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A dark satire of a contemporary Japan still exhausted from the aftermath of war, hunger, poverty and unemployment And just as its people are recovering, there is a threat during these Cold War years of renewed militarism and re

Koji Namiki, a talented young pitcher, who had won the National High School Baseball Championships enters university, but soon afterwards injures his elbow He and his teammates work hard to get back on the field placing all his

Koto is a 1980 film directed by Kon Ichikawa starring Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura in an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabatas story The Old Capital

Eight film artists from different countries are given carte blanche to make a collection of short documentaries on the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, offering unexpected, original and often humorous perspectives

A debt collector visits a gambling den in search of a gambler the gamblers wife and daughter are sick unknown to the debt collector he kills the gambler He learns more about his wife and family and forms a bond as a result h

3 people suffering from psychiatric problems, and a doctor stranger than any of them

Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat Despite his careful planning many unforeseen events will test his determination

Yurine is a delusional gothic lolita who summons a demon girl with the tail of a cobra, Jashin chan Theyll have to live together until Yurine finds a way to send Jashin chan back to hell, or until Jashin chan kills Yurine

A group of disgraced samurai plan a decade long revenge against a corrupt lord

A pair of hard boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull open and cooked his brain in a stew As they try to track down the killer, they discover that, quite liter

Hiroshi Ando aka Zoo Synopsis This collection of shocking, unpredictable stories feature the first screen adaptation of the number one young author of his generation, Otsuichi Working with five different directors, ZOO fea

The orphaned Makioka sisters look for a husband for their third sister, Yukiko, as the rebellious youngest sister, Taeko, is kept waiting her turn

The cat of the title roams around the house of a poor schoolteacher in the late 19th century, observing the goings on of the teacher and his neighbors

A look at the youthful beginnings of manga giants Motoo Abiko, aka Fujiko Fujio, Fujio Akatsuka and Hiroo Terada, when they all lived in the same, dingy apartment building named Tokiwa so in Tokyos Ikebukuro district

A home care nurses relationship with the family she has spent years working for is threatened when her nephew is arrested for kidnapping their daughter

When technical illustrator Tony Takitani asks his wife to resist her all consuming obsession for designer clothes, the consequences are tragic

Action packed and rewardingly strange

Private detective Kindaichi investigates a series of murders in scenic rural Japan

Kosuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolved murder Then some murders happen Kindaichi must find out about the past in o

Kon Ichikawa examines the beauty and rich drama on display at the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo, creating a record of observations that range from the expansive to the intimate

Based on the classic novel by Murasaki Shikibu, written over 1000 years ago Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the nobility of Kyoto for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing the

The orphan swordsman wanders into a town and stumbles upon the opportunity to do righteous deeds He finds a larger plot is afoot with a corrupt court system, a well meaning public servant and lots of danger for all involved

For his 1st color film, Ichikawa did an Edo era story of two geishas scheming against each other for control of the Nihonbashi bridge area, and vying for the affections of a young doctor

Evil Queen Himiko and her army invade a small rural province in order to kill a Phoenix in order to achieve immortality, a young boy survives and goes on an adventure to amend the injustices

Just when you think Kyoshiros life cant get any stranger, someone starts running around raping and murdering, and leaving notes proudly proclaiming that he did it Tracking down the real culprit willtake him along a twisted trai

Tsurumatsu, a young boy, is supposed to be a new Lord but hes not really interested, he would rather be a carpenter So he gets kidnapped and its up to Nemuri Kyoshiro to save him

A team of samurai warriors team up to defeat a shape changing, supernatural creature

A man of questionable birth peacefully raises flowers, but after he masters a special sword fighting technique, his life takes a dark turn

A down and out school teacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old television superhero, Zebraman

Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involving Kyoshiro in the conflict against his will is a bad idea

Follows the fluctuating fortunes of three wanderers who travel through feudal Japan selling their services to whichever lord will fill their rice bowls

A young officer must choose between love and duty

Ken Kasugai has been deserted by his wife, because he was absorbed in a game One day, missing child robot Tang appears in front of him

A meeting and romance starts between two people with communication issues a boy who wears headphones and uses haiku poems, and a girl who wears a mask and only does online videos

An introverted schoolgirl falls in love and starts a relationship with one of her classmates Set in a small seaside town in Japan, the love of her life eventually leaves her for her boyfriend in Tokyo

Princess Kiku, Shoguns daughter, wants revenge on Nemuri Kyoshiro for embarrassing her