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- DirectorMomoko AndôStarsSakura AndôMiyoko AsadaBengalSawa Yamagishi worked as a nursing-care helper. The family of an old man asked Sawa to sleep with him.
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsEtsushi ToyokawaYûko AsanoYu Ji Chin YeIn a remake of a well-known Japanese mystery, a man in Kobe does not have a family. He receives a visitor who is a researcher one day who has noticed that the man has a well-off family in Okayama. This village is called Yatsuhakamura. This family has been there for four hundred years. The man decides to visit his new-found family only for a series of murders to coincide with his arrival. This family's lawyer hires a private investigator who begins working on the crimes.
- DirectorToshiaki ToyodaStarsYoshio HaradaRyûhei MatsudaMichio AkiyamaNine convicts escape from prison; most are convicted murderers. They commandeer a van from a strip club.
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsTamotsu HayakawaYoshiko KayamaTaiji TonoyamaA shipyard worker gets an offer of free lodging in the company seaside rest house. Upon arriving there, he finds out that he also has to take care of a flock of undisciplined youngsters.
- DirectorKazushi WatanabeStarsDaijirô KawaokaKazushi WatanabeTakeo NoroStylish road movie in which a kidnapped youth becomes friends with his abductors.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsNagisa ÔshimaWilliam B. WhiteNagisa Oshima explores the first century of Japanese cinema.
- DirectorMasaharu TakeStarsSakura AndôHirofumi AraiYôzaburô ItôA 32-year-old woman living with her parents meets a boxer and finally starts a life.
- DirectorToshio MasudaStarsTatsuya NakadaiTeruhiko AoiToshirô MifuneThe lives and battles of soldiers leading up to the 1904 siege of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.aka 'Hill 203'
- DirectorTatsuya MoriStarsHiroshi ArakiAum Shinrikyo, the Buddhist sect led by Shoko Asahara and responsible for the 1995 Sarin gas attack on a Tokyo subway, becomes the subject of this documentary.
- DirectorTatsuya MoriStarsShoko AsaharaFollows the dissolution of the cult in the absence of their leader, Shoko Asahara.
- DirectorYôji YamadaStarsSayuri YoshinagaTsurube ShôfukuteiYû AoiGinko seems to be living the good life: She's the respectable owner of a neighborhood drug store in Tokyo, and her daughter Koharu is about to get married to a doctor. However, Koharu's wedding day also brings homes Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed actor and a hard drinker who shows up causing trouble. Having covered for him all her life, Ginko is ready to disown her burdensome younger brother, but some things are easier said than done...
- DirectorKeiichi KobayashiStarsAi IkedaEna KoshinoReiko FujiwaraIzumi finds a wallet full of money and loans the cash to an older fishing buddy.
- DirectorMasahiro MakinoStarsChikage AwashimaShinobu ChiharaNizaemon KataokaYukinojô, a traditional impersonator of females in a kabuki troupe (onnagata), courts and takes revenge from the three nobles who twenty years ago forced his parents to commit suicide.
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsMariko OkadaIsao KimuraYukio NinagawaIn an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her volatile lover, and her ex-boyfriend, who she had platonic feelings for.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsYukio MishimaAyako WakaoEiji FunakoshiTakeo is a young yakuza who renounces his former criminal activities after being released from prison. But sometimes escaping the past is not so easy.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsArata IuraErika OdaSusumu TerajimaAfter death, people have a week to choose only one memory to keep for eternity.
- DirectorKenji NakanishiStarsKeiko KitagawaMasahiro KômotoShuntarô MiyaoIto is a young woman, but is not just a pretty face. She wields a sword better than a samurai; better than any man. That is until one day she finally finds someone who is her match on the sword. She is smitten, but is not available any longer. She can, however, become involved in investigating an ensuing crime. Her talent will come in handy.
- DirectorKazuo MoriStarsShintarô KatsuTamao NakamuraMieko KondôBefore he portrayed the legendary blind swordsman, Zatoichi, Shintaro Katsu played Suganoichi, a blind court masseur with a dark side. An outcast since birth, he learned from a young age that the only way to get ahead was to take advantage of others. Now an expert con-artist with a heart of coal, Suganoichi is on a vile quest for power, and everyone else will suffer along the way!
