Okawa Family’s yakuza, Junji, is released from prison, and is told to take over a local radio station by his boss. Junji tries to explain that it is not a yakuza’s job to talk on the radio, but no one listens to him. He reluctantly goes to the radio building, and is met by a young, upbeat girl broadcasting a talk show and playing pop music. Will this seasoned gangster really fit in on such a show?

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...

The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abus...

An adventure film with Benshi performers. Sometimes considered the 'first Japanese feature film', it...

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

At 2:46 PM on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant experiences a black out due ...

Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.

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

A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.

In the late 1890s, coal is a precious new natural resource. During an era of rapid economic growth, ...

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

To get revenge on her ex-boyfriend and to help revive her late mother's tennis table club, a table t...

Fukami is a high school janitor whose father was a gangster. He works at the school as a janitor ins...

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

Summoned by his dying father, Miyagi returns to his homeland of Okinawa, with Daniel, after a 40-yea...

After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new lif...

Sōra is a high school student who is basically invisible at school. He is friends with Chūya, who is...

After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering...

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...

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...