Movies

The life of a urban planning official and that of an old fellow student, now project developer, are turned upside down by a chance encounter with a...

Adapted from Shusaku Endō's novel.

Baton is a collection of three 20-minute Sci-fi anime films dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the establishment of Yokohama city. On Planet Abel,...

Long ago, Japan was home to several navies. The Murakami Navy, said to be the strongest of them all, once defeated even Nobunaga, and refused to join...

This new version of Nagasaki's Yami utsu shinzô (1982) is neither a remake nor a sequel. It is both those things, and at the same time it is...

A couple of delinquents doing small time con jobs steal the car of a local councilman. Inside the car they find a stuffed panda. Suddenly the two...

Once again, director Shunichi Kajima and star Takanori Jinnai are teaming up to create a new type of yakuza film that stylishly depicts the short but...

A new wave Yakuza film in which Takanori Jinnai plays a young Yakuza suffering from stomach cancer who has very little left to live. This film is...

The short life of singer-songwriter Ozaki Yutaka, who died suddenly in 1992 at the age of 26, will be dramatized for the first time on the TV Tokyo...

A boy and girl struggle to understand their place in 1980s Japan, retiring to copulate and probe each other for answers.

This is Yamakawa's first feature film in 16mm. A group of university students who grew up in an era of rapid economic growth yearn for "another side"...

Bunsei era, at a time when Edo culture is at its peak, and barely 50 years before the arrival of the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Sabu is a cheerful,...

A washed-up middle-aged detective receives a desperate plea for help from a woman he once loved — a former Olympic dreamer now living in the...

Two childhood friends find themselves caught in the midst of an all-out turf war between rival factions in the yakuza-stained region of Kyushu.

Jubei is a Japanese merchant who learns tricks from Western merchants to get ahead in the game.