- DirectorMitsuo YanagimachiStarsAsuka OkasakaHiroshi FujiokaQian PoLooks at the lives of Chinese people in Japan.aka 'About Love, Tokyo'
- DirectorChûsei SoneStarsMegumi SakiFujio TakahashiYuri YamashinaThe film follows the rock band "Devils" on stage and off, including the various amorous adventures of the members.aka 'Red Violation'
- DirectorMansaku ItamiStarsChiezô KataokaShôsaku SugiyamaSôjin KamiyamaAkanishi Kakita moved from the countryside to a big city. Although he comes from the samurai class, he now lives in poverty among the common people in times of rebellion, but the failed Kakita is not skilled in martial arts.aka 'Capricious Young Man'
- DirectorSadatsugu MatsudaStarsKusuo AbeKyôko AoyamaChiyonosuke AzumaA famous story of the 47 loyal samurai. When Lord Asano is unjustly executed, his loyal retainers strike back for revenge.aka 'Warriors of Ako'
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsShintarô KatsuJôji AiHiroko IsayamaA man, Asakichi, becomes the target of the yakuza when he relates to a geisha.aka 'Akumyo: Notorious Dragon'
- DirectorAkio JissôjiStarsRenji IshibashiSeiran LiKôji ShimizuA decadent Count in 1920's Japan becomes obsessed with the works of the Marquis de Sade. He creates a theatre to show plays adapted from his novels, and recruits thieves, prostitutes and low lives to act out his fantasies.aka 'Marquis de Sade's Prosperities of Vice'
- DirectorTakashi IshiiStarsYui NatsukawaJinpachi NezuToshiyuki NagashimaNami, the widow of a disgraced narcotics officer seeks to clear his name by going undercover.
- DirectorTakashi YamazakiStarsMaki HorikitaHidetaka YoshiokaShin'ichi TsutsumiLeaving her provincial home, teenage Mutsuko arrives in Tokyo by train to take a job in a major automotive company but finds that she is employed by a small auto repair shop owned by Norifumi Suzuki. Suzuki's hair-trigger temper is held somewhat in check by the motherly instincts of his wife, Tomoe, and his young son Ippei immediately bonds with Mutsuko as if she were his older sister. The Suzuki shop lies almost in the shadow of the Tokyo Tower as it rises steadily above the skyline during construction in 1958. Others in the neighborhood also are striving to better themselves as Japan continues to emerge from the shadow of war. Hiromi has just abandoned her shady life as a dancer to start a sake bar. Abandoned by his single mother, young Junnosuke is first handed off to Hiromi but she passes him off to Ryunosuke Chagawa, a struggling writer who runs a candy shop and only manages to sell adventure stories for boys as his serious novels continue to be rejected. Junnosuke is an avid reader of Chagawa's stories and begins to idolize him upon learning about his authorship. Junnosuke also writes stories, and makes friends with Ippei and others when they discover his tales that show Japan in the hi-tech future of the 21st century.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsAkemi NegishiTadashi SuganumaKisaburo SawamuraFrom June 1944, twelve Japanese seamen are stranded for seven years on an abandoned and forgotten island called Anatahan.
- DirectorYoshimitsu MoritaStarsYûsaku MatsudaMiwako FujitaniKaoru KobayashiDaisuke (Yusaku Matsuda) is supposed to be out looking for a respectable job and equally respectable wife. He is 30 years old and devotes his attention to music and literature; his family is wealthy and can support his interests. When his friend Hiraoka (Kaoru Kobayashi) returns with his wife Michiyo (Miwako Fujitani), problems arise.
- DirectorKazuyoshi KumakiriStarsMegumi AsaokaMakiko EmotoKôji EnokidoYuichiro is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs over him as he wanders Japan's S&M clubs. But his younger brother claims to be able to sense their sister with his "antenna."
- DirectorAkio JissôjiStarsKotobuki HananomotoChisako HaraYasumi HaraA painter makes a lover's suicide pact with the wife of his friend, but does not kill himself; letting her die alone. Five years later, his friend remarries a woman who looks exactly like his dead spouse; who haunts the painter's dreams.aka 'Blue Lake Woman'
- DirectorMikio NaruseStarsMitsuko YoshikawaAkio IsonoSumiko MizukuboTwo Geisha with a connection to a young man deal with life's hardships.
