Cast: Taro Suwa

Direction Sion Sono

Cast Morgan Maara · Sen Fujimaru · Riku Kurokouchi · Tatsuhiro Yamaoka

Synopsis A genius film director, Tadashi Kobayashi holds an audition for his new film project. Several actors and actresses answer the open call, but most will only be cast as extras. Can the film come to a completion without accident?

Direction Sion Sono

Cast Shôta Sometani · Fumi Nikaidou · Tetsu Watanabe · Mitsuro Fukikoshi

Synopsis At fifteen, Sumida is left alone to manage the family’s languishing boat-rental business and fend off his drunk and penniless father’s bouts of violence. Sumida sees his simple dream for an ordinary future rapidly evaporating before his eyes. Sharing similarly...

Direction Sion Sono

Cast Mitsuro Fukikoshi · Denden · Asuka Kurosawa · Megumi Kagurazaka

Synopsis This movie was "inspired by true events" known as the "Saitama serial murders of dog lovers"; the convicted killers in the real-life case are Gen Sekine (b. January 2, 1942) and his ex-wife Hiroko Kazama (b. February 19, 1957).

Direction Shunichi Nagasaki

Cast Akihito Yagi · Tatsuya Naka · Yuji Suzuki · Kenji Anan

Synopsis It is the early 1930s and Japan has annexed the Manchurian region of northern China. Its imperialist ambitions have been unleashed, and storm clouds are slowly forming. On the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, the techniques and traditions of karate...

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Sylvie Testud · Kaori Tsuji · Taro Suwa · Bison Katayama

Synopsis Amélie, a dreamy and romantic young Belgian woman, arrives in Japan to begin work as a translator for the giant Yumimoto Corporation. For Amélie, who spent her childhood in Japan, this is a dream come true. It is her chance...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Aki Maeda · Tatsuya Fujiwara · Chiaki Kuriyama · Taro Yamamoto

Synopsis In Battle Royale (2000), a dystopian Japanese government forces a class of high school students to compete in a brutal survival game. Each student is given random weapons and sent to a deserted island, where they must fight to the...

Direction Koto Nagata · Kazuya Konaka · Dan Matsumoto · Takashi Ninomiya

Cast Honoka Miki · Yûki Furukawa · Tomomi Nishimura · Yoji Tanaka

Synopsis Kotoko Aihara isn't very intelligent and lacks ability in school. She is in class F, the least smartest class in her grade. Despite this, she has been in love with the school's most handsome and most intelligent guy, Naoki Irie,...

Direction Takashi Shimizu

Cast Yûrei Yanagi · Chiaki Kuriyama · Hitomi Miwa · Taro Suwa

Synopsis Jealous of his wifes love for another man, a teacher from her high school, a man brutally kills his wife and young son. Searching for the son who has missed a lot of school, the teacher enters their house, only...

Direction SABU

Cast Chang Chen · Shô Aoyagi · Yi-Ti Yao · Runyin Bai

Synopsis Professional hitman Long takes on an assignment in Japan. When things go awry, he has to flee. Badly injured, he takes refuge in a deserted part of a small town. A young boy brings him water and clothing. Long installs...

Direction Shinji Aoyama

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Ken Mitsuishi · Yoichiro Saito · Hiroko Isayama

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Kazuki Kitamura · Goro Kishitani · Sho Aikawa · Yosiyoshi Arakawa

Synopsis Based on the Sega PlayStation 2 computer game "Yakuza". It's 88°F, and rising, in summertime Tokyo, and the cops, led by sardonic vet Makoto Date (Yutaka Matsushige), are complaining about the air-conditioning as they stake out an ongoing bank robbery...

Direction Yoichi Sai

Cast Ken'ichi Matsuyama · Koyuki · Suzuka Ohgo · Ekin Cheng

Synopsis An adaptation of manga series The Legend of Kamui (1964-71). An orphan cast out of his village, Kamui (Matsuyama Kenichi, Death Note) joined a ninja clan at a young age and became a deadly assassin. Now an adult, he’s grown...

Direction Noboru Iguchi

Cast Minase Yashiro · Asami · Honoka Ishibashi · Yûya Ishikawa

Synopsis The life of a young, Japanese schoolgirl is destroyed when her family is killed by a Ninja-Yakuza family. Her hand cut off, she replaces it with various machines-of-death, and seeks revenge.

Direction Higuchinsky

Cast Eriko Hatsune · Fhi Fan · Hinako Saeki · Ren Osugi

Synopsis In a small town in Japan, Kirie comes upon her boyfriend's father silently videotaping a snail. He seems unaware of her presence and she thinks no more of it. Later, the mans obsession with spirals becomes more and more bizarre,...

Direction Hideo Nakata

Cast Kanna Hashimoto · Mayu Hotta · Kenta Izuka · Yuki Kura

Synopsis After beloved wife and mother Miyuki tragically dies, her little son chants a resurrection spell in the hope of reviving her. But something evil is pulsing underground, and a child's pure wish awakens a vengeful monster.

Direction Yôhei Fukuda

Cast Satoshi Hakuzen · Manami Hashimoto · Ai Hazuki · Hiroaki Kawatsure

Synopsis A devious corporation’s experiments in the resurrection of the dead have left the world overrun with shambling cannibal zombies. What remains of living society has devolved into paranoid, violent scavenger packs. Out back of a disused warehouse, in which a...

Direction Noboru Iguchi

Cast Asami · Yuka Eda · Akiko Ikuina · Kanji Tsuda

Direction Atsushi Funahashi

Cast Marika Matsumoto · Riki Miura · Takahiro Miura · Yûshi Ozawa

Synopsis A young woman Shiori faces an accidental death of her beloved husband at a local industrial town, recovering from the 3.11 Tsunami disaster. Once detesting, Shiori is hesitant to admit her attraction for Takumi, the reason for the death of...

Direction Ryûichi Inomata · Noriyoshi Sakuma · Nobuyoshi Yamada

Cast Tôru Nakamura · Ayako Imoto · Yûdai Chiba · Zen Kajiwara

Synopsis Mini Series (2016). 20 Episodes. Machi Sangenya is an excellent real estate agent who will do anything to sell the property to her customers, including meeting their families and solving their personal problems.

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Sho Aikawa · Shun Sugata · Chikako Kobayashi · Tonbo Zushi

Synopsis In this follow-up to The Revenge: Visitor of Fate, it is now 5 years after Anjo lost his wife and left the force. He's now living under an assumed name and working as a hitman for a very small group...