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With peaceful times in Edo resulting in wide ronin unemployment, poverty-stricken samurai Hanshiro calls on the House of Ii, seeking a noble end by ritual suicide. Hoping to dismiss the demand, headstrong lord Kageyu recounts the tragic story of another...

Killing, the powerful latest work by Japanese master Shinya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo: The Iron Man), offers a modern take on the classic samurai film, evoking both the genre's mood and spirit. In exchange for board and lodging, lightning-fast samurai Mokunoshim...

Taka, a shiftless young man, sets off on a quest to find his missing brother Mune. Teaming up with a quirky new friend and an edgy, mysterious young girl, Taka finds himself taking on a pack of vicious monster cats determined to execute unscrupulous pet...

Legendary punk director Gakuryu Ishii (Sogo Ishii) adapts the famously unfilmable Kou Machida novel Punk Samurai Slash Down, telling the story of Junoshin Kake (Go Ayano), a ronin samurai with ambitions to be a part of the Kuroae clan. In search of...

Following the success of his trailblazing independent cyberpunk debut, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Shinya Tsukamoto directed this wonderfully bizarre adaptation of Daijiro Morohoshi's Yokai Hunter manga as his first studio project. Called to an idyllic...

A limited edition three disc digipack Blu-ray set of six films from Japanese director Katsuhito Ishii covering his work from his debut 'Promise of August' in 1995 to his latest 'Norioka Workshop' in 2022.

Sugihara (Yosuke Kubozuka) feels more like a misfit than most high school students, being the son of a Japanese mother (Shinobu Otake) and a North Korean father (Tsutomu Yamazaki). Changing schools does not help much, as he is simply taunted by a...

As a child, Dragon Eye Morrison undergoes electro-shock treatment for his aggressive behaviour. The levels of sheer energy absorbed by his body over the years allow him to channel and conduct electricity. Now an adult, Morrison works in the city as a...

Offbeat Japanese comedy following the unusual bond that develops between a demotivated student and a debt collector for the loan shark he owes money to. Takemura (Jô Odagiri) is a student with few friends, no family and almost as a little ambition. His...

Japanese sci-fi comedy directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro. A group of friends are spending their summer in their Sci-Fi Club clubhouse in air-conditioned bliss. When the remote is accidentally broken, they must suddenly cope with the full heat of summer. The...

Based on the unbelievable true story! Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide, stay alive whatever happens, the mission is more important than anything else...

Japanese comedy based on the manga by Hiroyuki Ohashi, formed as an omnibus of interconnecting stories.

Double bill of the Japanese sci-fi cinepoems about mutations, both physical and psychological. In 'Tetsuo - The Iron Man' (1988) an office worker hits a metal fetishist with his car and then inexplicably begins to sprout metal shards from his body. Keen...

Japanese sci-fi comedy directed by Junta Yamaguchi. When cafe owner Kato (Kazunari Tosa) discovers that his PC monitor shows what will happen two minutes in the future and a screen in his cafe shows what happened two minutes in the past, he and his...