- DirectorMitsutoshi TanakaStarsRei DanAkira EmotoSeiji FukushiSen no Rikyu is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eventually becomes one of the primary influences upon the Japanese tea ceremony. With his elegant esthetics, Sen no Rikyu is favored by the most powerful man in Japan Toyotomi Hideyoshi and becomes one of his closest advisors. Due to conflicts, Toyotomi Hideyoshi then orders Sen no Rikyu to commit seppuku.
- DirectorKôichi GotôStarsKenichi KanedaKôji TamuraShinobu YûkiTadao returns from Tokyo to live in his home town. Living with his parents, he gets a job fixing radios and TV sets. He catches up with an old school friend, Tetsuji. One night Tetsuji decides to elope to Tokyo with a bar hostess.
- DirectorTetsuo ShinoharaStarsNoriyuki HigashiyamaRinko KikuchiMai AsoSet in the fictional Unasaka domain, the story involves a samurai who's obligated to follow an order that could destroy his relationship with his own younger sister.
- DirectorKôji FukadaStarsFumi NikaidôMayu TsurutaTaiga NakanoAfter failing her university entrance exam, Sakuko is invited by her aunt Mikie to spend summer vacation in a beautiful seaside town. Sakuko gets to know the people of the town, including Takashi, a shy relative of her childhood friend.
- DirectorMikio NaruseStarsNobuko OtowaJun FujimakiKamatari FujiwaraSingle mum (father of child dead) from the country with 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family - wife, male, female teens, run a struggling greengrocer - and lives/ works in local inn. He gets bullied/ fights with local boys, goes to the baths, plays basketball, is befriended by his male cousin and becomes friendly with grade 4 girl who's the daughter of the innkeeper, who employs his mum and is the longterm mistress of a businessman from another town, who's the girl's father and who brings her half sister and brother to meet her but they're mean to her. Meanwhile the boy's mother gets friendly with one of the inn's clients and chucks her job for a trip or something more permanent with him. The young girl takes him shopping, and wants the boy to live with her and her mother, but mother and father refuse so the two kids go to a seaside where he sprains his ankle and they're late back even though the police get them and they're in trouble. The boy loses his beetle and tries to get another for the girl for a school project but when he does, she's moved house with her mother at the urging of her father. Clear? It's better in the film.
- DirectorShinji AoyamaStarsMasaki SudaKen MitsuishiYukiko ShinoharaCannes Film Festival winner Shinji Aoyama creates a chilling atmosphere in this adaptation of an award-winning novel. A young man tries to fight the deadly influence of his violent, abusive dad. Will the sins of the father carry on to the next generation in the bloodline?
- DirectorYoshihiro IshikawaStarsRyôhei UchidaKôtarô SatomiKyoko MikageA Vassal kills his lord and his wife with her cat commit suicide to avoid marrying him. Will they return and try to get revenge?
- DirectorTeruo IshiiStarsKôichi IwakiYutaka NakajimaYumi TakigawaTeruo Ishii's West Side Story, done as a bloody, violent, sexploitative biker gang film. It's the Red Chilis versus the Black Cats, and the chick who just may heal the divide.aka 'Detonation! Violent Games'
- DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsKôji TsurutaTomisaburô WakayamaTsunehiko WataseA yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.aka 'Sympathy for the Underdog'
- DirectorSion SonoStarsMotoki FukamiYukie KawamuraTomoharu HasegawaMitsuko Murakami puts the passion to balloon in the hot-air balloon Circle "Airheads". The club gathered young people holding a variety of thoughts. But "Airheads" is disbanded not too long after. Five years later, "Murakami was in a traffic accident" starts to go around between the circle members, and for that reason the members reunite and hold again a large banquet in order to remember Murakami and the days in the Club.
- DirectorMori MasakiStarsIssei MiyazakiCatherine BattistoneYoshie ShimamuraA powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a disturbing story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
- DirectorToshio HirataStarsIssei MiyazakiMasaki KôdaKei NakamuraThree years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.
- DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsShinji AoyamaShirô AtamiShingo IchizawaIn future Japan, a dangerous pollen falls upon Tokyo, endangering its populace. Two people volunteer to become tests subject for a drug that could possibly provide a cure.
