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Actors: Masahiro Motoki, Ryoko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kimiko Yo, Takashi Sasano
Synopsis: Director Yojiro Takita and writer Kundo Koyama examine the rituals surrounding death in Japan with this tale of an out-of-work cellist who accepts a job as a "Nokanashi" or "encoffineer" (the Japanese equivalent of an undertaker) in order to provide for himself and his young wife. Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki Read More
Actors: Hideaki Ito, Masaaki Uchino, Takayuki Yamada, Yuichi Kimura, Minji, Yu Kashii, Taro Yamamoto
Synopsis: At some point in the distant future, a massive, catastrophic earthquake strikes Tokyo, causing the temperature of the Pacific Ocean to rise meteorically and the largest typhoon in recorded Japanese history to sweep toward the city and inundate it with water. The Tokyo Fire Department and its team Read More
Actors: Kou Shibasaki, Satoshi Tsumabuki
Synopsis: A fierce woman warrior joins a wandering demon hunter on his quest to recover the missing body parts and regain his natural form in director Akihiko Shiota's adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's popular manga of the same name. Years ago, malevolent ruler Daigo Kagemitsu promised to deliver his unborn son 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
Synopsis: The martial arts film Samurai Resurrection begins with thousands of commoners being murdered in an attempt to revolt against the their ruler. Ten years after the slaughter, the revolution's leader, Shiro Amakusa, comes back from the dead and begins plotting his revenge. He brings back to life an Read More
Actors: Satoshi Tsumabuki
Synopsis: Can five teenage boys overcome clumsiness, inexperience, and the taunts of their classmates to become a champion team of synchronized swimmers? That's the key question in this comedy from Japan. Suzuki (Satoshi Tsumabuki) is an enthusiastic competitive swimmer who is the linchpin of his high Read More
Actors: Koji Chihara, Onimaru, Rin Ozawa, Tetta Sugimoto, Akaji Maro
Synopsis: Toshiaki Toyoda makes his directorial debut with this hallucinatory vision of sex and violence set in Tokyo's ultra-cool district of Shibuya. The film centers on Arano (Koji Chihara), a sociopathic and silent type who is first seen shoving his way through a crowd with utter indifference to those Read More
Actors: Shinji Takeda, Hinano Yoshikawa, Kaori Mizushima, Tetta Sugimoto, Beat Takeshi Kitano
Synopsis: In this French-Japanese drama, Tokyo cop Roy (Tetta Sugimoto) is on the "Four Eyes" case, searching for punk K (Shinji Takeda), who goes about shooting at various people in positions of authority. K's thick-lensed glasses have caused him to be nicknamed "Four Eyes" in newspaper articles. Roy's Read More
Actors: Eiji Okuda, Keiko Kishi, Mieko Harada, Kyoko Kagawa
Synopsis: Veteran director Kei Kumai spins this tale about Toyoichi Otomo (Eiji Okuda) who suffers from psychological and spiritual troubles after a horrific industrial accident. He lives with his elderly mother (Kyoko Kagawa) and wife (Mieko Harada) near Mt. Aso in rural Kyushu. He seeks solace in a small Read More
Actors: Tetta Sugimoto
Synopsis: This Japanese film is completely unrelated to Louis Malle's 1960 film Zazie Dans le Metro. In this story, Zazie (Yoshito Nakamura) is a young man who lives in Tokyo, and is attempting to find his center. His technique for this is to record everything he thinks, and to videotape himself and watch Read More
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