Makoto Ashikawa

Zatoichi

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he...

Midnight Diner

Set in a small restaurant in the corner of a shopping district. The unusual eatery is only open after midnight,...

Wakako Zake

Murasaki Wakako, who is 26 years old, loves going out alone to enjoy eating and drinking, especially when somet...

Cold Fish

When fish shop owner Shamoto's teenage daughter Mitsuko is caught stealing, a generous middle-aged man named Mu...

Fireworks

Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong....

Kids Return

Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out...

Violent Cop

A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing a...

Kubi

Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His v...

Golden Slumber

When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Ministe...

Ju-on: The Curse

When elementary school teacher Kobayashi investigates the absence of one of his young pupils from the classroom...

Getting Any?

While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrol...

Underdog: Part One

Tells the story of three bottom-dog boxers who gets used as punching bags. Pro boxer Suenaga Akira fell off the...

The Inerasable

A novelist receives a letter from a female university student named Kubo about strange sounds that emanate from...

Boiling Point

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinaw...

Fish Story

A rock band writes a song called "Fish Story" that is foretold to save the world. The song exceeds the boundari...

Takeshis'

Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond looka...

Ju-on: The Curse 2

On his request, the sensitive sister of a real estate agent visits a house he intends to put up for sale, only...

Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen

Ryuzo and his 7 former henchmen are all retired yakuza, but they now live as regular old men. One day, Ryuzo be...

Underdog: Part Two

Suenaga finds his life on the verge of collapsing as violence consumes those around him. However, he finds a wo...

Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel

In 1959, a body of a flight attendant of an international airline is found, strangled. Detective Rokuro Fujisaw...

Weekend Shuffle

First mainstream film directed by Genji Nakamura, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1974 short story of the same titl...

Love Circumstances for Adults

Sensual love story about a single woman struggling with romance. Director Morikawa Kei won the Grand Prix at th...

Around The Table

Haruko is a single mother. She has an unusual living arrangement. She lives with her son Riku, her friend Aiko...

The Booth

Shogo, the arrogant and condescending star of a popular call-in radio-show must temporarily broadcast out of St...

Odayaka

Saeko and Yukako live together in a small apartment complex in Tokyo. After the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, both...

The King of Minami: Fraud Methods

#45 in the series, following "The Men's Past"

September Sky

Kobayashi Isamu, a first-year high school student, lives in a family of four with his father, an artist, his mo...

Parallel and Perpendicular

Daiki has autism spectrum disorder, and his sister Nozomi has supported him since childhood. Having lost their...

The Dork, The Girl, and The Douchebag

A man with a wife and child attempts to run off with a hostess, but he doesn’t show up at the place they agreed...

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