Hidejirō is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tries to take over the company and kills their boss, Hidejirō must choose between his promise of non-violence and his yakuza code of revenge...

Akira, Takeshi, Yasu, and Shun are a gang of four close friends, all of whom were core members of th...

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...

Shinohara, a young bodybuilder, joins a para-military sect in northern Japan. His instructor, Takiz...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are ...

The first theatrical release, titled Bonobono, opened in theaters on 1993-11-13. The film has since ...

A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where ...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
A boy living in underdeveloped Welsh village hopes for a better time of his homeland when seeing the...

Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his...

A young executive has a really bad night after an encounter with a crazed bisexual wannabe yakuza an...

In a once-scenic village now dominated by a vast trash disposal site, a young man yearns to break fr...