Japan

It’s all love, lust, losers and loneliness in these six interlinked tales of sexuality in Tokyo. Masayuki Miyano directs a screenplay by Tetsuya Nakashima (Kamikaze Girls, Memories Of Matsuko)Read More »

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After his fiancée is killed in the crossfire of a yakuza turf war, a man on the edge remorselessly hunts down the gangsters responsible.Read More »

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A melodrama adapted by Yamada Nobuo and Shigemori Takako from Sasazawa Saho’s novel The Lost Woman and directed by Yasuzô Masumura.

Mariko had planned a trip as a couple, but it was cancelled again due to her husband Tetsuya’s work schedule. Feeling dissatisfied with her life with her husband, Mariko goes to Izu by herself and decides to stay at the house of Katsue, who used to work at Mariko’s parents’ house. Mariko meets a young man named Shigeo there. She is puzzled by Shigeo’s willingness to reveal his thoughts and feelings, but Mariko soon finds herself attracted to his honesty. Read More »

Horai serves an 18 year sentence for killing a rival boss, but right before his release he is attacked.Read More »

A female bodyguard and assassin protects a gem cutter when someone from her past catches up on her.Read More »

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Two Years, Twelve cities, and a wide open throttle, The Roost traverses the land of the rising sun in search of the taste-makers, builders, and artisans that define the Japanese alternative motor scene.Two Years, Twelve cities, and a wide open throttle, The Roost traverses the land of the rising sun in search of the taste-makers, builders, and artisans that define the Japanese alternative motor scene combining old-world hand-built craftsmanship with new-world design aesthetics.Read More »

Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he’s caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdownsRead More »

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Mitsuko, a thirty-something Japanese secretary, lives a very simple life devoid of ambition. She has an affair with Eiji, a rich, arrogant and newly divorced businessman who is intrigued by her retiring personnality but she quickly breaks up as he repeatedly tries to make her change her lifestyle and values. While Eiji ponders the reasons of the breakup, Mitsuko falls for one of her neighbours, a young slacker who has the same approach to life as her. But Mitsuko’s new lover is fascinated by Eiji’s power and social status… A triangle that will inevitably leave one of the characters “unloved”.Read More »

The womanising master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good instead of learning the skills himself. He lives to regret this laziness when he falls in love with the daughter of a higher class samurai and is informed on their wedding night that he must defeat her before their marriage can be consumated…Read More »