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Loved Gun (2004) Kensaku Watanabe, Masatoshi Nagase, Aoi Miyazaki, Hirofumi Arai
Loved Gun is a story about a hitman named Hayamada who carries a distinctive red gun. Read More »
Girl’s Blood (2014) Koichi Sakamoto, Yuria Haga, Oshima Haruka, Sanae Hitomi
“Girl power” takes on a new meaning in Girl’s Blood, the erotic action drama based on a light novel by award-winning writer Sakuraba Kazuki (My Man). Read More »
The Age of Assassins (1967) Kihachi Okamoto, Tatsuya Nakadai, Reiko Dan, Hideo Sunazuka
A nerdy young college instructor named Shinji Kikyo returns home one day to find himself the target of a mad assassin. Read More »
Tracked (1985) Hideo Gosha, Ken Ogata, Atsuko Asano, Takuzô Kawatani
A man who is jailed for murdering his family after he confessed, escapes. Read More »
Beautiful Sunday (1998) Tetsuya Nakashima, Momoko Bitô, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ittoku Kishibe
A hit man in black struggles into an apartment complex. It turns out that the apartments are hosts to a cornucopia of characters. Read More »
Red Handkerchief (1964) Toshio Masuda, Yûjirô Ishihara, Ruriko Asaoka, Hideaki Nitani
A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. Read More »
Travelers (2013) Koichi Sakamoto, Nao Nagasawa, Ayumi Kinoshita, Sanae Hitomi
Dimension Police top agent Ai (Nao Nagasawa) travels to a parallel dimension to catch a criminal from a different world. Read More »
Brutal Tales of Chivalry (1965) Kiyoshi Saeki, Ken Takakura, Ryô Ikebe, Yoshiko Mita
After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Read More »
A Tale Of Africa (1980) Susumu Hani, Simon Trevor, Kathy, Philip Sayer, Heekura Simba
An old man (Jimmy Stewart) has settled in Kenya, in a remote cabin, with his adult granddaughter and several of her “animal friends”. Read More »
Attack Squadron! (1963) Shûe Matsubayashi, Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Takashi Shimura
Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. Read More »
Firebird: Daybreak Chapter (1978) Kon Ichikawa, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Toshinori Omi, Masao Kusakari
This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made Read More »
Tale of a Scarface (1999) Eiichi Kudô, Kiyoshi Nakajo, Nagare Hagiwara, Ken Kanako
“Gunro no keifu” is known as “Tale of a Scarface.” It follows the life of Kumoro, a yakuza member Read More »
The Incorrigible (1963) Seijun Suzuki, Ken Yamauchi, Masako Izumi, Midori Tashiro
A teenager is dismissed from school for misconduct. Read More »
Touching the Skin of Eeriness (2013) Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Shôta Sometani, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Hôshi Ishida
When a boy loses his father he moves in with his older half-brother. Read More »