Cast: Ryuzo Tanaka

Direction Masahiro Kobayashi

Cast Fusako Urabe · Nene Ohtsuka · Takayuki Katô · Kikujiro Honda

Synopsis Yuko is back in Japan after being freed as a hostage in the Middle East. But six months after, her return is proving to be much more of anordeal. It seems the whole of Japanese society is against her after...

Direction Masahiro Kobayashi

Cast Yuto Kobayashi · Tokio Emoto · Michiko Kichise · Daisuke Maki

Synopsis Kobayashi’s son, Yuto Kobayashi, stars as a down-on-his-luck 16-year-old named Ryo Kawai. Ryo grew up fatherless, and has been trying to make a living by working at a local convenience store ever since his mother was hospitalized with a prolonged...

Direction Masahiro Kobayashi

Cast Teruyuki Kagawa · Seiichi Tanabe · Nene Ohtsuka · Ryuzo Tanaka

Synopsis Kazuo Murata is a detective who has lost his wife and eventually the meaning of his existence.

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Sho Aikawa · Saki Asami · Hiroyuki Nagato · Ken'ichi Endô

Synopsis In addition to churning out crowd-pleasers like Crows Zero, Like a Dragon, and Sukiyaki Western Django, maverick director Miike Takashi also found time to return to theater in 2007. Following 2005's Demon Pond, the ever prolific Miike tries his hand...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Mitsuko Mori · Bunta Sugawara · Koji Ishizaka

Synopsis The Japanese actress and film director Kinuyo Tanaka had a career as significant to that country's movie industry as Lillian Gish's was in the U.S. -- it spanned the early days of silent movies and continued well into the 1970s....

Direction Kôki Yoshida

Cast Ryô Ikeda · Hiroshi Suzuki · Kazuha Komiya · Emi Maki

Synopsis Aoi is a young nursery school teacher whose fiancé leaves her. Her friend Michiko works in a call centre and has ‘lots of free time, but little freedom’. She no longer interacts with her husband, aside from the occasional sad...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Terutake Tsuji · Nobuko Otowa · Kazuki Minabuchi · Leo Morimoto

Synopsis Black Board tells the story of middle school bullying taken to the point of homicide in this 1986 classic.

Direction Shinichi Nakada

Cast Hisashi Igawa · Morio Kazama · Yuko Kazu · Jun Miho

Direction Tôru Ohtsuka · Ryôji Niimura · Hiroyuki Ninomiya

Cast Daisuke Maki · Shiori Kutsuna · Yo Yoshida · Daichi Yamaguchi

Synopsis The doctor and his nurse working together should not be anything extraordinary. However, this doctor is not a conventional one. He does not act the part. He does not look the part. He is rough around the edges. He has...

Direction Kazuya Shiraishi

Cast Gou Ayano · Shido Nakamura · Munetaka Aoki · Pierre Taki