Cast: Akaji Maro

Direction Takeshi Kitano

Cast Takeshi Kitano · Yusuke Sekiguchi · Kayoko Kishimoto · Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Synopsis Kikujiro (1999) follows Masao, a lonely young boy, who embarks on a summer journey to find his estranged mother. Accompanied by Kikujiro, a gruff but kind-hearted man, the pair travels across Japan, encountering a series of eccentric characters and unexpected...

Direction Masaharu Take · Hayato Kawai · Eiji Uchida

Cast Takayuki Yamada · Lily Franky · Takenori Goto · Itsuji Itao

Synopsis Set in the 1980's, "Zenra Kantoku" follows the story of AV Director Toru Muranishi (Takayuki Yamada), who revolutionized the porn industry in the 1980s bubble era Japan.

Direction Toshiaki Toyoda

Cast Kôji Chihara · Yoshio Harada · Jun Inoue · Itsuji Itao

Synopsis Nine convicts escape from prison; most are convicted murders. They commandeer a van from a strip club. Their plan is to find a stash of counterfeit money that a deranged cell mate told them about, divide it, then part ways....

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Michiyo Oguso · Mariko Kaga · Katsuo Nakamura

Synopsis The fever-dream follow-up to his acclaimed "Zigeunerweisen", the enigmatically erotic "Kagero-Za" is the second film in Seijun Suzuki's Taishô Trilogy -- this time set in the disjointed cityscapes and surrounding countryside of 1926 Tokyo.

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Yoshio Harada · Naoko Otani · Toshiya Fujita · Michiyo Oguso

Synopsis Vacationing in a small seaside village, Aochi, a professor of German, runs into Nakasago, a former colleague turned nomad. Nakasago is being pursued by an angry mob for allegedly seducing and killing a fisherman's wife. Police intervene and Aochi vouches...

Direction SABU

Cast Shin'ichi Tsutsumi · Tomorô Taguchi · Diamond Yukai · Akaji Maro

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Sho Aikawa · Shiro Sano · Yu Tokui · Midoriko Kimura

Synopsis A small printing company, Umemoto Insatsu is located on the edge of Osaka. Umemoto (Yu Tokui) who is the owner of the company is living in peace with his family, but suddenly, the peace is broken. The biggest client, Uwazoko-Ya...

Direction Naomi Kawase

Cast Tohta Komizu · Hako Oshima · Tetsuya Akikawa · Kirin Kiki

Synopsis The Asuka region is the birthplace of Japan. Here, in ancient times, there were those who fulfilled their lives in the midst of waiting. Modern people, apparently having lost this sense of waiting, seem unable to feel grateful for the...

Direction Atsushi Yamatoya

Cast Miki Watari · Yuichi Minato · Shôhei Yamamoto · Masayoshi Nogami

Synopsis A private detective is hired to find a woman who has apparently been murdered in a snuff film. It turns out the woman's not dead, but very much alive, and he gets sucked into a torrid affair with her that...

Direction Hajime Gonno · Takashi Motoki

Cast Ryo Ishibashi · Nobuaki Kaneko · Tomomi Maruyama · Kaito Yoshimura

Synopsis Seeking a greater justice, a band of homeless assassins flays their human targets and delivers the tattooed skins as proof of a contract fulfilled.

Direction Hideki Takeuchi

Cast Kumiko Aso · Gackt · Yusuke Iseya · Ryo Kato

Synopsis In a world where people are discriminated based on their birthplace, a resident of the much-reviled Saitama Prefecture embarks on a revolutionary campaign to improve things for his home.

Direction Sion Sono

Cast Shinichirô Arakawa · Akaji Maro · Nobuyoshi Araki · Kazushi Fueki

Synopsis While butoh master Akaji Maro is in rehearsal and fashion designer Shinichiro Arakawa preparing for the Paris collection, filmmaker Sion Sono begins a movie about a high school girl who falls in love... with a restaurant cook she's never even...

Direction Sion Sono

Cast Tetsushi Tanaka · Yuna Natsuo · Jun Murakami · Jô Odagiri

Synopsis Mutsugoro Suzuki, a low-profile, clumsy theater troop actor, sets with his troop colleagues on an oniric journey back to his hometown, marked by his quest to find the responsible of infecting him with a STD. But during this journey he...

Direction Hendrik Willemyns

Cast Kazuhiko Kanayama · Natsuko Kobayashi · Akaji Maro · Shinji Matsubayashi

Synopsis Tokyo. Asuka, a young cleaning lady working the night shift, is ready to pay a high price to achieve her dream of becoming a music star. She manages to perform on a TV-talent show, but all her sacrifices backfire when...

Direction Sion Sono

Cast Ryo Ishibashi · Akaji Maro · Masatoshi Nagase · Saya Hagiwara

Synopsis 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train. This appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country. Does the new all-girl group Desert have anything to do with it? Detective...

Direction Sion Sono

Cast Akaji Maro · Yoriko Douguchi · Shiro Sano · Sayoko Takahashi

Synopsis A quiet killer is looking for a room. The real state agent, shy and expressionless, guides him through all the rooms she can find in Tokyo, but none of these satisfy the killer's request for peace and silence. The real...

Direction Daizaburo Hanada · Jôji Iida · Shunji Iwai · Ryûhei Kitamura

Cast Natsuko Akiyama · Hirofumi Arai · Haruka Ayase · Ryoko Hirosue

Synopsis "The Messenger" is a mysterious woman who appears to a mobster hiding underground to tell him about his ultimate fate. A bag with a "Kendama" ball and string toy gets mixed up with a bag of onions, and leads a...

Direction Tak Sakaguchi · Yudai Yamaguchi

Cast Tak Sakaguchi · Shingo Tsurumi · Mei Kurokawa · Takashi Nishina

Direction Katsuyuki Motohiro

Cast Kou Shibasaki · Tôru Nakamura · Yôsuke Eguchi · Takashi Okamura

Synopsis A Shaolin-trainer young woman returns to Japan to resuscitate her grandfather's defunct martial arts school.

Direction Takashi Shimizu

Cast Kôki · Riku Hagiwara · Keiko Horiuchi · Haruka Imô

Synopsis In a so-called "spirit video", Kanon (Kôki) is astonished to see a high-school girl who looks exactly like her.