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.

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

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

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

The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.

Five loosely connected storylines concerning the secrets and lies, the fears and tears, and the puer...

Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a...

A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his fat...

A serial-murderer is on the loose who just so happens to also be removing the hearts of his victims ...

In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassi...

Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world g...

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 nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...

Sawa Yamagishi worked as a nursing-care helper. The family for an old man asked Sawa to sleep with h...

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...

Kaoru Fukazawa is a manga artist. His manga series was published for eight years, but has now finish...

A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in dru...

Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder take...

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...