
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor Keikoh’s son Ouso expects to succeed his father Read More »
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Exchange Students (1982) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Satomi Kobayashi, Toshinori Omi, Makoto Satô

9th-graders Kazuo (boy) and Kazumi (girl) take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Read More »
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 »