- DirectorSeijun SuzukiStarsKen YamauchiMasako IzumiMidori TashiroA teenager is dismissed from school for misconduct. Still violent, he falls in love with a pupil of his new establishment.aka 'The Bastard'
- DirectorSion SonoStarsAkiraEiji OkudaAyumi ItoShiro is twenty-seven years old and is tormented by his father's terminal cancer diagnosis. He copes by communicating his care and love to his father. We see the father and son relationship as it took form and evolved, the difficulties, the temperaments and how the man acted as his son's coach and instructor. Shiro has information he is concealing though and must take a step in that regard as well.
- DirectorTôru MurakawaStarsYûsaku MatsudaMako MidoriAkemi MariA journalist steals a gun from a cop after killing him and goes on a spree of robbery and murder.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsRyûhei MatsudaMasanobu AndôShunsuke KubozukaA visually stylish tale of two male prisoners bonded by emotion, love and murder.
- DirectorKihachi OkamotoStarsKôji TsurutaAkira TakaradaYumi ShirakawaRyuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping to become a successful singer instead. Ryuta loves his brother, but Mineo's possible defection presents problems for the gang, and Ryuta realizes he must kill his brother if he wants to survive.
- DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsAkihiro MiwaEitarô OzawaMasakazu TamuraWhen the enigmatic woman Ryoko (played by Mishima-discovered female impersonator Akihiro Miwa) arrives at the Black Rose Mansion to perform, not only do the gentleman patrons seem smitten by her mystery and beauty, but past flames arrive to vie and die for her affections, as well. But things get even more complicated when the Mansion's manager and his wayward son both fall for the same dangerous woman.aka 'Black Rose Mansion'
- DirectorSabuStarsSusumu TerajimaNaomi NishidaAyako HiraiAfter losing his job at the factory Igarashi aimlessly wanders through Tokyo where he encounters various people and gains insight into their lives.
- DirectorYôichi SaiStarsTakeshi KitanoHirofumi AraiTomoko TabataIn 1923, the Korean teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees. He makes fortune, abuses and destroys the lives of his wife and family, having many mistresses and children and showing no respect to anybody. Later he closes the factory, lending the money with high interests and becoming a loan shark. His hatred behavior remains until his last breath, alone in North Korea.
- DirectorShin'ichirô SawaiStarsTôru KazamaIsako WashioRyô AmamiyaA dying pianist composes one final song for his childhood friend.
- DirectorKenji NakanishiStarsHiroshi AbeKanata HongôAyumi ItoA substitute teacher arrives to take the second year class of a junior high school in turmoil after one of its pupils attempts suicide.
- DirectorToshiaki ToyodaStarsRyûhei MatsudaHirofumi AraiSôsuke TakaokaA group of a run-down Tokyo high school students face the struggles of growing up, growing apart from their friends and worrying about their future, while living in a highly violent environment.
- DirectorTakeshi KitanoStarsTakeshi KitanoYûrei YanagiYuriko IshidaTwo disquieted junior baseball players seek revenge on the local yakuza for attacking their coach.
- DirectorJun FukudaStarsAkira TakaradaBibari MaedaTomomi SawaAn assassin goes on the trail of an international gold smuggling ring based in Japan.
- DirectorKanji NakajimaStarsKôichi HayashiChie MasakiTomoyuki MiuraA withering craftsman caters to the requests of iron ore. He breathes life into them as he listens to their wishes. His most prominent creation, a traveling box, wanders the landscape, following railroad tracks, collecting the memories of people. In this harsh world, life is dwindling and the craftsman designs machines to assist life, even that of a tree. The craftsman is more than a creator as he helps maintain the machines. As his life dwindles, so do the lives of these machines.
- DirectorShûji TerayamaStarsBunta SugawaraKentarô ShimizuMasumi HarukawaA young boxer accidentally kills an ex-boxing champion's brother. He then approaches the ex-champ to train him to become the next champion.
