Cast: Kôjun Itô

Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov

Cast Issei Ogata · Robert Dawson · Kaori Momoi · Shiro Sano

Plot Susan Sontag, the recently departed intellectual and devout cinephile, proclaimed Alexander Sokurov to be the most ambitious and original director of his generation. From the technically audacious costume drama Russian...

Direction Takeshi Kitano

Cast Tatsuya Fuji · Masaomi Kondo · Akira Nakao · Masanobu Katsumura

Plot Ryuzo (Tatsuya Fuji) and his 7 former henchmen are all retired yakuza, but they now live as regular old men. One day, Ryuzo becomes the victim of a phishing fraud....

Direction Yoshinari Nishikôri

Cast Jun Yoshinaga · Shiro Sano · Inowaki Kai · Takashi Sasano

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Takako Tokiwa · Yusuke Iseya · Teruyuki Kagawa · Taro Yamamoto

Plot It is set in Manchukuo during World War II.

Direction Masahiko Nagasawa

Cast Takashi Sorimachi · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Kankurô Kudô · Shôfukutei Tsurube

Plot Based on an award-winning novel by Kazuaki Takano, the thriller stars veteran actor Tsutomu Yamazaki (of “Tampopo” fame, brilliant as usual here) as an aging prison guard who is hired...