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.

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...

In 1908, Director/Producer Shozo Makino (father of Japanese cinema) directed and produced the first...

The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponso...

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 ...

Set in war-torn 15th century Kyoto, on the eve of the Onin War, the movie centers on a band of outla...

Two rogue vagrants make their living as "manure men", turning the waste from the tenement toilets in...

After suffering through a long and unsuccessful series of fertility treatments, Satoko and her husba...

At a movie studio in 1988, rookie director Hanako Hayashi is making her directorial debut, the eroti...

A blind man seeks revenge against the psychopath who took away his sight and slaughtered his wife an...

Two girls with the same name but very different personalities share an apartment in this sequel to N...

Impressionistic silent short film (also known as ‘Kaze. Ippun yonjûbyô’) created by 17-year-old high...

A samurai is struggling to make ends meet at the end of the Edo period. He has students and, among o...

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 ...

Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, vetera...

Yashima is a woman who works as a plumber. She is also uncomfortable with her own sexuality. One day...