Eiji Okuda

In 1838, the prisoners on Hachijo Island represent the furthest extreme of Japanese society. Instead of execution, they have been forced to eke ...

Biopic of poet and painter Kamachi Yamada.

The story of Asaki (Eiji Okuda) and his younger brother Shinji (Sho Aikawa). The elder brother has established himself as an author of sports ...

O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the warnings of her fellow workers, ...

Kazuhiko Nakamura directs this sexually charged wacky comedy set in the world of the Japanese adult video industry. The story follows a young ...

Kunio Shibano was bankrupted. He visits a snowland spa area to commit suicide. But he meets Geisha Moeko, and she gives him power to face life ...

Incredibly indolent cop Tomokawa spends his time making fun of his mentally challenged friend Sukemasa, riding his bike all over the city and ...

A warring Yakuza awakens to Christianity and becomes an evangelist. The film is modelled on the real-life “Mission Barabbas,” a ...

Akira’s wife walks out on him, leaving him to confide in his gangster brother-in-law. Using only a cryptic note as a clue the two brothers ...

Based on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East of 1946–48, depicts Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo as a family man who fought ...

Yoshihiko now lives with a couple of old friends, a married couple, Ryosuke and Aya. They share a past in several senses. It was Ryosuke who ...

A hard-boiled man who lived in the world of the Yakuza, leaves everything behind in search of revenge for his great friend.

When an innocent young country girl falls for a low level yakuza, she enters a completely different world in which the line between good and evil ...

Erotic drama based on the comic by Naoki Yamamoto.

A couple years have passed, Matsuzaki is divorced and has a daughter and is still up to his old compulsive gambling, boozing and womanizing even ...

About a group of itinerant actors.

Japanese romantic comedy film.

Based on the manga by Satosumi Takaguchi.

A group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India.

The continuing adventures of Matsuzaki, a racing tipster for a sports paper. Matsuzaki befriends a mysterious old track bettor named Tokudaiji. ...

Tanaka is a yakuza who collects ‘protection money’ from establishments. He has just been released from jail, where he had spent eight ...

Adaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark.

Matsuzaki is a racing tipster for a sports paper, a lowlife who spends half his time drunk, hangs out with yakuza and other riff-raff, and ...

A man who left his corporate job to start a handyman business. He helps a customer stage a fake kidnapping, and ends up being pursued as a murderer.

A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before sharing stories of their own.

The screenplay is Haruhiko Arai of “Tragedy of W” and “Revolver”. The man is a detective who doesn’t take on ...

Jean and her sister, played by Macha Grenon, have a life long infatuation with the Japanese Pianist who once lived across the street from them ...

An anthology exploring the meaning of the Japanese greeting goaisatsu.

Toyoichi Otomo suffers from psychological and spiritual troubles after a horrific industrial accident. He lives with his elderly mother and wife ...