I Just Didn't Do It

Assassins for sale

Nagasaki at the end of the Edo period had the taste of a criminal paradise, where, despite the exotic, dangerous work was always in demand. Here, thre

1963

Hanagatami

Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his aunt cares for his ailing cousin. Immersed in the se

2017

Tora-san of Goto

This documentary film follows for 22 years a nine-member family involved in the manufacturing of Udon in the Goto Islands, Nagasaki prefecture. Mr. To

2016

The Kanto Region Is Also Expanding

A man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the local yakuza.

1967

THE LEGEND & BUTTERFLY

Oda Nobunaga and Nōhime were originally married to mend a hostile relationship between neighbouring regions. Unfortunately, they were like oil and wat

2023

The Ode to Joy

Based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship of the German POWs with the director of the camp a

2006

Liz and the Blue Bird

In their last year of high school, two girls in the brass band club perform a song inspired by a fairy tale that parallels their friendship.

2018

Judas

High school student Erika is sick and tired of her weakness. By chance, Erika begins working at a cabaret night club. She eventually becomes the top l

2013

Suite Dreams

New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment and a speci

2006

The People Garden

Sweetpea searches for her missing rock star boyfriend Jamie in a forest in Japan.

2016

Sasurai no modae

Two people who love each other are separated due to a certain incident. Two years later, the man has become an assassin. A story about an encounter be

1973

Sukekomashi no okite SEX hōrō-ki

Shohei Yamamoto, a man whose marriage proposal was rejected because of his low educational background. From then on, he hated all women and seduced an

1973

Happy Hour

Four women in their thirties reevaluate their relationships, both shared and private, after a startling revelation concerning one's marriage forces ea

2015

Kakekomi

Kakekomi tells the stories of Edo women in the 1800s that escape abusive husbands and lovers by taking refuge in Tokeiji, a monastery in Kamakura.

2015

A Branch of a Pine Is Tied Up

"The Pine's Branches" is the latest work in Murata Tomoyasu’s series “Sei toshi ni matsuwaru kioku no tabi (Journey through memories of life and death

2017

Thermae Romae

The story follows a Roman architect named Lucius, who is having trouble coming up with ideas. One day, he discovers a hidden tunnel underneath a spa t

2012

Pig-Chicken Suicide

Pig Chicken Suicide is a veritable assault on the senses, mixing violent images of animal slaughter, racial strife, and surrealism to tell the story o

1981

The Scissors Massacre

Three sisters grow up on a chicken farm in a small town in Gifu. The oldest sister, Yukie Sawada, is engaged to be married, the middle sister, Sachiko

2008

I Wish

Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will p

2011

Samurai Assassin

Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assass

1965