Soundtrack: Kôji Endô

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Masahiro Motoki · Renji Ishibashi · Mako · Yuichi Minato

Synopsis A young Japanese salaryman is sent by his company to a remote Chinese village to evaluate precious Jade that is found there, but before he arrives meets the yakuza who was sent to tail him to protect his bosses interest...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Takayuki Yamada · Yusuke Iseya · Goro Inagaki

Synopsis A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Sho Aikawa · Aiko Satô · Ken'ichi Endô · Sei Hiraizumi

Synopsis Mr. Katayama returns home after a hard day's work, hoping to celebrate his birthday with his wife and small daughter. However, on his way home he runs into a bunch of teens who are beating up a homeless man and...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Naoto Takenaka · Masaya Kato · Mickey Curtis · Takashi Miike

Synopsis A tale of greed, honour and revenge amongst the yakuza, Agitator concerns an executive from the Tenseikai Syndicate attempting to gain power by arranging for two smaller rival gangs - the Shirane and Yokomizo - to unite under his name....

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Kazuki Kitamura · Sho Aikawa · Ryuushi Mizukami · Tomorô Taguchi

Synopsis A troupe of bored small town delinquents travel to Tokyo only to find themselves outclassed by the big city criminals.

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Masaya Sato · Shôko Aida · Naomi Akimoto · Narimi Arimori

Synopsis After his boss is murdered by a hired hit-man. Asuzam known as a fanatically loyal, headstrong and merciless Yakuza sets forth to exact his revenge on the people responsible for his boss's death. Expect a large body-count, lots of hand...

Direction Fruit Chan · Park Chan-wook · Takashi Miike

Cast Bai Ling · Pauline Lau · Tony Leung Ka-Fai · Meme Tian

Synopsis A beautiful female novelist, still guilt-ridden over the childhood death of her twin sister, receives a mysterious invitation to meet at the site of her sister’s demise… more… A retired actress longing to retain her beauty seeks the rejuvenating effects...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Sho Aikawa · Lianmei Chen · Jianqin He · Tomorô Taguchi

Synopsis The second instalment of 'The Triad Society Triliogy' in which Yuuji, a hitman has just been landed with the responsibility of looking after his son.

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Ryo Ishibashi · Eihi Shiina · Tetsu Sawaki · Jun Kunimura

Synopsis A man is asked to sit in on a number of auditions. One of the women presented so interests him that he takes her telephone number. Later, he rings her and sets up a dinner date. But she is not...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Hideki Sone · Sho Aikawa · Kimika Yoshino · Shôhei Hino

Synopsis Minami, a member of the Azamawari crew, highly respects his Aniki (brother) Ozaki who has saved his life in the past. However, lately Ozaki's eccentricities (like claiming that a Chihuahua hs sees is a 'Yakuza attack dog') have been making...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Ken'ichi Endô · Fujiko · Jun Moto · Shoko Nakahara

Synopsis A father, who is a failed former television reporter tries to mount a documentary about violence and sex among youths. He proceeds to have sex with his daughter who is now a prostitute and films his son being humiliated and...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Goro Kishitani · Narimi Arimori · Shingo Yamashiro · Ryôsuke Miki

Synopsis A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However his fear of nothing soon causes problems. Takashi Miike adapts Kinji Fukasaku's 1975 gangster classic Jingi no Hakaba about a doomed love affair...

Direction Takashi Miike · Shin'ya Sugai

Synopsis With a demonic, soul-consuming weapon in hand, a legendary swordsman and a samurai brotherhood struggle to defeat a bloodthirsty zombie uprising.

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Hideaki Ito · Takayuki Yamada · Shôta Sometani · Ruth Sundell

Synopsis A popular high school teacher concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body.

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Masataka Kubota · Shôta Sometani · Nao Omori · Jun Murakami

Synopsis Set over one night in Tokyo, the film will follow Leo, a young boxer down on his luck as he meets his ‘first love’ Monica, a call girl and an addict but still an innocent. Little does Leo know, Monica...

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 Takashi Miike

Cast Kenji Sawada · Keiko Matsuzaka · Shinji Takeda · Yoshiyuki Morishita

Synopsis The Katakuri family has just opened their guesthouse in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest,...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Riki Takeuchi · Sho Aikawa · Renji Ishibashi · Hitoshi Ozawa

Synopsis After a rapid-fire montage of two groups of gangsters, one Japanese, the other ethnic Chinese, killing each other and everybody else on screen, DEAD OR ALIVE's story begins when a police officer announces, "Round up everybody who looks (suspicious), even...

Direction Sanrio · Motonori Sakakibara

Synopsis A lethargic, empathetic road movie about finding one’s parents — for everyone who just wants to laze about! Having resigned itself to the fact that it will just end up on someone’s plate, Gudetama just wants to be lazy all...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Takeshi Caesar · Setsuko Karasuma · Yuki Nagata · Toshikazu Nakaba

Synopsis Including biographical elements, 'Nostalgia' centers around the home and school life of a young boy whose family mix the violent and dysfunctional with the comic and lovable. Though containing elements of the sudden and shocking brutality that many associate with...