Jun Kunimura

Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism. His faith in pacifism, however, is shaken ...

A successful businessman and his alcoholic wife attempt to piece together their unhappy lives and shattered marriage. Little do Nagai and Akira ...

A young teen’s father dies, and he is sent to an orphanage. He’s teased because he stutters almost runs away, until a beautiful, ...

Awkward and withdrawn, Masako kills her sister in an explosion of pent-up humiliation and rage that sends her tumbling into fugitive life.

A man gets involved in a kidnapping scheme with the wife of a wealthy businessman. She lets herself be tied up and confined in his house while he ...

Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their ...

It depicts the fierce battle between the Shanghai Mafia, who is trying to expand its power with sneaky hands, and Kuroiwa, the young head of the ...

While on a cigarette break in between sets, Koji, a jazz musician, witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Linda, who is being pursued by the ...

Kikujiro schemes to steal Shooting Star, a renowned race horse, and enter him into top prize horse race, but things don’t go to plan.

A full-scale drama that visualizes a feature-length novel by Koichi Iiboshi from “Battle Without Honor and Justice.” It depicts a ...

During a quest to find a Taiwanese father’s grave, disturbing memories of child abuse are aroused.

Fu and Suzu are two hedonist girls who decide to take to the road. They set off on a journey to visit the tomb of a small pig by name Pupu. On ...

Depicts the life of a family in a remote Japanese timber village. Family head Tahara Kozo lives with his mother Sachiko, wife Yasuyo, nephew ...

After seeing her husband off to work, the young author identified only as Yoshiko sets off to read the large collection of letters she received ...

An ex-boxer working for a game parlor owner gets caught up in a complex blackmail operation he doesn’t understand. Before long he’s ...

The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. It’s a small god with a pointed head, a ...

The thug is now back in Shaba as a legendary hitman!

A young rebel falls for the sister of a local kickboxing champion. In order to stay out of jail, he is advised by his parole officer to begin ...

Directed by Banmei Takahashi of “New Love in Tokyo.” A drama centered around identity, with a half Korean/Japanese man and a ...

A docudrama about the boxer Jôichirô Tatsuyoshi. The documentary part follows Tatsuyohi for 18 months, from his comeback from an eye injury to ...

The members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their hometown, they move from Shikoku to Tokyo and ...

A school bus driver’s life is irrevocably altered when his young son is kidnapped and murdered.

Set in Osaka’s Shinsekai, the film depicts the lives of Ayumu Tobita (Hidekazu Akai), who makes a living as a shogi gambler (shinken-shi), ...

A cop gets buried under steel rebars while pursuing triad bank robbers through a construction site. He gets reanimated supernaturally and becomes ...

A tragic love story set against the always volatile and oftenviolent backdrop of Shanghai during the Japanese occupation and at the opening of ...

The story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very different men – one the happy-go-lucky yakuza ...