Joe Butterfly

Crows Explode

A month after Genji Takiya graduates, a new battle for supremacy at Suzuran All-Boys High School begins. Transfer student Kaburagi Kazeo combats Kagam

2014

Okiku and the World

Two rogue vagrants make their living as “manure men”, turning the waste from the tenement toilets into fertiliser sold to local farmers. Enter Okiku,

2023

Twisted Justice

Starting in 1970s Hokkaido, the film charts the moral descent of Detective Moroboshi over three decades, the young cop quickly gets a bit too cozy wit

2016

Sensuikan Cappellini-gou no bouken

Based on a real story during WWII where Japanese naval soldiers met Italians who were in the submarine Comandante Cappellini used to transport strateg

2022

Japanese Girls Never Die

While a gang of high school girls randomly beats lone men at night, the photo of a young woman who has been declared missing is used to design a templ

2016

Back Street Girls: Gokudols

Three male gangsters are forced by their boss into becoming a trio of female pop singers.

2019

Jossy's

To battle a malicious monster, five women are gathered in front of Commander Charles against their will. The five women are selected because they each

2014

Samurai Fiction

A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.

1998

Beverly Hills Ninja

Haru, an orphaned American who washes ashore in Japan and is mistaken for the great White Ninja of legend. Raised among the finest Ninjas, Haru grows

1997

Free and Easy 4

Hama-chan and his wife are ecstatic about their long-awaited pregnancy. Meanwhile, Su-san's nephew joins Hama-chan's department at the company.

1991

Chibi Maruko-chan: The Boy from Italy

Students from five different countries arrive in Maruko's town. Maruko and her classmates can barely contain their curiosity, and their new friends ar

2015

Sanjuro

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and

1962

FM89.3MHz

Okawa Family’s yakuza, Junji, is released from prison, and is told to take over a local radio station by his boss. Junji tries to explain that it is n

2007

Hideko the Bus Conductress

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert the dw

1941

Nobody's Perfect

This military service comedy chronicles the misadventures of the U.S.S. Bustard in Japan. The crew has stolen a Buddha statue from a Japanese village,

1968

Miracle in Kasama

Yuka Shibuya, a struggling actress, and Hatsue, a widowed chestnut farmer, meet a mysterious, bloodied man in the farm. The three end up living togeth

2018

Kikujiro

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two begin

1999

Tokyo Home Stay Massacre

Three American late teens travel to Japan to escape a sad past and have some fun but end up trapped in a house with a demented Japanese host family wh

2020

Crayon Shin-Chan: Crash! Rakuga Kingdom and Almost Four Heroes

The kingdom that floats above in the sky, that uses free doodles as an energy source, “Rakuga Kingdom.” However, now in the face of a lack in energy,

2020

Fearless Fagan

A young man brings his pet lion with him when he's drafted into the U.S. Army.

1952