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Village of Doom / Ushimitsu no mura (1983) Noboru Tanaka, Masato Furuoya, Misako Tanaka, Kumiko Ohba

An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis Read More »
A Tender Place / Yawaraka na hou (2001) Shunichi Nagasaki, Yûki Amami, Shunsuke Matsuoka, Tomokazu Miura

The story of a person who is looking for her own daughter. Read More »
Temptation of the Mask / Kamen no yûwaku (1987) Hisayasu Satô, Kazuhiro Sano, Kiyoshi Usuda, Naomi Hagio

Sano plays an adopted orphan who is in love with his stepmother and repeatedly raped by his new father. Read More »
Love Hotel / Rabu hoteru (1985) Shinji Sômai, Noriko Hayami, Minori Terada, Kiriko Shimizu

Muraki is in debt after a business failure. When he is unable to pay his debtors Read More »
Stranger (1991) Shunichi Nagasaki, Yûko Natori, Kentarô Shimizu, Takashi Naitô

After serving time for a case of bank fraud, Kiriko now lives a lone quiet life working as a taxi driver on night shifts. Read More »
The Human Bullet / Nikudan (1968) Kihachi Okamoto, Minori Terada, Naoko Ôtani, Yûnosuke Itô

During World War II, a Japanese soldier finds himself assigned to a kamikaze mission against a U.S. battleship. Read More »
Crazy Love / Kureiji Rabu (1968) Michio Okabe, Mami Aoyama, Gulliver, Mitsutaka Ishii

Shot in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo in 1968 when the underground renaissance Read More »
Youth / Seishun (1968) Kon Ichikawa

“Youth” is about a nationwide baseball tournament among high-schools organized by the newspaper Asashi Shimbun. Read More »
Tattoo Ari (1982) Banmei Takahashi, Ryûdô Uzaki, Keiko Takahashi, Misako Watanabe

An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman Read More »