16mm film by Teiji Aoyama and Izumi Suzuki's last acting performance. Completed shortly before the director's death. The film has not been screened since the 1980s, however, and may be lost
A married woman and her lover murder her husband and dump his body into a well, but his ghost returns to haunt them as the local gossip intensifies.
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A former Buddhist monk turned erotic filmmaker, Subuyan lives with hairdresser Haru and her two teenage children. Shooting two skin flicks per day, he somehow manages to stay out of the clutches of the yakuza, but real trouble starts when Haru discovers him lusting after her daughter.
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Haruto Asakura falls in love with hairdresser Misaki Ariake and asks her out. Watching Misaki Ariake work hard to achieve what she wants, Haruto Asakura, who almost gave up his dream to become a photographer, begins to pursue his dream again, but Misaki Ariake is diagnosed with a disease that ages her 10x faster than normal.
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Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash.
Shares a lead actor
Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love.
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Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.
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An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense familial dysfunction, psychosexual alienation, and existentialist malaise.
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A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.
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A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.
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A story about the disappearance of Kirishima, a star athlete of the volleyball club, and how his disappearance affects every person in school.
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Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash.
Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering on a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.
An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense familial dysfunction, psychosexual alienation, and existentialist malaise.
Five women get hunted in the Massacre Woods.
The mother is unfulfilled, the father has affairs, the son fantasizes and the budding daughter is growing curious. Just your normal family until a right-wing bi-sexual teacher shows up and causes chaos.
Based on Minoru Nagao's 1969 experimental book Illustrator: Basara ningen.
A high school student rallies his classmates into rebelling violently when the administration refuses to take responsibility for the suicide of one of the students.
An aphasic young boy living in South Korea meets, on one of his regular paths, a “Koguryo Beauty” who shows him how to trace his heritage.
A young and beautiful female instructor. While she has a physical relationship with a guard, she also serves as a spy for the warden. She disguises herself as a prisoner and sneaks into the cells, cleverly finding out the prisoners' secrets and reporting them to the warden. As a result, a thought criminal commits suicide, and a colleague who became involved in lesbian relations with a female prisoner is punished.
During clashes between demonstrators and police that rage on the streets of Tokyo, a young man hides in the house of his brother - a police officer. The latter is accidentally shot by his wife, which forces the young man to flee with her.
Shirō raids the office of the organization that attacked his lover, wreaking havoc and escaping with a stolen handgun. In retaliation, the organization hires two killers to get rid of Shirō. The duo begin to develop a strange kinship with their target...
Two men, a freeter (played by Shusuke Fukutoku) and a man who used to be a non-combat solider (played by Junpei Goto), becomes involved in a cruel crime.
It’s said that people die twice. The first death is a physical one and the second, true death comes when there is no one to remember that person.
A chubby, bicycle-riding rapist/killer dispatches 13 people in a cold, bloody, detached rampage.
A popular poet, Goku, becomes depressed when his editor jokingly suggests that he is a sell-out.
Based on the comic by George Akiyama
A press photographer returns to Japan from the war in Vietnam after losing his friend and fellow photographer on the battlefield.
An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own advantage by turning the incident into an advertising campaign. With the success of the campaign, however, he is no longer a desperate man pointing a gun to his head, but a potential leader who wishes to take advantage of his failed suicide.
A young man reaches adolescence and escapes the nunnery where he survived a tortured upbringing; the world outside suddenly seems even more frightening than before.
Three violent and disillusioned students share an apartment. Their search for a place in society is through porn, fights, rape, and voyeurism. Not even leftist, militant student organizations are able to channel their youthful frustration.
