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.
Wolf’s Calling
A girl finds an old handgun in her attic and the symbolic object conjures a mystical scene of samurai (a stellar cast of actors joined by the 20-person Edo punk…
That’s The Way!!
A rookie editor Hatsumi Takeda becomes an editor of Fujio Akatsuka who is known as the king of gag manga. Hanging out with her, Akatsuka sees through Hatsumi’s talent to…
Kate
After she’s irreversibly poisoned, a ruthless criminal operative has less than 24 hours to exact revenge on her enemies and in the process forms an unexpected bond with the daughter…
Dearest
A prison officer hands in his resignation after his wife’s death, to drive to the port where she wants her ashes scattered at sea. Eiji (Ken Takakura) works as a…
Hakuchi: The Innocent
In a future where World War II never ended, Japan is decimated by nightly bombings. The only building left standing is known as the Media Station, a broadcasting center responsible…
Mortal Kombat
Washed-up MMA fighter Cole Young, unaware of his heritage, and hunted by Emperor Shang Tsung’s best warrior, Sub-Zero, seeks out and trains with Earth’s greatest champions as he prepares to…
Minamata
War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities.
Snow Prince
10-year-old Sota lives with his grandfather and a dog named Chibi in a small snowy village. They live in such a poverty that Sota cannot even afford to go to…
The Rocking Horsemen
It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears “Pipeline” by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called “The Rocking Horsemen.”…
Sad Vacation
Kenji, abandoned by his mother, scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs including driving bar hostesses and their customers home. Besides this he takes care of the sister of…
Maborosi
A young woman’s husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant. Yumiko remarries and moves from Osaka to a small fishing village, yet continues…
Love & Pop
Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or “compensated dating”, where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this…
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…
Hana
In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn’t an accomplished…
Punk Samurai Slash Down
Junoshin Kake is a ronin. To get hired by the Kurokaze Han, he lies and tells them that a religious group is trying to destroy them. He gets hired by…
Café Lumière
Making her way through life by forming superficial relationships, Yoko keeps everyone at arm’s length, whether it’s her father and stepmother or Hajime, the owner of a small bookstore who…
Kaza-hana
In Somai’s final film, an alcoholic civil servant wakes up under a cherry tree in Tokyo next to a bar hostess with whom he’s impulsively made a suicide pact. Though…
The Taste of Tea
A spell of time in the life of a family living in rural Tochigi prefecture, north of Tokyo. Though her husband is busy working at an office, Yoshiko is not…
Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
The story recounts early life of Genghis Khan, a servant who continued to conquer half of the planet at the 11twentieth century.
Redline
Essentially the most harmful and thrilling automotive race within the universe is held solely as soon as each 5 years. And that is tonight. The rivals are lined up on…
Battleship
When mankind beams a radio sign into house, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, within the type of a number of alien crafts that splash down within the waters off…
47 Ronin
Kai—a outcast—unites Oishi, ” the first choice of 47 outcast samurai. Together they search vengeance upon the dangerous over-lord who murdered their master and also banished their own kind. To…
My Man
After dropping the whole lot in a tsunami, 10-year-old Hana is taken in by 26-year-old distant relative Jungo Kusarino. They dwell as father and daughter however share a profound sense…
Grasshopper
Harmonium
Toshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. However then this previous acquaintance, who has simply been launched from jail, begins to meddle in Toshio’s household life…