Funky Forest: The First Contact
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair’s portly Caucasian brother.
Wild Berries
A portrait of an ordinary family that turns unstable when their frivolous son Shuji returns home after a long absence.
Eyes of the Spider
Nijima, a white-collar worker, finds the man responsible for his young daughter’s murder. He tortures and interrogates the man, who maintains his innocence, before killing and burying him. He returns…
Hard Luck Hero
Sometimes it is simply the wrong place at the worst possible moment and get to see their lives change because of this. Such is the case for the film’s six…
Dead Run
The story concerns a boy called Shuji, growing up in a rural area of Japan where the community is divided into “Shore” and “Offshore” – the latter so-named because it…
A Scene at the Sea
When deaf garbage man Shigeru (Kurôdo Maki) finds a broken surfboard on one of his runs, it piques his curiosity, even though he has no experience with surfing. So he…
Sonatine
Kitano plays Murakawa, a Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life. Along with a few of his henchmen, he is sent by his boss to Okinawa to help end a gang…
Kids Return
Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a…
After Life
After death, people have just one week to choose only a memory to keep for eternity.
Distance
On the eighth anniversary of a cult’s failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suicide, family members of those affected gather at the cult’s former base on the…
Takeshis’
Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an…
Achilles and the Tortoise
Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting…
Gamera the Brave
A young boy in a peaceful seaside town gets more than he bargained for when he takes home a mysterious egg. When it hatches, out comes a baby turtle that…
Fireworks
Steamboy
After receiving a package deal from his grandfather, Ray, a younger inventor who lives in England throughout the mid-19th century, finds himself caught in the midst of a lethal battle…