Cast: Naomasa Musaka

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 Yukio Ninagawa

Cast Kazunari Ninomiya · Aya Matsuura · Kumiko Akiyoshi · Kansai Yamamoto

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Etsushi Toyokawa · Akira Emoto · Shinobu Otake · Naomasa Musaka

Plot Towards the end of the war, one hundred middle-aged soldiers were sent to the frontline according to lots drawn by their superior officer. On the night of the lottery, a...

Direction Shunji Iwai

Cast Chara · Tadanobu Asano · Koichi Hashizume · Naomasa Musaka

Direction Shinya Tsukamoto

Cast Kaori Fujii · Shinya Tsukamoto · Kôji Tsukamoto · Naoto Takenaka

Plot A businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Tajuki, on the subway. Tajuki is working as a semiprofessional boxer. Tsuda soon begins to suspect that Tajuki might be having an...

Direction Jūzō Itami

Cast Nobuko Miyamoto · Masahiko Tsugawa · Yuji Miyake · Aki Takejô

Direction Yukihiko Tsutsumi

Cast Naoto Takenaka · Teruyuki Kagawa · Renji Ishibashi · Gregory Pekar

Direction Takeshi Kitano

Cast Takeshi Kitano · Kotomi Kyono · Kayoko Kishimoto · Ren Osugi

Plot Shortly after completing Sonatine, director Takeshi Kitano conceived of a film about an ordinary guy who enters an imaginary world inside his own head. This idea comes to fruition in...

Direction Takeshi Kitano

Cast Takeshi Kitano · Toru Emori · Kayoko Kishimoto · Keiko Matsuzaka

Plot Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.

Direction Shinya Tsukamoto

Cast Tomorô Taguchi · Kei Fujiwara · Nobu Kanaoka · Renji Ishibashi

Plot A man is experiencing problems with metal showing up and protruding from his body. Apparently he got a piece of metal in his head when he was hit by a...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Akira Emoto · Daijirô Harada · Mansaku Ikeuchi · Ayumi Ito

Plot Around 1980, two women, a mother and a daughter, the last occupants of a farming village called "Kibogaoka" for Japanese returnees from Manchuria, are slowly starving to death. As one...

Direction Hiromi Kusaka · Yui Miyatake · Shunichi Nagasaki

Cast Inowaki Kai · Yûki Morinaga · Shûhei Nomura · Atsushi Ogata

Plot TV Series(2019). 10 Episodes. An Italian missionary arrived in Japan during the Middle Ages in order to proselytize, evangelize and recruit people to his religion. He instituted seminaries around the...

Direction Shinsuke Sato

Cast Hideaki Ito · Yumiko Shaku · Shiro Sano · Yoichi Numata

Plot In the near future, Japan is ruled once more by a monarchy. But, rebels opposed to this rule seek to overthrow the government. The House of Takemikazuchi, a band of...

Direction Jôji Iida

Cast Yôsuke Eguchi · Miwako Ichikawa · Takashi Kashiwabara · Yukiko Okamoto

Plot A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull open and cooked his brain in a stew. As they...

Direction Katsuo Fukuzawa

Cast Masahiro Nakai · Yukie Nakama · Yuki Shibamoto · Masahiko Nishimura

Plot One relatively peaceful post-war day in Japan, a barber and good family man, is unexpectedly arrested by the Prefectural Police, declared a suspected war criminal, and subsequently sued for murder...

Direction Akio Jissoji

Cast Hiroshi Mikami · Kan'ichi Hiraga · Masami Horiuchi · Keiko Kaga

Plot The landlord of a boarding house in 1923 Tokyo, is keen on spying on the bizarre close encounters taking place beneath his roof. One day he sees a prostitute killing...

Direction Ryo Nishimura · Ootsuka Kyoji

Cast Tsuyoshi Abe · Taisuke Fujigaya · Tomoko Fujita · Eiichirô Funakoshi

Plot In the not too distant future, teachers have been banned from imposing corporal punishment on students. The schools are in chaos but the situation is hopeless. Kamen Teachers are the...

Direction Yukihiko Tsutsumi · Yûsuke Itô · Shin Katô · Arata Kato

Cast Osamu Mukai · Fumino Kimura · Jirô Satô · Shin Takuma

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

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

Plot 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...

Direction Makoto Wada

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Michelle Reis · Akira Emoto · Junichi Haruta

Plot Koji, a jazz musician, takes a cigarette break in between sets at a Tokyo nightclub. He witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Linda, who is being pursued by...