A high school and its students are in shambles and far from anything anyone would describe as doing well. The thugs of the Akimotogumi yakuza decide to take the matter…

Director Yukihiko Tsutsumi wrings laughs out of an unlikely topic — domestic violence — in this dark comedy about noodle-shop waitress Yukie Morita (Miki Nakatani), who puts up with the…

Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from hospital to hospital. The harsh environment at the hospitals…

In her search for answers, 17-year-old Haru sets out on a long journey across the country to the town where, in 2011, the devastating tsunami swept away her brother and…

A James Brown fanatic gangster decided to disband his own gang and see his long lost daughter before entering prison. Hoping to change his mind, his underlings planned to kidnap…

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.

Saiyūki, also known by its British title Monkey, is a Japanese television drama based on the classic sixteenth-century Chinese novel Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en. Filmed in north-west…

In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who wants to control the length of the Silk Road. One…

Ôtomo gets involved with new Yakuza battles after he comes back the Yakuza society.

In 2012, Atsuya (Ryosuke Yamada) and his 2 childhood friends do something bad and run into an old general store. They decide to stay there until the morning. Late into…

An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a râmen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.

Clinging to a bare letter compiled by her recently deceased dad, young Momo moves with her mum in bustling Tokyo to the remote Japanese island of Shio. Upon her arrival,…

Since law enforcement launching a fullscale crack down on organized crime, it provokes a federal yakuza struggle between your Sanno of their East and also Hanabishi of those West. What…

Because the Japanese give up on the finish of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will likely be hanged as a battle legal. Influencing his ruling…

A guy, who dreamed to become a Punkrocker, is employed as a very low salaryman in a drum parts company. He’s secretly in love with his own colleague. 1 afternoon,…