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The Weavers of Nishijin captures the process of traditional textile manufacture in Nishijin.
The Weavers of Nishijin
Bison, the ruthless leader of the international terrorist organization Shadowlaw, has been desperately searching for the greatest fighter on the...
Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie
A motocross rider avenges his father's death
Shy Security
Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset...
Madadayo
Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica.
Antarctica
Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a...
Samurai Spy
Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring...
Assassination
Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by...
Silence Has No Wings
It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he...
The Rocking Horsemen
Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother's struggle to rebuild their...
The Petrified Forest
Kogarashi Monjirō Returns
An adventurous young boy named Jack climbs a giant beanstalk to a magical kingdom governed by a greedy, tyrannical giant.
Jack and the Beanstalk
Shingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko wants to know who is the true father of Takashi, born by...
Impasse
Documentary on Japan-Korea relations
Kamigami no rirekisho
The biography of Mifune Chizuko a woman clairvoyant.
Shinobu Otake's Inspirational Girl: Youth Lived by Love and Psychic Powers
Japanese crime film.
トップ屋を殺せ
Deaths in Tokimeki tells the story of a nondescript hitman, in a remote country villa, waiting to carry out a job: the assassination of the leader of...
Deaths in Tokimeki
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several...
Four Days of Snow and Blood
Ryo, a young former banker, gets beaten up over a debt from gambling. A yakuza boss saves him, and Ryo decides to train to become a yakuza under him.
Those Swell Yakuza
The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed and plenty of leftovers to munch on....
Twilight of the Cockroaches
The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh...
Noh Mask Murders
The Corporation
A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to...
Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku
Mars Sweet Home
The year is 1945. After the horrific fire-bombings of the Pacific War levels Japan to the ground, the government decides to consult spiritual...
Tokyo: The Last War
Do humans have the right to judge and kill other humans? This program includes a history of capital punishment around the world through documentary...
The Shocking History of the Death Penalty