
Kokko is a third grade elementary school student. Even though she has a family who loves her, Kokko ...

A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow ...

Depressed and in debt, Santoshi tells his young daughter that he is going to find an infamous serial...

Business is a game! A theatrical version of the TV drama that became a social phenomenon starring Te...

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...

Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggl...

Set in Osaka's Shinsekai, the film depicts the lives of Ayumu Tobita (Hidekazu Akai), who makes a li...

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and ...

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor...

When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble o...

The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. ...

Daisuke is in the 2nd grade of high school and he plays on his school's baseball team. Daisuke then ...

Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as "The...

Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society...

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every y...

At midnight, in a residential area of Osaka, a middle aged man is murdered. The person who killed th...

Luca lost her family in the Great East Japan Earthquake causing her not to be able to speak. However...

Kamagasaki is an "invisible" slum of Osaka that attracts day laborers and prostitutes since WW2. Whe...

In the slums of Osaka, various marginalized misfits have their own interpretations of love. Complete...