Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he’s caught in the middle of a power struggle…

A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend’s father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the father to teach him the trade’s secrets.

The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai, a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.

In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work

The award-winning director of such esteemed films as Black Rain and The Ballad of Narayama has chosen here to tell the decidedly dicey true tale of Iheiji Muraoka, also known…

Coerced by the evil Witch Raga, Ashura, the Hell Virgin, attempts to unlock the four Earth holes that lead to the Gates of Hell. Together, Raga aims to control the…

A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should…

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima told in four parts. The first three parts relate events in three of his novels: The Temple of the…

A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai (Kimura) and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband’s honor.

After living the slaughter of several Christians 350 decades before, that a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He also sells his soul to Satan and gets…