Five loosely connected storylines concerning the secrets and lies, the fears and tears, and the puerile potty jokes that punctuate the characters' daily (and in one eerie case, nightly) encounters.
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mot...
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to k...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...
A friend of the detective has been is murdered. During the investigation, he comes across a source w...
Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife fr...
Nakadai Tatsuya, Japan’s greatest living actor, gives the performance of a lifetime as Shoji Sanosuk...
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ranso...
Tamako graduated from a university in Tokyo, but she now lives with her father back in Kofu. Tamako ...
Natsume Mochizuki works as a teen model in Tokyo, but she learns that she has to move to her father...
A high school student steals the panties of a girl he likes but is witnessed, which sets off a chain...
Three male gangsters are forced by their boss into becoming a trio of female pop singers.
The story takes place over a 24 hour period. In the southernmost part of Japan, 20 fishing boats of...
Yumiko returns to work in Hama-chan's department. She had once left the company after getting marri...
A strict, but caring mother has an awakening when she is told she has cancer and it is terminal. She...
A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World W...
A homeless man meets a medical school student who pays him to volunteer for a surgical procedure kno...
A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secr...
Akiko, a young woman, comes to Vladivostok to meet Matsunaga, a young businessman she has met in Tok...