- DirectorAtaru OikawaStarsKaori ShimadaMikio ÔsawaYamato Tanaka, who attempted to murder his father in the past, used to work as a janitor in a theme park. Now unemployed, Yamato lives in a very humble apartment room. He lost his family by the crime he committed with the urge he himself couldn't and even now can explain. He has nowhere to go, and becomes isolated in the big city. His continuous job search is unsuccessful, and one day he meets a young girl Kaoru who is passing out advertisement packaged with free tissue to the crowd at a train station. He aggressively gets involved with her. The two immediately feel the mutual isolation and desperation within themselves. These are youngsters with no purpose in their lives, symbolizing the Japanese society which passed the post-war economic peak period. Yamato and Kaoru go down the road of destruction, being sucked into the deep, dark ditch of society. Filling the screen images both stark and surreal, director Ataru Oikawa draws an unadulterated portrait of youth.
- DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsJoe OdagiriTadanobu AsanoTatsuya FujiTwo young guys work in a plant that manufactures oshibori (those moist hand-towels found in some Japanese restaurants). Their weird bond is based on uncontrollable rage--something neither can articulate or control--and the strange jellyfish that they keep as a pet.
- DirectorKazuki ÔmoriStarsMiho KannoMiki MizunoMiki Nakatani
- DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsShin'ya TsukamotoKirina ManoTatsuya NakamuraA man sees his life changed forever when his fiancee shoots herself. Baffled, he wants by all means to obtain such a weapon of destruction and he finds himself caught in the middle of a violent group of young vicious punks. They first beat him severely and then he seeks revenge with his fist, then with a gun. Everything from then on is a complete downward spiral.
- DirectorAkihiko ShiotaStarsHôshi IshidaMitsuki TanimuraHidetoshi NishijimaBased on the true events of the deadly gas attacks perpetrated by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult on the Tokyo subway system, CANARY tells the moving story of two children, each abandoned by their families, who come together in the wake of the scarring event. Twelve-year-old Koichi has grown up within the confines of a religious cult whose violently instilled dogma has all but destroyed his sense of identity. After a murderous attack, the cult disbands and Koichi finds himself abandoned by his mother and forcibly separated from his sister. To reunite his broken family, Koichi breaks out of the child welfare system and sets off to Tokyo. While on the run, he meets Yuki, a girl desperate to flee from her abusive father. Koichi and Yuki travel together in search of his sister, facing the inevitable troubles of children making their way in the world without the guidance or protection of adults. The separate scars of their pasts cause friction between the two, but their struggles develop a familial bond that allows them to confront both their pasts and the future ahead. Beautiful and poignant, Akihiko Shiota's film illustrates the resiliency of forgotten youth in forging their own destiny from a tragic past. For more information, please visit www.canarythemovie.com
- DirectorShinji SômaiStarsKen OgataMasako NatsumeKôichi SatôA young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend's father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the older man to teach him the secrets of his dangerous trade.
- DirectorKei KumaiStarsJûkichi UnoIzumi AshikawaHideaki NitaniThe appearance of the corpse of a U.S. Army sergeant triggers a series of unexpected events.
- DirectorHideo NakataStarsJun KunimuraKen MitsuishiMasato HagiwaraA handyman becomes involved in the plot to kidnap a businessman's wife, which goes haywire after her mysterious death.
- DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsSayuri YoshinagaKeiko MatsuzakaKen OgataPoet Akiko Yosano is a poor woman with many children, she composes while doing the housework. Her passion flows towards Takeo Arishima, a noted novelist.
- DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsKoji YakushoHiroyuki IkeuchiRen ÔsugiA seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action. Leaving his job and family without explanation, he makes his way to a mountain forest, where there is a peculiar tree called charisma. Should it be destroyed or protected? People stand divided over this one tree.
- DirectorShun NakaharaStarsHiroko NakajimaMiho TsumikiYasuyo ShirashimaAt an all-girls school, a group of girls prepare for a stage performance of Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard".
- DirectorMasahiro ShinodaStarsTetsuya FujitaYuji HoriokaKatsuhisa YamazakiBombing during World War II resulted in whole urban populations fleeing to the countryside, and this created a meeting of urban and rural cultures. Shinji (a young boy evacuated from Tokyo) and his new schoolmates (who are villagers) don't exactly know what is going on in the war. They see the B-29 bombers and the glow of cities on fire, but the problems of being separated from one's mother and surviving among one's peers loom larger than international politics.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaOsamu TakizawaMasao ShimizuPost war Hiroshima: It's been four years since the last time she visited her hometown. Takako faces the after effects of the A-bomb when she travels around the city to call on old friends.
