As the film begins, Kuroki, a journalist for a trade paper, is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. Read More »
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Love Exposure AKA Ai no mukidashi (2008) Sion Sono, Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Andô
Three emotionally abused people from the fringes of society get locked in a convoluted love triangle. Read More »
Basara – The Princess Goh AKA Gô-hime (1992) Hiroshi Teshigahara, Rie Miyazawa, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshiya Nagasawa
Chronicles the trials and tribulations of Oribe, the successor to tea-master Rikyu, Usu, his gardener Read More »
The Army (1944) Rikugun – Keisuke Kinoshita
Kinoshita’s ambitious and intensely moving film begins as a multi-generational epic about the military legacy of one Japanese family Read More »
Death Powder AKA Desu pawuda (1986) Shigeru Izumiya, Takichi Inukai, Rikako Murakami
Two people, a man and a woman enters a warehouse that will change their life and minds forever. Read More »
Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare AKA Yôkai daisensô (1968) Yoshiyuki Kuroda, Yoshihiko Aoyama, Hideki Hanamura, Chikara Hashimoto
When a Babylonian vampire comes to old Japan, an army of Japanese demons and ghosts gather and battle him. Read More »
Kekkô Kamen 2: We’ll Be Back… AKA Kekkô Kamen 2 (1992) Yutaka Akiyama, Kenji Yamaguchi, Rie Nakano, Rie Kondoh
Mayumi and the other students are suspected of cheating and put in the torture room, where a device is waiting on them. Read More »
Keko Mask: The Birth AKA Kekkô Kamen (1991) Hikari Hayakawa, Hajime Tsukumo, Kenji Yamaguchi, Akira Ôizumi
The young girls at the Spartan School are protected from the evil school director by the superhero Keko Mask. Read More »
Cash Calls Hell AKA Gohiki no shinshi (1966) Hideo Gosha, Tatsuya Nakadai, Ichirô Nakatani, Hisashi Igawa
Fresh out of prison, a broken man reluctantly takes a job to kill three men, but changes his mind when some gangsters target the same men. Read More »
9 Souls AKA Nain souruzu (2003) Toshiaki Toyoda, Yoshio Harada, Ryûhei Matsuda, Genta Dairaku
Nine convicts escape from prison; most are convicted murders. They commandeer a van from a strip club. Read More »