Movies

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...

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of...

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...

A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.

Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman...

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...

Three high school boys leave their dormitory and go to a resort and fall in love.

Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes...

A hardened gangster encounters by chance a woman he hasn't seen since childhood. They are both engulfed in the underground world of intergang warfare.

Alumni of Ibaraki High School learn that one of their classmates is killed in an accident on the tenth anniversary of their graduation, necessitating...

Erotic thriller about a porn photographer who has to deal with a psychopath.

A young woman, Natsuko, is interviewed by a camera crew. Meanwhile, a man with a toy weapon is pursued by other men also armed with toy weapons.

An antique sword exposes tension between three siblings.

Comedy about a woman who finds a new life after she loses her busband.

A young girl is being asked about a man with whom she was keeping company, as her grandmother plays a lament on a shamisen. Then the focus changes to...

1970s Japan saw the rise of biker gangs, known as Bōsōzoku, which drew the interest of the media. God Speed You! Black Emperor follows a...

A travelling group of young people running a pirate radio station from a small truck encounter an eccentric elderly couple who are on the run from...

Rica and Kengo have been living together for the past four years. It's been a very happy time for Rica; the only dark spot being an accident she...

The story of the first century of Japanese cinema from the point of view of the controversial Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Ōshima.