Cast: Daisuke Iijima

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Mickey Curtis · Daisuke Iijima · Hiroyuki Ikeuchi · Akira Ishige

Plot Ambitious yakuza Kenji befriends harmonica-playing bartender Chuji, who moonlights as a part-time drug-dealer for the opposing gang. Their friendship is threatened by Kenji's plans for advancement, as well as by...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Ryuhei Matsuda · Tadanobu Asano · Takeshi Kitano · Yoichi Sai

Plot Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the...

Direction Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Shinobu Terajima · Shima Ohnishi · Keigo Kasuya · Emi Masuda

Plot If there is a filmmaker who always maintains a radical tone, that’s Koji Wakamatsu. Politically–take his politically active films, from the sixties– as well as formally. Wakamatsu settles into the...

Direction Takashi Ishii

Cast Yûki Amami · Takeshi Yamato · Reiko Kataoka · Yôzaburô Itô

Plot Assassin Mayo is contracted to kill a yakuza, but misses and kills an innocent bystander. Then she recognises the bodyguard of the yakuza as a man who once saved her...

Direction Takashi Ishii

Cast Riona Hazuki · Reiko Takashima · Jinpachi Nezu · Kippei Shiina

Plot Ikko, the six year old daughter of a yakuza gang boss witnesses the brutal slaying of her parents and is only saved from sharing their fate by an underground hitwoman...

Direction Takashi Ishii

Cast Harumi Inoue · Shingo Tsurumi · Kazuki Kitamura · Matsuoka Shunsuke

Plot Chihiro is raped by three men and it is captured on video camera. She leaves her hometown and prepares to marry a colleague five years later, when one of the...

Direction Takashi Ishii

Cast Ken Ogata · Shinobu Otake · Kimiko Yo · Mai Kitajima

Direction Takao Nakano

Cast Sora Aoi · Io Aikawa · Saori Andô · Kaworu Asakusa

Plot Five exotic dancers—busty slut Lena Jodo (AV star Sora Aoi), sexy redhead lolita goth Maria (Mari Sakurai), ex-jailbird Ginko (Risa Kasumi), immigrant Darna (Io Aikawa) and older stripper Nene (Tamayo)—discover...

Direction Tsubota Yoshifumi

Cast Kenji Mizuhashi · Marie Machida · Shoichi Honda · Anji

Direction Hisayasu Sato

Cast Tomori Abe · Shun Asada · Kei Fujiwara · Daisuke Iijima

Plot Transfer student Mizuki is bullied mercilessly by her classmate. Nevertheless, she is always able to maintain her composure. Kirie, who is also bullied, becomes interested in Mizuki and longs for...

Direction Kazuki Omori

Cast Kôji Kikkawa · Tatsuo Yamada · Yoko Katori · Miyoko Akaza

Plot Yuji decides to run away from home to become an actor. Along the way, he meets Yoshio, an aspiring rock musician and Ami, an idol who, despite her success, is...

Direction Takahisa Zeze

Cast Fujiko · Daisuke Iijima · Yoichiro Ito · Takehito Kotani

Plot Japanese 'pink' filmmaker Takahisa Zeze directs this highly stylised and almost dialogue-free film, which has its roots in the brutal and erotic but has made the crossover to arthouse cinema....

Direction Takashi Ishii

Cast Harumi Inoue · Machiko Kochi · Shinobu Otake · Hiroko Satô

Plot A beautiful mother and her two daughters run a bar in a town. They have a dream of becoming rich, reforming the building, and living as celebrities. With no chance...

Direction Genji Nakamura

Cast Miki Takakura · Kazuhiro Yamaji · Maya Itô · Daisuke Iijima

Plot A mailman becomes obsessed with a pretty, young wife. He captures the woman, tortures her and keeps her in his basement dungeon where she becomes his private sex toy.

Direction Takashi Ishii

Cast Maiko Kawakami · Jinpachi Nezu · Noriko Hayami · Shingo Tsurumi

Plot Nami is a photographer on the set of a porn film. When photographing a rape scene between a teacher and a schoolgirl, she becomes uncomfortable, having remembered a similar incident...

Direction Takahisa Zeze

Cast Kokone Sasaki · Shima Ohnishi · Tomori Abe · Daisuke Iijima

Plot Masao (Kokone Sasaki) was once famous for having supernatural powers, but she now lives as a prostitute. Her special power is to know when a person will die by touching...

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Kazuhiko Nishimura · Kentarô Nakakura · Megumi Kanzaki · Ren Osugi

Plot Tachibana Wataru, a doomed genius bicycle racer who is determined to win the race with a single victory. Director Kurosawa passionately and dramatically depicts Wataru’s fighting spirit against the prince...

Direction Shunya Ito

Cast Min Tanaka · Mizuki Doki · Ken Furusawa · Daisuke Iijima

Direction Isao Yamada

Cast Cosmosco · Kinue Fuji · Ginpachi Ginza · Daisuke Iijima

Plot Adapted from the very famous japanese fantasy books illustrator Yoshiharu Tsuge, this bizarre yet stunning beautiful film is directed by Isao Yamada (1952 -). In 1974, he joined the famous...

Direction Kazuo Hara

Cast Kumi Hirose · Daisuke Iijima · Kumija Kim · Yoshikazu Kotani

Plot Director Kazuo Hara tells the tale of the eponymous Chika and four different relationships she has during the turbulent political climate of the 1970s. Four different actresses play the role...