Benkei and a slender young man of high rank named Shanao. This was the battle at Gojo Bridge, and while Benkei had taken...

Direction Mika Ninagawa

Cast Tina Tamashiro · Shun Oguri · Tatsuya Fujiwara · Masataka Kubota

Synopsis When a job seeker finds one through a job board she soon finds a whole lot more than for which she bargained. In fact, this job could be hazardous to her health and life. Is it a high risk position?...

Direction Daiki Yamada

Cast Kiyotaka Nanbara · Teruyoshi Uchimura · Yôsuke Eguchi · Tomoko Yamaguchi

Synopsis Several otaku band together to save the baby of a Filipina mother.

Direction Itsumichi Isomura · Shinobu Yaguchi

Cast Ryôhei Abe · Yoshikazu Ebisu · Miki Hayashida · Ayumi Ito

Synopsis "Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as "Kayokyoku". Kayokyoku is a catch-all term to describe the music that defined two generations of post-war Japan. Although the term survives, it has a strong...

Direction Izaki Nobuaki

Cast Takaya Kamikawa · Denden · Aya Hirayama · Hirotarô Honda

Synopsis Ippei Akabane (Takaya Kamikawa) is an unpopular novelist. He barely makes ends meet writing serials novels under different pen names. Daigo Kurei (Shinji Takeda) is on death row. He killed four women twelve years ago. During his murdering spree, he...

Direction Banmei Takahashi

Cast Sawa Suzuki · Reiko Kataoka · Aya Sugimoto · Yôko Nakajima

Synopsis A look a the lives of two sex workers in Tokyo: Rei, who works as an S&M dominatrix, and Ayumi, in the more straightforward profession of call girl. In addition to their working life, the film also looks at their...

Direction Masato Harada

Cast Jun Hashimoto · Hana Hizuki · Hyunri · Misuzu Kanno

Synopsis Set in the Edo period during a time when the divorce rate was actually 2x higher than the present day. A thrift ordinance has been announced by the government and the lives of common people get worse. During this time,...

Direction Shuta Takahata

Cast Kôda Kumi · Yûko Itô · Megumi · Shinji Takeda

Synopsis Japanese Charlie's Angels kick butt led by pop sensation Koda Kumi.

Direction Toshio Tsuboi · Takeyoshi Yamamoto · Nobuhiro Doi

Cast Haru Kuroki · Issey Takahashi · Tomoya Nakamura · Mikako Ichikawa

Synopsis TV series (9019). 10 episodes. Nagi's curly hair is not her ideal so she spends a long time straightening it every day. Growing tired of it all and being triggered she becomes a hermit and goes for broke one day...