- DirectorKeisuke KinoshitaStarsGô KatôYukiyo ToakeMasatomo NakabayashiThe atom-bombing of Nagasaki, Japan in 1945 is recalled by a survivor.
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsHikari IshidaTomoko NakajimaToshinori OmiFollows two sisters, one clumsy and ignored, the other a perfect child. After the latter dies in an accident, she returns as a ghost to guide her little sister.
- DirectorKaizô HayashiStarsHiroshi MikamiMoe KamuraJian XiuTwo brothers, Jinta and Wataru, are raised in a travelling circus. After an accident, Jinta decides to leave the circus and travels the countryside working as a con-man. After a run-in with a local gang of yakuza, he is invited to join their ranks, where he makes the mistake of falling for a boss's mistress. Wataru stays with the circus and works hard to regain its former glory.
- DirectorYôji YamadaStarsToshiyuki NishidaEiko ShinyaKeiko TakeshitaAt a night school a diverse group of students ranging from teenagers to elderly, smart to under-developed and of different races have been assembled to study and finally hopefully graduate.
- DirectorKanji NakajimaStarsMitsuhiro OikawaEri IshidaHiromi NagasakuThe Clone Returns Home is a compelling meditation on the paradox of life and death, and the meaning of love and family. Set in an imaginary - yet utterly imaginable - future, this quietly provocative film skillfully transposes complex emotional drama into the realm of science fiction by exploring the influence of technology on human memory and experience. Filled with stunning imagery and haunting stillness, The Clone Returns Home deftly combines subtly nuanced sci-fi with a uniquely Japanese perspective on the universal themes of family, life, love, and death.
- DirectorYôjirô TakitaStarsYûya UchidaYumi AsôTakeshi KitanoKinameri is a moderately successful television journalist itching for a big scoop. So when a corrupt local businessman barricades himself in his house, of course he's going to be excited with things picking up.
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsMariko OkadaRuriko AsaokaIneko ArimaThe lives of three movie actresses unfold, transform and get exposed. Each of them owes their choice of profession to a respective traumatic event.
- DirectorGen TakahashiStarsShun SugataHarumi InoueTakayoshi AraiTakeda (Shun Sugata) is an honest police officer, father and husband, but after he's promoted to detective he quickly becomes embroiled in dirty back room dealings, blackmail, and corruption that goes right to the top of the force. Meanwhile renegade investigator Kusama (Junichi Kawamoto) must decide whether he should shake the foundations of Japanese law enforcement with the information that has come into his possession about the police. What will happen if both these men listen to their consciences?
- DirectorShun NakaharaStarsKaoru KobayashiJun FubukiTôru MasuokaThe story of two middle-aged persons of opposite sex who are attending a reunion after many years of absence and unfamiliarity takes a turn when through flashbacks we see the love and crush that existed, but was never acted upon, back in those heady high school days. It is, however, better late than never.
- DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsKôichi SatôSaki TakaokaKeiko OginomeWhen Tamiya Iyemon joins the Asano Clan, he brings with him a legacy of death. Aside from Horibe Yasubei, he is the only one with fighting experience and could help the group carrying out their long-awaited vendetta against Lord Kira.
- DirectorKôji WakamatsuStarsTasuku EmotoEtsuko SekiKaori KobayashiA Japanese teenager bicycles aimlessly through the countryside after killing his mother.
- DirectorKihachi OkamotoStarsTôru KazamaHiroshi NishikawaKatsuyasu UchidaA wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange interchange of roles takes place between captors and captive, to the difficulty and eventual astonishment of the prefecture's Chief of Police.aka 'Rainbow Kids'
- DirectorMikio NaruseStarsSô YamamuraMieko TakamineMariko OkadaThe troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the family.
- DirectorHiroshi InagakiStarsToshirô MifuneKyôko KagawaYuriko HoshiMohei is a wandering swordsman. He arrives in the city of Osaka, where the Toyotomi clan accepts him and comes to depend upon his courage and his battlefield skills. Those skills are sorely tested when Osaka Castle is besieged by the army of the opposing Tokugawa clan.
- DirectorTakatsugu NaitôStarsKazuki Hiro'okaShinya KoteAkaji MaroManzo is a lonely fisherman almost in his 40's but still single. When the local government organizes a matchmaking party Manzo figures to try his luck.
