Cast: Hiroshi Mikami

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Ken Ogata · Kenji Sawada · Yasosuke Bando · Hiroshi Mikami

Plot Divided into four sections titled "Beauty," "Art," "Action" and "Harmony of Pen and Sword," Mishima is based -- in a fascinating creative choice -- not only on Mishima's life and...

Direction Shunji Iwai

Cast Hiroshi Mikami · Chara · Ayumi Ito · Yôsuke Eguchi

Plot After a young girl's mother dies, she is cared for by Glico, a brassy hooker, who gives the girl the name "Ageha" (Butterfly). Ageha goes to work for a collection...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Ken'ichi Endô · Masatô Ibu · Renji Ishibashi · Hiroshi Mikami

Plot When a convenience store robbery goes wrong and the thieves hole up in a Tokyo hospital, holding more than thirty people hospital, famed negotiator Shuhei Ishida is called in to...

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Hiroshi Mikami · Takeshi Wakamatsu · Keiko Niitaka · Jūzō Itami

Plot In this 50-minute avant-garde film based on a story by the surrealist writer Kyoka Izumi, director Shuji Terayama uses the pretext of a young man’s determination to recover the lyrics...

Direction Ryû Murakami

Cast Miho Nikaido · Sayoko Amano · Tenmei Kano · Kan Mikami

Plot A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some...

Direction Masayuki Ochiai

Cast Hiroshi Mikami · Riona Hazuki · Tomoko Nakajima · Ayako Omura

Plot Toshiaki Nagashima is a biologist who is doing major research on mitochondria. When his beautiful young wife is tragically involved in a car accident which leaves her brain dead, in...

Direction Walerian Borowczyk · Just Jaeckin · Shuji Terayama

Cast Roland Blanche · Laura Gemser · Catherine Gandois · Marpessa Djian

Plot Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and...

Direction Norio Tsuruta

Cast Hiroshi Mikami · Noriko Sakai · Maki Horikita · Mayumi Ono

Plot Satomi finds a newspaper foretelling his daughter's death. Three years later, with Satomi broken by her demise, another newspaper appears predicting doom.

Direction Lam Nai-Choi

Cast Yuen Biao · Gloria Yip · Pauline Wong · Hiroshi Mikami

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Hiroshi Mikami · Miki Sakai · Shinobu Nakayama · Riho Makise

Direction Akio Jissoji

Cast Hiroshi Mikami · Kan'ichi Hiraga · Masami Horiuchi · Keiko Kaga

Plot The landlord of a boarding house in 1923 Tokyo, is keen on spying on the bizarre close encounters taking place beneath his roof. One day he sees a prostitute killing...

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Yoshiko Mita · Hiroshi Mikami · Tatsuya Nakadai · Riho Makise

Direction Fran Rubel Kuzui

Cast Carrie Hamilton · Diamond Yukai · Hiroshi Kobayashi · Hiroshi Sugita

Plot Young female rock singer is not appreciated by her band, gets postcard from Japan saying "wish you were here". Takes what little money she has including ex-boyfriend's rent money and...

Direction Shinji Aoyama

Cast Hiroshi Mikami · Maho Toyota

Direction Kaizô Hayashi

Cast Hiroshi Mikami · Moe Kamura · Michiru Akiyoshi · Yuki Asayama

Plot Two brothers, Jinta and Wataru, are raised in a travelling circus. After an accident, Jinta decides to leave the circus and travels the countryside working as a con-man. After a...

Direction Gaku Narita

Cast Yamashita Tomohisa · Masami Nagasawa · Nana Eikura · Yûta Hiraoka

Plot TV Miniserie (2007). 11 episodes. Ken and Rei have been friends since childhood. Though he has been in love with her for years he was never able to tell her....

Direction Yōjirō Takita

Cast Kyôko Koizumi · Hiroshi Mikami · Hiroyuki Sanada · Masako Motai

Direction Shûichi Okita

Cast Tsutomu Yamazaki · Munetaka Aoki · Yoichi Hayashi · Mitsuro Fukikoshi

Plot Vegetation thrives in painter Morikazu's garden, which is home to creatures that serve as models for his paintings, including numerous bugs and cats. A sweet and heartwarming day begins for...

Direction Setsuo Nakayama

Cast Katsuo Nakamura · Etsuko Ichihara · Michiko Hayashi · Rie Kimura

Direction Naoto Yamakawa

Cast Yoshiki Arizono · Makoto Ayukawa · Yoshio Harada · Toshiyuki Hosokawa

Plot All the protagonists move about in a Tokyo Bar that has an entire wall taken up with a black-and-white reproduction of a photo of Monument Valley. The action starts as...