Japan

A young woman falls for a middle aged business man, but things get complicated when she also starts having feelings for his wife.Read More »

A jazz bandleader, falsely accused of murdering his girlfriend, tries to stay one step ahead of the police as he dives into Tokyo’s sin-city in search of the real killer in this dark and beautiful noir from master Seijun Suzuki.Read More »

A man who was once a student activist marries the daughter of the head of a big trust company. He uses his position as an elite salary man to do whatever he pleases. However, a black shadow from his past starts to creep into his life…

This work from Wakamatsu’s early period was considered lost for a long time, but was later unearthed from the storage of the film center in Tokyo’s National Museum of Modern Art.Read More »

A young girl meet a young guy that want to be a gangster. They fall in love and you follows his minds struggle what to do.Read More »

Bored with school, 15-year-old Daisuke Kawashima embarks on a pilgrimage to visit the 7,000-year-old cedar tree on distant Yakushima Island. Through his journey, Daisuke meets a number of interesting people, including friendly truck driver Sumire and a mysterious mountaineer girl.
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Ex-jazz pianist turned promoter finds he is successful, but empty. When an entrepreneur sends him to Moscow with a jazz combo, he falls in with the dissident youth of the city, and again finds life empty.Read More »

A grifter divides his time between being an unwelcome guest in the home of a former fellow student now a computer programmer and attempting to make lots of money by running fraudulent businesses.Read More »

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Based on the Chinese classic “Jin Ping Mei”. Original Japanese cut directed by Koji Wakamatsu and produced by Shochiku. Set in Song-dynasty China, Wu Song rises to fame and becomes a guard captain. He is captivated by his brother’s wife, Pan Jinlian, whose beauty also ensnares the wealthy libertine Ximen Qing. To possess her, Ximen Qing has Wu Song’s brother murdered. When the corrupt authorities refuse justice, Wu Song is imprisoned, escapes with the help of the Liangshan bandits, and joins their ranks. Ximen Qing descends further into decadence, but Wu Song eventually returns, leading an attack on the town.Read More »

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Story of a young man as an individual and as a family man told through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China. Based on a true story of the Sino-Japanese war involving Japanese war hero Kojirō Nishizumi.Read More »