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Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day period...
Typhoon Club
In 1960s Tokyo, Gonda owns a bar in which the gay, cross-dresser, and trans scenes meet. Gonda is in a relationship with the madam of the bar, Leda....
Funeral Parade of Roses
Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan....
Double Suicide
A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural...
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in...
Zigeunerweisen
Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), the imperial loyalist who tried to unite the Choshu and Satsuma clans and...
The Assassination of Ryoma
A married couple of abalone divers must confront ruthless investors taking over their coastline.
Mermaid Legend
Gengobe Satsuma, an exiled samurai cast out as an Asano clan retainer, is given a second chance to join his brothers in arms to become the 48th Ronin...
Demons
A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.
Death by Hanging
A sendup of the stereotypical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a...
The Family Game
An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense...
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
A Man Vanishes examines the concept of Johatsu, tackling the phenomenon of people missing in Japan over the years. It picks one such person from the...
A Man Vanishes
A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among...
Farewell to the Ark
A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles.
Boy
Third is an aimless young man who hangs around with a couple of girls who are amateur hookers. One day, while acting as their pimp, he gets into a...
Third Base
Tadao decides to comes back from Tokyo to live in his home town, in the countryside. He stays at his parents place and finds a job, repairing...
At Noon
A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as...
The Human Bullet
9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies...
I Are You, You Am Me
When a man chases down his stolen movie camera, the thief commits suicide by jumping off a building. But after the police take the camera as...
The Man Who Left His Will on Film