Cast: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Direction Kent Jones

Cast Martin Scorsese · Elias Koteas · Roger Corman · Glen Gabbard

Plot Martin Scorsese narrates this tribute to Val Lewton, the producer of a series of memorable low-budget horror films for RKO Studios. Raised by his mother and his aunt, his films...

Direction Kent Jones

Cast David Fincher · Martin Scorsese · Wes Anderson · Richard Linklater

Plot Filmmakers discuss how Francois Truffaut's 1966 book "Cinema According to Hitchcock" influenced their work.

Direction Jūzō Itami

Cast Tsutomu Yamazaki · Nobuko Miyamoto · Kin Sugai · Hideji Ôtaki

Plot The debut film from acclaimed Japanese director, Juzo Itami shows a very untraditional side to a very traditional ceremony. When Chizuko's (Nobuko Miyamoto) ornery father unexpectedly dies, the undertaking of...

Direction Kôji Shiraishi

Cast Kôji Shiraishi · Shinobu Kuribayashi · Akira Takatsuki · Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Direction Yves Montmayeur

Cast Kiyoshi Kurosawa · Takashi Shimizu · Hideo Nakata · Junji Ito

Plot An exploration of the spirit world as portrayed in the height of the J-horror era of the late ‘90s.

Direction Satoo Haraguchi · Tomo'o Haraguchi

Cast Hiroshi Atsumi · Sandayû Dokumamushi · Yoriko Douguchi · Kenji Hayami

Plot At the end of the second world war the Japanese buried one of their projects to make a super armored soldier. Almost fifty years later it wakes up and begins...

Direction Shunya Ito

Cast Kinji Fukasaku · Yoshiho Fukuoka · Yoshio Harada · Hiroki Hayashi

Direction André S. Labarthe · Janine Bazin · Jean-Pierre Limosin · Chris Marker

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Mathieu Amalric · Jean-François Stévenin · Daniel Auteuil

Plot TV Series (1988-Present Day).

Direction Sarah Appleton · Jasper Sharp

Cast Takako Fuji · Jôji Iida · Rie Ino'o · Teruyoshi Ishii

Plot Charting the origins of Japanese horror films at the turn of the millennium, films featuring vengeful ghosts manifesting themselves through contemporary technology against a backdrop of urban alienation and social...

Cast Yoichi Numata · Chiho Katsura · Ichirô Miyagawa · Kensuke Suzuki

Plot Documentary about director Nobuo Nakagawa and the making of the film, Jigoku.

Direction Kenjirô Fujii

Cast Masao Adachi · Yoshiyuki Hayashida · Yutaka Ikejima · Kazuyuki Izutsu

Plot Documentary filmmaker Kenjiro Fujii takes a look at the history of a distinctly Japanese brand of softcore pornography in this extensive examination of the “pinku eiga” genre.