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Actors: Jô Odagiri, Yukie Nakama
Synopsis: Enraged by decades of treachery and mistrust, two magical samurai clans go to war despite the love that was meant to keep the peace in director Ten Shimoyama's feudal action entry. The year is 1614, and Japan has been unified under supreme shogun Tokugawa. Though the love shared between Gennosuke Read More
Actors: Boro Yukadinovic, Yayoi Kinoshita, Kippei Shiina, Tetta Sugimoto, Marika Matsumoto
Synopsis: Grudge director Takeshi Shimizu returns to tell this tale of a film crew that descends upon a hotel that was once the scene of a vicious killing spree, only to find that the horrors of the past have a malevolent means of manifesting themselves in the present. Years after a professor slaughtered Read More
Actors: Yozaburo Ito, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yosuke Kubozuka, Yutaka Matsushige, Toshifumi Muramatsu
Synopsis: Yoichi Sai's prison film Doing Time stars Tsutomu Yamazaki as Hanawa, a man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of Hanawa's cellmates to abandon their individuality. Hanawa lasts longer than the others, but a stint in Read More
Actors: Jun Fubuki, Hirotaro Honda, Renji Ishibashi
Synopsis: Following up on his critically acclaimed Bounce Ko Gals (1998), director Masato Harada spins this slickly-produced, compelling salary man drama that was a surprise smash hit in Japan. Tapping into the economic malaise and the growing outrage against endless tawdry financial scandals of Japan in Read More
Actors: Akira Emoto, Kippei Shiina, Maika, Wakaba Nakano, Kazue Takani
Synopsis: A stark drama awash in post-modern nihilism, Bootleg Film follows two friends who are driving to a funeral -- Tatsuo (Akira Emoto), a low-level criminal, and Seiji (Kippei Shiina), a police officer. The dearly departed was Ayako (Tamaki), a woman who at one time was married to Seiji and at another Read More
Actors: Yui Natsukawa, Jinpachi Nezu, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Kippei Shiina
Synopsis: This Japanese action film offers Westerners a look into the seamy world of the Japanese Mafia (the yakuza). Nami loved her husband, a policeman with an undercover assignment to get into a yakuza gang of drug-dealers. The ruse failed and he was shot to death and dumped into the sea. While Nami was Read More
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