Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady...
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
Hajime asks his friend Yoshi to set him up with his classmate Ann. Yoshi tries to do this for Hajime...
Rei Kiriyama is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi pla...
A Tokyo college student is attacked by a ghoul, a super-powered human who feeds on human flesh. He s...
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...
Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a...
The time spent between professional Shogi player Kiriyama and his three stories helps to heal his wo...
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mot...
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...
Mika works as a nurse by day; by night she entertains covetous men at a girls' bar. Shinji is blind ...
A story of three escort girls living in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. They work at the same escort service while...
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...
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...
A serial-murderer is on the loose who just so happens to also be removing the hearts of his victims ...