Cast: Shiro Sano

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 Ryoichi Kimizuka

Cast Koichi Sato · Mirai Shida · Ryuhei Matsuda · Yuriko Ishida

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Ken'ichi Endô · Masatô Ibu · Renji Ishibashi · Hiroshi Mikami

Plot When a convenience store robbery goes wrong and the thieves hole up in a Tokyo hospital, holding more than thirty people hospital, famed negotiator Shuhei Ishida is called in to...

Direction Takeshi Kitano

Cast Takeshi Kitano · Maiko Kawakami · Makoto Ashikawa · Sei Hiraizumi

Plot Detective Azuma is a Dirty-Harry style rogue cop who often uses violence and unethical methods to get results. While investigating a series of drug-related homicides, Azuma discovers that his friend...

Direction Shusuke Kaneko

Cast Chiharu Nîyama · Ryudo Uzaki · Masahiro Kobayashi · Shiro Sano

Plot Three ancient guardian beasts awaken to protect Japan against Godzilla.

Direction Yukihiko Tsutsumi

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

Direction Yukihiko Tsutsumi

Cast Toshiaki Karasawa · Etsushi Toyokawa · Takako Tokiwa · Teruyuki Kagawa

Plot 20th Century Boys centers around normal, average guy Kenji [Casshern’s Toshiaki Karasawa], who has turned into a mere shadow of his rebellious, determined childhood self. He runs a failing convenience...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Sho Aikawa · Shiro Sano · Yu Tokui · Midoriko Kimura

Plot A small printing company, Umemoto Insatsu is located on the edge of Osaka. Umemoto (Yu Tokui) who is the owner of the company is living in peace with his family,...

Direction Rintaro Mayuzumi · Kazuyoshi Okuyama

Cast Masahiro Motoki · Naoto Takenaka · Michiko Hada · Teruyuki Kagawa

Plot Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning...

Direction Sion Sono

Cast Akaji Maro · Yoriko Douguchi · Shiro Sano · Sayoko Takahashi

Plot A quiet killer is looking for a room. The real state agent, shy and expressionless, guides him through all the rooms she can find in Tokyo, but none of these...

Direction Setsurô Wakamatsu

Cast Ken Watanabe · Koichi Sato · Riho Yoshioka · Masato Hagiwara

Plot Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake...

Direction Takao Okawara

Cast Takehiro Murata · Hiroshi Abe · Naomi Nishida · Mayu Suzuki

Plot Godzilla saves Tokyo from a flying saucer that transforms into the beast Orga.

Direction Izo Hashimoto

Cast Rie Kondoh · Shôta Enomoto · Shino Ikenami · Shiro Sano

Plot A female projectionist is haunted by the image of a small boy. Perhaps driven by insanity from a former abortion she goes on a killing spree, gutting women and removing...

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 Masayuki Ochiai

Cast Koichi Sato · Masanobu Takashima · Mari Hoshino · Michiko Hada

Plot In a general hospital near bankruptcy, the reduced staff is working under a severe stress. During the emergency attendance to a burned patient with Dr. Uozumi (Masanobu Takashima) and two...

Direction Isshin Inudô · Hideki Kuroda · Yoshio Kuroda · Satoshi Nagai

Cast Yûki Amami · Yosiyoshi Arakawa · Noriko Eguchi · Randy Goins

Direction Hiroshi Nishitani

Cast Yûji Oda · Yûki Amami · Koichi Sato · Erika Toda

Plot Kosaku Kuroda is a foreign diplomat working in the Rome, Italy. He investigates the case of a young Japanese girl kidnapped at Christmas.

Direction Yoshinari Nishikôri

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

Direction Tsubota Yoshifumi

Cast Kenji Mizuhashi · Marie Machida · Shoichi Honda · Anji

Direction Takahisa Zeze

Cast Shiro Sano · Masao Adachi · Akira Emoto · Maho Yamada

Plot Questioning the meaning of people’s lives, the multiple stories include the work of a manga artist, old men get involved in a fight and a murder, a bus incident which...