- DirectorKiriô UrayamaStarsKôji ShimizuRie KimuraMayumi MiuraNakata, a writer, lives with the painful memory of the death of his wife, whose life was cut short a few years earlier. Was it an accident or was it suicide? Doubt persists. In order to escape his guilty conscience, Nakata gives up on marriage and fatherhood. Thus freed, he embarks on an obsessive sexual jeorney and records his adventures in a book, "The Dark Room". A philisophical essay on sexuality, reproduction and the fate of mankind.
- DirectorKeiichi HaraStarsAoi MiyazakiMayu MatsuokaYûko TanakaAs a young man, Keisuke Kinoshita (Ryo Kase) carried his mother on a handcart across a mountain. He grew up as a hotblooded young man and was monitored by the military. He then joined Shochiku movie company, to eventually become a movie director.
- DirectorSabuStarsYûya TegoshiHanae KanMiki NakataniShuji and his older brother Shuichi live in a sad resort town that has a virtual wall in its middle. Looking to rise him above his surroundings Shuji meets and interacts with a priest with a past, a pretty hostess, a troubled girl, a thug and more. Looking for the girl who has moved with his family to Tokyo the boy meets trouble and is sinking quickly.
- DirectorMiwa NishikawaStarsTsurube ShôfukuteiEita NagayamaTeruyuki KagawaA young medical intern student is dismayed when he is assigned to work in a remote countryside village.
- DirectorKichitarô NegishiStarsHiroko YakushimaruYûsaku MatsudaLisa AkikawaA private detective and a college student find themselves in hot water while investigating the murder of a night club owner.
- DirectorKazuya ShiraishiStarsTakayuki YamadaPierre TakiLily FrankyJournalist Shuichi Fujii receives a letter from convicted killer Junji Sudo. Writing from death row, Sudo wants to confess to crimes unknown to the police. On visiting Sudo in prison, Fujii learns about a real estate broker called "Doc" who masterminded a string of murders that Sudo worked muscle for. Set up by Doc, Sudo seeks revenge and implores Fujii to find the evidence needed to bring in his former boss. Working off Sudo's sketchy memories, Fujii begins to piece together a grizzly tale of extortion, torture, rape, and arson. But as his desire to see Doc brought to justice nears the boiling point, he runs into resistance from his editor, who views the story as tripe, the police, who seem indifferent to the case, and his wife, who is at her wits' end dealing with his mother's increasing dementia. Based on true crime cases, "The Devil's Path" exposes the secret underbelly of crime in modern Japan.
- DirectorKeigo KimuraStarsSô YamamuraAyako WakaoKeizô KawasakiA wealthy old man, Utsugi has recently suffered a stroke which has paralyzed his right hand and significantly reduced his quality of life. He currently operates a large household with a number of live-in staff, including a round the clock nurse, his wife, son, daughter-in-law, and grandson. The son, Joukichi, is a successful executive currently having an affair with a cabaret dancer, leaving his extremely beautiful wife, Sachiko, herself also formerly a dancer, at a loose end. Though approaching the end of his life and possibly physically incapable of acting on his desire, Utsugi is consumed with lust for Sachiko and thinks of little else but how to convince her to allow him even the smallest of intimacies. Sachiko, for her part, is not particularly interested in pursuing a romantic entanglement with her aged father-in-law but is perfectly aware of her power over him which she uses to fulfill her material desires. Meanwhile, Utsugi's rather pathetic behavior has not gone unnoticed by the rest of the household who view his desperation with a mix of pity, exasperation, and outrage.
- DirectorAkinori NagaokaStarsRena TakahashiGô KatôFumie KashiyamaDuring World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
- DirectorKazuki ÔmoriStarsMasato FuruoyaRan ItôMasahiro MitsutaA medical student wonders if he's really cut out to be a doctor.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsArata IuraYûsuke IseyaSusumu TerajimaMembers of a cult, modeled on Aum Shinrikyo, sabotage a city's water supply, then commit mass suicide near the shores of a lake. Family members of those affected by it meet at the lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ones' deaths.
- DirectorYôichi SaiStarsTsutomu YamazakiTeruyuki KagawaTomorô TaguchiA man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon their individuality.
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsKoji YakushoYûko AsanoTsurutarô KataokaNew magistrate cleans up a corrupt town in his own comic Samurai way.