Cast: Noboru Mitani

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Tetsurô Tanba · Sachiko Hidari · Shinjiro Ebara · Isao Natsuyagi

Synopsis Japanese auteur Kinji Fukasaku examines the trauma of World War II in his home country in the docu-drama UNDER THE FLAG OF THE RISING SUN (GUNKI HATAMEKU MOTONI). Taking his cue from HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR, Fukasaku combines a fictional drama...

Direction Jūzō Itami

Cast Yasuo Daichi · Nobuko Miyamoto · Kôichi Ueda · Mirei Asaoka

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Noboru Andô · Mayumi Nagisa · Asao Koike

Synopsis Street mobster Isamu Okita likes fighting and girls, and is just out of prison for killing a rival in a bath-house. On release, he finds things have changed: old gangs no longer have the power they once enjoyed. So he...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Noriko Kurosawa · Toshiyuki Hosokawa · Osahide Takahashi · Kôji Moritsugu

Synopsis A young woman undergoes psychiatric treatment after she no longer hears music and develops sexual hang-ups. Based on a novel by Yukio Mishima.

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Hiroyuki Kawase · Noboru Mitani

Direction Masayuki Ochiai

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

Synopsis 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 desperation he steals her liver from her body in order...

Direction Norifumi Suzuki

Cast Yuka Asagiri · Yûko Asuka · Shun Domon · Hiromi Namino

Synopsis The film is based on 5-part animated series which itself was based on Masaaki Soto's adult manga. A young student is seemingly normal, but keeps a savage torture/bondage chamber in his cellar (he lives alone in a big house once...

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Junko Miyashita · Renji Ishibashi · Ako · Moeko Ezawa

Synopsis At his working place, Kozo and his colleague gangrape the boss' teenage daughter. Then, on the highway, he picks up a red-haired woman walking on the road back to his home. She ends up staying the night. Later, the woman...

Direction Toshiharu Ikeda

Cast Miyuki Ono · Aya Katsuragi · Hitomi Kobayashi · Eriko Nakagawa

Synopsis Nami hosts a late night home video program. She receives a tape which appears to be a real snuff film. She and her crew investigate the location where she meets a man looking for his brother who warns her to...

Direction Kentaro Horikirizono · Tsuyoshi Inoue · Keishi Ohtomo

Cast Ian Moore · Cynthia Cheston · Manami Fuji · Seiichi Kanise

Direction Macoto Tezuka

Cast Masao Kusakari · Kaori Mizushima · Eisei Amamoto · Shôji Nakayama

Synopsis A major electronics company on the verge of developing technology to create a 3D image that can be physically handled is thrown into turmoil when a murderous demon is unleashed in the headquarters office. Can the slow witted son of...

Direction Toshiharu Ikeda

Cast Naomi Kawashima · Akira Emoto · Mikio Ohsawa · Kenji Imai

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Kenichi Hagiwara · Mitsuko Baisho · Keiko Takahashi · Kaoru Kobayashi

Synopsis An adult 's romantic drama depicting the conflict between the husband who ran to the woman and the conflicts of the remaining wife who knew that there was not a long life left by an old lover. Tomohiro Takehara of...

Direction Eizô Sugawa

Cast Toshiyuki Hosokawa · Eri Ishida · Mariko Kaga · Shinnosuke Furumoto

Synopsis A strange fantasy depicting the love between a gradually rejuvenating woman and a very ordinary middle-aged man.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Yutaka Mizutani · Toshiyuki Nagashima · Rie Nakahara · Etsuko Ichihara

Synopsis The plot of "Lonely Heart" concerns a gunman who murders all the occupants of a bookstore. But this quickly becomes the story of the policemen who investigate the crime. One of them was engaged to one of the victims and...

Direction Shun Nakahara

Cast Setsuko Karasuma · Toshinori Omi · Ako · Natsuki Asakawa

Direction Jô Odagiri

Cast Jun'ichi Komoto · Sabu Kawahara · Noboru Mitani · Jô Odagiri

Synopsis A hospitalized man receives mysterious postcards featuring cherry blossoms, and his grandson is determined to find their origins.

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Maki Miyamoto · Sumiko Fuji · Kaho Minami · Masahiko Tsugawa

Synopsis Japan, 1958. The Japanese government is about to introduce and enforce the Anti-Prostitution Act, effectively outlawing prostitution. But the new laws do not have any effect on the Fujinoya Geisha House, still run in the traditional, centuries-old manner. The Geisha...

Direction Chusei Sone

Cast Hitomi Sakae · Kunio Ôtsuka · Hitoshi Takagi · Noboru Mitani

Synopsis Mejika, a pretty Eurasian mestizo, is hired to teach Biology at a high school famous for her discipline. The unprejudiced attitudes of Mejika soon end up unsettling the management.

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Kunie Tanaka · Noboru Mitani · Yôko Mihara

Synopsis Bunta Sugawara stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s released he finds everything completely changed and his gang has swept him aside for being too violent. He tries to...