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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...

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...

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...

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...

Spoof mockumentary about a fictional television series called 'Top Knot Detective'.

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...