Movies

Manzo is a fisherman in a small seaside community who lives and works alone, but longs for a relationship and maybe a wife. When a sign is posted...

Brothers Jinta and Wataru are raised in a travelling circus. After an accident, Jinta decides to leave and wanders the countryside working as a...

Mado wakes up in the morning finding all the people disappeared. Hearing a strong typhoon might strike, everyone has escaped the disaster. She checks...

A docudrama about the boxer Jôichirô Tatsuyoshi. The documentary part follows Tatsuyohi for 18 months, from his comeback from an eye...

A tough and violent battle ensues between Hikaru Gotokuji, who's been assigned as the bodyguard for a popular young entertainer, and the ex-mercenary...

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's film "Gemini".

Goemon Ishikawa steals a golden statue from Yukari Kukai with female thief Neko no Me Ogin, but Private Detective Shinkuro Akechi chases after Goemon...

An exploration of underground Japanese counter-culture including the Yakuza, the nationalists, the gay and lesbian community, the bikers and the...

Film directed by Ryuji Ohya.

Wife in former life plagues husband as ghost in the present

Tells the story of an up-and-coming Yakuza, who makes a name for himself alongside his two friends just before 1992, when the enforcement of the new...

Hatano is living as an insomniac freelance typesetter alone in his bayside apartment. One day, Aikawa, a high school classmate he hasn’t seen...

Correlated with Susan Sontag's theorization of kitsch as well as employing the queer lingo of "camp," this film's relentless equal opportunity...

‘Many people have a preconception about butoh — that it is performed by dancers whose bodies are painted white. So when we debuted our...

The Naked Summer is a film that documents young artists' effort and growth while training and preparing for a performance of Butou that is praised...