Tells the story of three bottom-dog boxers who gets used as punching bags. Pro boxer Suenaga Akira fell off the path to greatness but still tries...

A successful Japanese movie director in his sixties becomes increasingly ill while working on his latest film. Though his family, friends, and...

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

Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) who has a crescent-moon-shaped scar on his...

A phone conversation occurs between a man and a woman. They both state their love for each other and that they will do this so they can be together...

A photographer who takes pictures of a rendezvous between a politician, company president and yakuza boss is later found dead and the film missing.

Katagiri, a highly ambitious young detective, teams up with older detective Takiguchi, who is about to retire, to investigate a murder that took...

19-year-old freeter (a Japanese expression for people between the ages of 15 and 34 who lack full time employment or are unemployed, excluding...

A five-part comedy and horror anthology

Retired samurai Kumosuke lives quietly, not to say idly, in Edo (old Tokyo) with his wife and two children, a young boy named Shinnosuke and an...

A compelling human drama about the growing social problems and public responsibilities regarding the welfare and ethical treatment of neglected...

Rumiko Arai, a 20-year-old girl working in a sawmill, meets a driver, Sekiguchi, and they begin a relationship with the promise of marriage. But...

Natsuki takes care of her young autistic brother. She then meets her old childhood friend and falls in love, unfortunately he suffers from a...

1980 Japanese film.

A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Daibyonin" a.k.a. "The Last Dance".

The ambition of a man and a woman who try to steal 20 million dollars in an American military vault