Cinematography: Seizô Sengen

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Tetsuo Abe · Fumio Watanabe · Akiko Koyama · Tsuyoshi Kinoshita

Plot A film that may be less obviously formally experimental than some of Oshima's contemporary works, but is no less politically charged, Boy follows in the footsteps of Death by Hanging...

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Hiroko Yakushimaru · Tsunehiko Watase · Rentarô Mikuni

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Hiroko Yakushimaru · Hiroyuki Sanada · Sonny Chiba · Etsuko Shihomi

Plot The story follows Shizu-hime (Hiroko Yakushimaru), her family slain and on the run from her enemies. As she escapes she is found by the vagabond Shinbei (Hiroyuki Sanada), before being...

Direction Shôji Kôkami

Cast Hiroaki Murakami · Sayuri Kokushô · Satomi Tezuka · Hitomi Takahashi

Direction Yusaku Matsuda

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Ryo Ishibashi · Satomi Tezuka · Ryûji Katagiri

Plot The story of Kaze; where he comes from and where he is going, nobody knows. A man without a real name and past, and without memory.

Direction Haruki Kadokawa

Cast Tomoyo Harada · Mitsuko Baisho · Tsunehiko Watase

Plot Miho Nakamichi, an orphan adopted by Haruko, dreams to star in a musical. One day, Haruko promised Miho that she could go on a journey to find her real father,...

Direction Shinichirô Sawai

Cast Hiroko Yakushimaru · Yoshiko Mita · Masanori Sera · Yumi Kusaka

Plot Young college student Shizuka is given the opportunity to act in a stage play with professionals. Shizuka is willing to go to great lengths to master this role of a...

Direction Toru Murakawa

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Aiko Morishita · Lily · Yoshio Aoki

Direction Eiichi Kudo

Cast Yusaku Matsuda

Plot BJ is a relatively unknown blues singer who scraps some bars in Yokohama. He does not earn much with it and to make ends meet he also acts as a...

Direction Kohei Sengen

Cast Kazunari Yanagitani · Junpei Kawate · Yuta Inamatsu · Mayu Matsumori

Plot The story of a young man named Y, filmed in 8mm to poetically portray friendship, love, the bond between mother-and-son, and repression within a group led by "Great Uncle" and...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Eiji Okada

Plot The story of a family of foxes struggling to survive in the hostile environment of northern Japan.

Direction Haruki Kadokawa

Cast Masao Kusakari · Rebecca Holden · Nana Kinomi · Atsuko Asano

Plot The story of Kitano Akio competing in the All-Japan Road Race Championship, the International Class A 500cc class.

Direction Shinichirô Sawai

Cast Mariko Ishihara · Ken Ishiguro · Masatô Ibu · Yumiko Fujita

Direction Jin Tatsumura

Cast Eikichi Yazawa · Johnny Okura · Yuya Uchida · Toshikatsu Utsumi

Plot Identity and integrity are discussed in connection with a tour of Japanese rock band 'Carol'.

Direction Shinichirô Sawai

Cast Kyôhei Shibata · Takaaki Enoki · Tôru Nakamura · Yôko Minamino

Plot Fukuzawa Yukichi opens a school for samurai, who aim to learn Dutch language, most common for overseas trading. But when he was in Yokohama he learned that English language is...

Direction Toru Murakawa

Cast Isao Natsuyagi · Katsu Ryuzaki · Akira Nakao · Yôko Shimada

Plot An elite college graduates in the 1950's will commit perfect financial crimes through legal loopholes.

Direction Kazuki Omori

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Ken Ogata · Yûko Kotegawa · Tatsuo Umemiya

Plot A stockbroker turned yakuza has been ordered to ask the boss of another yakuza outfit to be the substitute emcee of a succession ceremony - the passing of the baton...

Direction Toru Murakawa

Cast Hiroshi Tachi · Yutaka Nakajima · Yuji Honma · Kazumi Sawada

Plot Two killers revenge a wirepuller of the underworld in Yokohama.

Direction Shinichirô Sawai

Cast Tomoyo Harada · Ryuzo Hayashi · Kunie Tanaka · Saori Yuki

Plot A university student Hitomi falls in love with a middle-aged man Okawa, who was the lover of her deceased mother. Hitomi's feelings shift back and forth as she is not...

Direction Toru Murakawa

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Jun Fubuki · Kei Sato · Mikio Narita

Plot Yusaka Matsuda stars as a seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salary man who leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to...