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Japanese horror written and directed by Shin'ya Tsukamoto. In 1910, Dr Yukio Daitokuji (Masahiro Motoki) lives in Tokyo with his amnesiac wife Rin (Ryô) and takes over the running of his family's respected medical practice. When both his parents are...

Katsuhito Ishii directs this Japanese drama. Taking a close look at the inner workings of family life in Tokyo, the film hones in on the Haruno household. The five-member family live fairly simply and quietly until Uncle Ayano (Tadanobu Asano) decides to...

Japanese horror starring Yôji Minagawa as Kazuhiko, a recent graduate struggling to find work. Having moved back in with his parents after university, Kazuhiko is desperate for a job and the chance to progress with his life. When he lands a position at...

Nobuhiko Obayashi directs this Japanese war drama set in 1941. Teenager Toshihiko (Shunsuke Kubozuka) is preparing himself to leave his home in Amsterdam to go to school in Karatsu, Japan, but while he makes friends easily, he struggles to move past the...

Cult Japanese film directed by Macoto Tezuka. Shingo and Kan (Shingo Kubota and Kan Takagi) are singers who dream of one day being famous. When they meet Minami (Kiyohiko Ozaki), a mysterious talent promoter who promises them fame and fortune, they can't...

Toshiaki Toyoda writes and directs this Japanese drama based on the manga by Taiyo Matsumoto. Set in a run-down boys school in Tokyo, the film follows friends Kujo (Ryuhei Matsuda), Aoki (Hirofumi Arai), Yukio (Sôsuke Takaoka), Yoshimura (Shugo...

Japanese comedy starring Tomorowo Taguchi, Diamond Yukai and Shinichi Tsutsumi as three men who are struggling with life. After a chance meeting brings them together one night, they find themselves in a chase around the city of Tokyo.

Japanese drama written and directed by Sion Sono. The film follows Kyoko (Ami Tomite), a 21-year-old actress and writer who lashes out at her older assistant Noriko (Mariko Tsutsui) before a scheduled magazine interview. After humiliating Noriko in front...

Japanese comedy drama written and directed by Eiji Uchida. The film follows Ai Shima (Sairi Ito), a young girl sent to live with a religious cult by her mother. When the cult gets shut down by the police, Ai is sent to a regular school but soon finds it...

Darkly comic Japanese horror co-written and directed by Eiji Uchida. The film follows Nami (Kumi Takiuchi), a young woman with a fetish for lonely and elderly men. Nami enjoys the subjects of her fetish from afar and takes great satisfaction in observing...

Cult Japanese thriller directed by and starring Shin'ya Tsukamoto. When Kiriko (Kyôka Suzuki), his girlfriend of ten years, commits suicide by a gunshot wound to the head, Goda (Tsukamoto) goes in search of the reasons behind her death. Owing to Japan's...

Post-disaster drama written and directed by Shion Sono. Two neighbouring farmers and their families live in the small town of Oba in Nagashima. When an earthquake strikes causing a devastating accident at a nearby nuclear power plant a 20km exclusion...

Japanese psychological thriller directed by and starring Shin'ya Tsukamoto. Kotoko (Cocco) is a psychologically disturbed young mother who we learn sees two of everyone - one good, one evil. These hallucinations cause her to self-harm as a way of...

Japanese thriller from director Shion Sono which focuses on tropical fish seller Mr. Shamoto (Mitsuru Fukikoshi) who unwittingly goes into business with an elderly psychopath. When Shamoto's troubled daughter Mitsuko (Hikari Kajiwara) is caught...

Far-out Japanese comedy drama. In the 1970s, a failing punk band record a song called 'Fish Story', stealing the title from a poorly translated novel, little knowing that their forgotten slice of genius will one day, 37 years in the future, be...