During the Second World War, Takeichi Matsuo had participated in hiding a huge cache of gold in the Phillippine mountains. Read More »
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Crazed Fruit (1956) Kô Nakahira, Yûjirô Ishihara, Masahiko Tsugawa, Mie Kitahara
Bored rich kids. Natsuhisa, 20, constantly teases his brother Haruji, 16, about girls. Read More »
Unperishable Sword (1960) Yasushi Sasaki, Kôji Tsuruta, Hiroko Sakuramachi, Keiko Fujita
Chaos (2000) Hideo Nakata, Jun Kunimura, Ken Mitsuishi, Masato Hagiwara
A man gets involved in a kidnapping scheme with the wife of a wealthy businessman. Read More »
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969) Nagisa Ôshima, Tadanori Yokoo, Rie Yokoyama, Moichi Tanabe
Story of a bookstore thief named Birdey who is led through various adventures in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko. Read More »
Orchids Under the Moon (1991) Takashi Ishii, Jinpachi Nezu, Kimiko Yo, Shû Nakajima
Jinpachi Nezu who lost both his wife and daughter during a feud against the yakuza 10 years ago while he was an accountant for their organization. Read More »
The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957) Yûzô Kawashima, Furankî Sakai, Sachiko Hidari, Yôko Minamida
Set in the last few years of the shogun’s rule, this period/ensemble movie depicts the lives of the young and the restless at a whorehouse. Read More »
The Sinners of Hell (1960) Nobuo Nakagawa, Shigeru Amachi, Utako Mitsuya, Yôichi Numata
A graduate-school student has a friend who is pure evil. Read More »
Disappear (2005) Hideo Jôjô, Mei Fujishiro, Kaede, Kazuaki Kubo
The high school students Asi, Kwangshu and Yinan have been friends since childhood Read More »
TAP: Perfect Education (2013) Kazuki Katashima, Narimi Arimori, Seiji Chihara, Kôsei Katô
Set in Okinawa, Japan. A middle-aged yakuza falls in love with the daughter of his boss’s mistress. Read More »
The Warped Ones (1960) Koreyoshi Kurahara, Tamio Kawaji, Yuko Chiyo, Eiji Gô
A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger Read More »
Heavenly Sin (1992) Toshio Masuda, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Omar Sharif, Hiroki Matsukata
Elite lawyer Ryoko enlists the help of a foreign mafia in rescuing her son from a criminal who holds grudge against her. Read More »
All Around Us (2008) Ryosuke Hashiguchi, Lily Franky, Tae Kimura, Masaaki Akahori
In 1993 Kanao and Shoko are a Tokyo couple awaiting the arrival of their first child. Read More »
However… (1991) Hirokazu Koreeda, Leo Morimoto, Toyonori Yamanouchi, Ishimatsu Kitagawa
The story and repercussions of a Japanese government official Read More »
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Kôji Tsuruta
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan’s greatest Samurai, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Read More »