A single bullet cuts through Kyoto in the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate right before the restoration of imperial rule. Who plotted to assassinate Tokugawa Yoshinobu, who is about to become the last shogun of Japan? Was it the faction wanting to overthrow him or the rebels within the shogunate? Mutual enemies Sakamoto Ryoma, the wandering samurai, and Hijikata Toshizo, a deputy leader of the Shinsengumi and vassal of the Tokugawa clan, receive a secret order to track down the culprit. They are given a mere two days.

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...

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...

When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects...

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

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

An epic drama about Nichiren's life. Nichiren was a Buddhist monk who lived for 60 years during the ...

Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person ...

When the bizarre mass suicide of 54 high school girls throwing themselves in front of a subway train...

A room in a fancy downtown apartment. The evening orgy kicks off with eight men and women meeting fo...

It's summer vacation, but two high schoolers have been instructed to clean the (empty) swimming pool...

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

Shun Miyata's new life in Tokyo takes a dark turn when he and coworker Yuka discover their boss Yuri...

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

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

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

At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area o...

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

When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt...

Teenage Mutsuko comes to Tokyo for work but ends up at a repair shop. She befriends the owner's fami...