Yoriko Doguchi

In an audacious reworking of the biopic, this ensemble drama sees jazz pianist Minami Hiroshi’s memoir cleverly reinterpreted into a surreal and ...

Although her mother died when she was ten, Noriko still receives yearly birthday cards from her. Her life gets complicated as she grows older but ...

The ever versatile Kazuki Kitamura stars as masterless samurai Kyutaro Madarame, a feared swordsman who has fallen on hard times in old Edo. ...

In January 1946 a British military transport plane departs from Shanghai on its to Tokyo, Japan. During the flight the airplane makes an ...

Ken, a newspaper carrier attends college without registering. Haru was watching Ken steal a piece of bone from an archeology laboratory, ...

A Crowd of Three tells the story of two men, Kenta & Jun, who grew up as almost brothers at a children’s facility. Kenta & Jun now ...

After Japan’s defeat in WWII, “Pandora no hako” follows a young man named Risuke (Shota Sometani) who has contracted ...

In the mountain hot springs of Izu, Japan, a love triangle is waiting to happen. It is the late 1930s when the paths of a stunning woman fleeing ...

For no apparent reason, four strangers find themselves with a rope around their necks, balancing on an unstable chair. They will quickly realize ...

The story centers around the communication between a man who abruptly appears in a world 10,000 years in the future and a boy who lives in that world.

Sakai’s Happiness is a humorous and bittersweet portrayal of an ordinary family dealing with the challenges of everyday life.

2004 film

When elementary school teacher Kobayashi investigates the absence of one of his young pupils from the classroom, he finds himself at the doorstep ...

A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for ...

The former legendary assassin, now living as a bartender after washing his hands of a violent past, unleashes the hidden violence within. Known ...

Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family ...

Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. ...

A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.

Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a brother and sister who want to drive a local yakuza gang member out of their neighborhood.

The struggles of a group of outcasts living in “Yentown”, in an alternate-future Japan.

A duo get mixed up with a girl who finds a trunk load full of heroin.

Having lost everything to horse racing, Yûji accidentally gets 10 million yen. But this sum belongs to a Yakuza.

Yûji and Kosaku are hired to track down an old man. But when he suddenly dies, his granddaughter surfaces with a map to his buried fortune, which ...

Hapless gangsters are hired by the yakuza to tail his daughter. Once the identity of the boy she’s dating has been unveiled, the boss ...

Two petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members, fortunately they are rescued by a kindly Kindergarten teacher.

Japanese film directed by Masahiro Honda.

A former sumo wrestler, now working as a security guard, goes on a murderous rampage.