Third Window

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...

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...

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...

Maverick Japanese director Sion Sono writes and directs this irreverently zany, three-and-a half hour, black-comedy drama which captures a year in the life of 17-year-old Yu (Takahiro Nishijima). Yu...

Quirky black comedy from director Daihachi Yoshida, about the rivalry between two sisters, set amidst the backdrop of rural Japan. Aspiring, but cash-strapped, actress Sumika (Eriko Sato) returns...

2004 Japanese comedy directed by Tetsuya Nakashima. Momoko Ryugasaki (Kyoko Fukada) is a bit of an oddball 17-year-old, who is fascinated by life in 18th century Versailles. She wears her version of...

Tsuda is a young insurance salesman whose life, and the life of his fiancée Hizuru, is turned upside down when he meets an old schoolfriend, Takuji. Soon after Takuji's visit to Tsuda's apartment,...

Tsuda is a young insurance salesman whose life, and the life of his fiancée Hizuru, is turned upside down when he meets an old schoolfriend, Takuji. Soon after Takuji's visit to Tsuda's apartment,...

Tsukamoto Shinya writes and directs this Japanese mystery thriller. During an insistent summer downpour in an anonymous Japanese metropolis, a dark erotic force infiltrates the lives of Rinko...

Japanese fantasy drama based on the manga by Osamu Tezuka. The fading literary career of jaded writer Yosuke Mikura (Goro Inagaki) is saved when he meets free spirit Barbara (Fumi Nikaidô) and...

Japanese sci-fi thriller directed by Sogo Ishii. Former gang leader Ken (Kôji Nanjô) has finally achieved the simple life that he always dreamed of. Meanwhile, his successor Jin (Tatsuo Yamada)...

Shin'ya Tsukamoto writes, directs and stars in this Japanese war drama. In the final days of the Second World War, Japanese soldiers are occupying the Philippines where they are slowly losing their...

Tetsuya Mariko co-writes and directs this violent Japanese drama. The film follows a pair of brothers on very different paths. Teenager Taira Ashihara (Yûya Yagira) leaves town just before the...

Tetsuya Mariko co-writes and directs this violent Japanese drama. The film follows a pair of brothers on very different paths. Teenager Taira Ashihara (Yûya Yagira) leaves town just before the...

Japanese drama written and directed by Eiji Uchida. Film director Tetsuo (Kiyohiko Shibukawa) is living off the glory of a hit indie film he made many years before and is struggling to get his second...

Japanese comedy drama written and directed by Sion Sono. In Tokyo, shy office worker Ryoichi Suzuki (Hiroki Hasegawa) is tired of everybody picking on him, his unfulfilling job and not being able to...

Japanese comedy drama written and directed by Sion Sono. In Tokyo, shy office worker Ryoichi Suzuki (Hiroki Hasegawa) is tired of everybody picking on him, his unfulfilling job and not being able to...

Japanese comedy drama written and directed by Yosuke Fujita starring Miyuki Ohshima as the 32-year-old nicknamed Fuku-Chan who lives in the run-down Fukufuku apartment complex. Having lived there...

Part of his war trilogy, which includes Fires On the Plain and Killing, Shinya Tsukamoto's latest examines the lives of Japanese citizens in the immediate post-World War II period. Part chamber...

A young man named Hiroshi (Tadanobu Asano) awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook full of drawings of dissections, Hiroshi is drawn to a medical school...

Shinji Somai's beloved cult film Typhoon Club is widely heralded as the director's seminal feature and considered to be one of the greatest Japanese films ever made. Offering a caustic immersion into...

A bittersweet, hilarious, enlightening and inspirational road trip through Japanese arthouse cinemas with independent filmmaker Hirobumi Watanabe, who also struggles to release his own movies in real...

2nd part of the 'Anti-War' Trilogy by Nobuhiko Obayashi (director of House). Relatives gather from afar in wintery Ashibetsu upon the death of patriarch Mitsuo. A mysterious woman named Nobuko...

Part of the 'Anti-War' Trilogy by Nobuhiko Obayashi (director of House). In the aftermath of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city decimated during a WWII...

After Tetsuro loses his business, the yakuza collect his debt in the most violent, shocking way imaginable. Honorably, he divorces his wife and becomes a taxi driver. Existing bereft of meaning or...

The Kobayashi family finally are able to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment to the suburban house of their dreams. But things are not as perfect as they seem: the house is infested by...

A burly hulk of a man (pro-wrestler Keiji Muto) makes his way from Hokkaido to the decrepit trash heaps of outer Tokyo in a quest to find his beloved fiance, but meets a nightclub diva who has lost...

Nobuhiko Obayashi (Hausu) takes on the Bosozoku (youth bike gang) genre with a poetic and bittersweet look at rebellious youth and young love. After being threatened by his girlfriend's brother, Ko...

Action film actor Takuma Toshiro is a man with only one goal: the perfection of action film acting. But when his samurai-approach to the profession clashes with an industry addicted to wires, CGI and...

Nobuhiko Obayashi's adaptation of the popular Yasutaka Tsutsui novel The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Toki o Kakeru Shojo) was another sci-fi-inflected idol film, set this time in Obayashi's hometown...

This early idol movie by genre master Nobuhiko Obayashi (House) stars Hiroko Yakushimaru, then the heart-throb of millions of Japanese fans. Hiroko Yakushimaru plays Yuko, a high school girl who must...