Japan

Ran comes to Japan, and makes an immediate impression by assassinating a Yakuza boss and his associates, while they dine in a restaurant.Read More »

Out for revenge after waking up in the trunk of a car, a female thug teams up with an abused prostitute to steal a bag of cash from the Yakuza.Read More »

The Fallen Angel tells the story of a young man who has felt since childhood utterly alien from others around him. Since that time he has learned to put on a face to hide his alienation. He feels incapable of belonging to the human society, especially so by society’s refusal to take him seriously. He then follows a descent into alcohol, drugs, & suicide …Read More »

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What can be said about Funeral Parade of Roses other than that it is the personification of a fever dream, and the definition of a “mindfuck.” Toshio Matsumoto’s 1969 cult film is nothing but a nightmare that stares down at you with glaring eyes, and never allows you the opportunity for a rest even after it’s over because it will stay with you and haunt you for days. The images are so stark and hellish that one begins to believe that they are in the pits of hell, either that, or inside the mind of a mad genius. Matsumoto’s controversial film was a re-telling of the classic Oedipus Rex tale by Sophocles, and was given a brief release in the US in 1970.Read More »

Plot:
In a village subsisting on its herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides to overthrow Jakoman and his cohorts.

(Remake of a 1949 movie of the same name directed by Senkichi Taniguchi written by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshirô Mifune)Read More »

A teenage delinquent schoolgirl named Izumi Hoshi inherits her father’s Yakuza clan.Read More »

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Hiroshima Police detective Ogami Shogo and his partner Hioka Shuichi are investigating the disappearance of a company’s employees amidst an escalating yakuza turf war in 1988. Blood, shooting and death is everywhere. At the same time, there is a suspicion that the former man has his own ties to the thugs. Certainly many of his methods and actions are thuggish, violent and should be illegal.Read More »

Oracion is a racehorse purchased by a businessman in financial trouble. He believes the horse will win the upcoming Japan Derby and solve his monetary woes.Read More »

Detailing the life of Shinji Sato and his now renowned band Fishmans.Read More »