Cast: Shiro Sano

Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov

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

Synopsis 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 Ark - shot in a single take in the Hermitage...

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

Synopsis 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 handle the case. But there is a complication: Ishida’s cancer...

Direction Takeshi Kitano

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

Synopsis 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 and colleague, Iwaki, is supplying drugs from within the police...

Direction Shusuke Kaneko

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 Store [the backbone of Japanese Society surely] with his battleaxe...

Direction Takashi Miike

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

Synopsis 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, but suddenly, the peace is broken. The biggest client, Uwazoko-Ya...

Direction Rintaro Mayuzumi · Kazuyoshi Okuyama

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

Synopsis 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 his drafts, his publisher shows him a newspaper with an...

Direction Sion Sono

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

Synopsis 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 satisfy the killer's request for peace and silence. The real...

Direction Setsurô Wakamatsu

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

Synopsis 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 an tsunami in 2011.

Direction Takao Okawara

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 their stomaches. Her relationship with her attractive and successful friend...

Direction Shinsuke Sato

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

Synopsis 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 assassins is hired by the government to suppress the rebels....

Direction Masayuki Ochiai

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

Synopsis 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 other nurses, Dr. Akiba (Kôichi Satô) and the nurse commit...

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 affects those who survive it, fishing, cherry-blossom viewing and more.