Shima Onishi

Folklore

Bringing together some of the most talented Asian directors working within the genre sphere, this new anthology...

House of the Owl

At the height of his career and powers, Japan's master fixer, who has guided politicians and business heads thr...

A Little Room for Hope

A girl (Anna Yamada) is just 14-years-old, but she endures a difficult life. Her parents abuse her at home and...

Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning

Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gentle Tomoe Yu...

A Fool's Love

Kawai Joji, an aspiring screenwriter who has won a screenplay competition but has yet to make his professional...

The Tragedy of M

Ever since his boyhood experience with a burglar in his house, Mamoru has made security a major theme in his li...

Yokokuhan: The Pain

Eiji Sakuma is a judge. He also leads the group Shinbunshi in secret The group holds court on a video site and...

Blade of the Immortal

Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the bruta...

MOTHER

Shuhei is leading a tough life. His alcoholic mother Akiko can only hook up with bad guys and order Shuhei to g...

Tokyo 23-ku Onna

Freelance writer Ririko Harada and folklore expert Hitoshi Shimano explore Tokyo’s 23 wards, uncovering chillin...

柴公園

Caterpillar

The story of a village woman given the grueling task of looking after (and fulfilling the sexual needs of) her...

64: Part 1

1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64...

The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine

In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and...

64: Part 2

1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64...

Manji

Sonoko, a bored married woman, falls for a fellow art student, the young and beautiful Mitsuko. The relationshi...

The Promised Land

A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in sim...

Twisted Justice

Starting in 1970s Hokkaido, the film charts the moral descent of Detective Moroboshi over three decades, the yo...

My Friend "A"

Masuda, an aspiring journalist, plans to write an article in order to expose his co-worker Suzuki, who is a psy...

Dare to Stop Us

In Spring 1969, 21-year-old Megumi Yoshizumi goes to Wakamatsu Production. The company makes films popular with...

Disconcerto

Set within the fictional city of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada runs a "benriya" - a general problem solver for hire. His...

Rolling Marbles

Shibuya in Tokyo, a city that continues to change due to redevelopment. At a house in the corner of Shibuya, Ai...

Hijacked Youth – Dare To Stop Us 2

Nagoya, 1983: Legendary filmmaker Koji WAKAMATSU decides to open a cinema – not least to show his own films. Th...

The Ravine of Goodbye

In a valley, with a dense growth of trees, a baby is killed. The baby's mother Satomi is arrested as the prime...

United Red Army

Two of the most radical student groups form the United Red Army (URA) and head into the mountains to conduct a...

Six Singing Women

Two men with opposite personalities, Kayashima and Uwajima, accidentally wander into a beautiful village after...

The Seal Of The Sun

At 2:46 PM on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant experiences a black out due to the afte...

Kamata Prelude

A four-part film done in the unique style of each director, Matusbayashi Urara gives a portrayal of a strugglin...

Shiba Park

While walking their shiba dogs, 3 middle-aged men meet at the park everyday. They do not know each other's name...

You've Got A Friend

Yoshio is a man who works for the city's water department and live with his mother. He regularly visits to the...

Maria's Breast

Mao, who can tell when someone will die when she touches them, offers her own body to dying men. One day, Tachi...

Akame 48 Waterfalls

A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange characters. He finds...

Bungo: Stories of Desire

Omnibus film "Bungo Sasayakana Yokubo" features 6 different short stories set under 2 different themes ("Mitsum...

Hana-Dama: Phantom

“Hana-Dama”—a flower in the wasteland. This flower is a symbol of earthly desires and every human is overwhelme...

11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate

On November 25th 1970, a man committed ritual suicide inside the Tokyo headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of...

The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan

Shoji Segawa was a quiet and inconspicuous boy, but, for the first time, he is recognized by people after winni...