The story of beautiful Christian Nun, Kyoko (Shihomi) who is the object of affection for two very different men - one the happy-go-lucky Yakuza gangster, Haruhiko (Iwaki Kouchi) who is the ...
Jin (Yakusho), a young, widowed police detective who is thinking of leaving the force to better take care of his 8 year old daughter Misaki (Kanno), by chance arrests Neko (Emoto), an ...
Yoshiaki Masaki left his family for a career as designer in Tokyo. After his father's death he quits job and girlfriend and returns in the small town to take over the family's weaving mill....
The mentally troubled son of a shogun falls for a girl who's been raised in the mountains.
Kengo Yatabe's mother dies and his father is in a coma. He, like his father, was good at kendo. Those days are long gone and he now lofts around as a security guard and generally wastes ...
This 1992 Japanese film tells the story of a scientist who sets out to create the new "super Adam and Eve", humans who cannot be controlled by their emotions. Of course, the end result it ...
A legendary ninja in the Kiryu Clan, Kenzan, engineers his disappearance in front of his ten-year old son, Kagerota, telling him that they will only meet again when Kagerota has grown up ...
An insecure young Asian man, played by Japanese pop star Goro Inagaki, meats an interesting sensual European woman who teaches him the secrets of love and life.
Ikuko is a mature, reserved Kyoto woman married for many years to a respectable, now-middle-aged man. The only problem in their relationship has been that her husband is dissatisfied with ...
A retiring Yakuza gang member and a cop go on a road trip to attend the funeral of a mutual female friend.
Koji, a jazz musician, takes a cigarette break in between sets at a Tokyo nightclub. He witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Linda, who is being pursued by the killers. For the next two...
A mother and daughter living alone in a small village in deep Japan manage to get out of poverty seducing men, who offer their sexual services and then poisoned with a drink similar to sake.
Is it more important for you to remember them or for people to remember you? Two men, one younger and the other older, take a car from Tokyo to the far south of Kyushu all the while ...
A hardened gangster encounters by chance a woman he hasn't seen since childhood. They are both engulfed in the underground world of intergang warfare.
Set in the 19th century, "Moeyo Ken" follows the life of Toshizo Hijikata. He was the vice-commander of the Shinsengumi and fought against the Meiji Restoration.
A modern adaptation of Narayamabushi-ko, The Ballad of Narayama.