Akaji Maro

Real pro wrestlers Mizuho Ishikawa, Cutie Suzuki and Emi Tojyo star alongside newcomer Miki Suzuki as the women tag teams, and they are managed ...

A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange characters. He finds a job skewering meat in a dirty ...

In prison for 50 years after massacring his corrupt workmates with a samurai sword in 1945, Ginji Sonesaki (Riki Takeuchi) is given the nickname ...

Mayuko suffers from severe athlete’s foot. She visits a mysterious Chinese man, Zhou, in search of a secret medicine she heard about. He ...

Jam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse.

Shangri-La follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly commits suicide and decide to help him out of ...

Set in a toy store specialized in antique toys, a boy works in the toy store and is obsessed with tin toys. There’s one particular tin toy ...

When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the ...

This faux-documentary follows a butoh master, a fashion designer, and a filmmaker racing against time to create art and help a young girl in love.

A man is assaulted by someone with a bat and attempts to figure out why.

Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she’s about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he ...

Into the bully-infested home room class struts a fearless, ceramic-masked student. Squarely confronting a gang of ruffians, it is soon discovered ...

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin’ya Tsukamoto’s film “Gemini”.

A simple funeral turns a man’s world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he ...

The life and death of the men who are bound by violence.

When his mother’s untimely death quickly follows his father’s, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his ...

Remake of Chusei Sone’s 1983 comedy about a yakuza family trying their luck in show business.

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old ...

A young man decides one day to start killing yakuza. After he kills his first two he gets roped into helping a wannabe gangster and his bumbling ...

Yuko Moriyama stars in this ninja period piece as one of seven women determined to exact revenge on the evil lord Akinari Katou and “The 7 ...

The cop Himuro is picked as scapegoat by his superiors because of their own involvement in sokaiya gangster practices.

Wife in former life plagues husband as ghost in the present

A tough and violent battle ensues between Hikaru Gotokuji, who’s been assigned as the bodyguard for a popular young entertainer, and the ...

Hatano is living as an insomniac freelance typesetter alone in his bayside apartment. One day, Aikawa, a high school classmate he hasn’t seen in ...

Three cat burgling sisters have to go up against the police and a Chinese crime syndicate in order to rescue their kidnapped father.

Sawaki is a postman who’s not quite thrilled about his boring way of life. But his life is about to change when he delivers mail to his old ...

An odd journey starts as Mitsuru, a private detective, and a boy, whom a dying mobster entrusts to him, decide to go to northern Japan in search ...

A detective, a mysterious beauty Ekin and other characters appear in the film. It creates a mysterious visual world that takes us one step ...

A would-be bank robber forgets his mask on his first big heist, and then botches an attempt to shoplift a replacement mask from a nearby ...