9th-graders Kazuo (boy) and Kazumi (girl) take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Read More »
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Let’s Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii (1964) Ryuichi Takamori, Kazuo Funaki, Taeko Hamada, Chiyoko Honma
A young man longs to travel to Hawaii, the birthplace of his deceased father Read More »
The Chef of South Polar (2009) Shûichi Okita, Masato Sakai, Kengo Kôra, Kosuke Toyohara
Nishimura has a passion for cooking, but never would he have imagined the task before him now Read More »
Tokyo Marigold (2001) Jun Ichikawa, Rena Tanaka, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Yôichirô Saitô
Based on a novel by Hayashi Mariko, Tokyo Marigold is the story of a modern relationship in modern Tokyo under modern circumstances. Read More »
Girls’ Junior High School: Dangerous Games (1970) Mio Ezaki, Junko Natsu, Jirô Okazaki, Chieko Matsubara
A girl enters a new school and finds that her classmates are hanging out with local yakuza and try to frame a teacher for rape. Read More »
Attack of the Mushroom People (1963) Ishirô Honda, Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno, Hiroshi Koizumi
A group of pleasure-seeking young people are stranded on a mysterious island when their boat crashes. Read More »
Turtle Vision (1991) Hisayasu Satô, Rei Takagi, Naomi Sugishita, Miki Fukada
The story about a deranged woman who gouges out the eyes of the strangers she has sex with. Read More »
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 2 (1966) Kiyoshi Saeki, Ken Takakura, Ryô Ikebe, Yoshiko Mita
A yakuza have to to kill a guy out of obligation. When he gets out of prison he visit his victims grave Read More »
Antena (2004) Kazuyoshi Kumakiri, Megumi Asaoka, Makiko Emoto, Koji Enokido
Yuichiro (Ryo Kase) is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. Read More »
Scarecrow (2001) Norio Tsuruta, Maho Nonami, Ko Shibasaki, Grace Yip
The search for her vanished brother Tsuyoshi leads Kaoru to the lonesome village Kozukata in the Japanese back-land. Read More »
Tomie: Re-birth (2001) Takashi Shimizu, Miki Sakai, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Kumiko Endô
An art student disappears after murdering his model. Read More »
Wuthering Heights (1988) Yoshishige Yoshida, Yûsaku Matsuda, Yûko Tanaka, Rentarô Mikuni
This erotic and violent story taken from Emily Bronte’s classic novel, and Georges Bataille’s analyzes Read More »
She and He (1963) Susumu Hani, Sachiko Hidari, Kikuji Yamashita, Eiji Okada
As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman Read More »
Dragnet Girl (1933) Yasujirô Ozu, Kinuyo Tanaka, Jôji Oka, Sumiko Mizukubo
Tokiko is an office typist who is more pleased at catching the owner’s son attention than he knows. Read More »
Eureka (2000) Shinji Aoyama, Kôji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Masaru Miyazaki
The traumatized survivors of a murderous bus hijacking come together Read More »