After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers.

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigat...

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...

Kotani Zenzaemon, a ronin who has a side job making brushes in a tenement house in the back alley, i...

In a dysfunctional family where the mother is a heroin addict and prostitute, beaten by her son, and...

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

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

As a result of illness and unemployment, Yamaoka Tatewaki, a "Hatamoto" (or direct vassal of the Sho...

Follows the final days of the shogunate and Shinsengumi's Vice-Comander Hijikata Toshizo along with ...

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...

Follows a group of female escorts who are living life as best they can.

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

Reiji's final mission is to prevent the smuggling of 600 billion yen of drugs. For his mission, he g...

Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story...

As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a re...

Having launched a social media prank about a haunted building, three girls suddenly vanish. Rumours ...

The film adaptation of the novel "Three Little Rats" by Tatsuro Jinde. In this fascinating story, th...

The second film about the adventures of Chosichiro Matsudaira. This time he fights against conspirat...