The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1)

Merciless Blade Part 3

The final film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

1953

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the suicide bombing of a young girl and is forced to und

1999

The Bridge on the River Kwai

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence

1957

Dolls

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is

2002

Behind the Painting

An older Nopporn looks at a simple painting and recollects the story behind it. As a young student in Japan, he once met and fell in love with Kirati,

2001

Merciless Blade

The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

1953

Merciless Blade Part 2

The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

1953

Pilgrimage at Night

Adapted by Yasumi Toshio and directed by Toyoda Shiro, this is a literary work based on a full-length novel of the same name published by Shiga Naoya

1959

Beaten by Black Rain

Many years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the survivors (called hibakusha in Japanese) are still physically and emotionally devastated by the

1984

The Cinderella Addiction

Fukuura Koharu works at a child welfare office and plunges into despair overnight. Then she meets Daigo, a private-practice doctor raising his 8-year-

2021

Kindaichi Kosuke vs Akechi Kogoro

The Ganso and Honke are two medical wholesalers which have had a long history of exchanges. They were originally a wholesaler set up by Tokiya Manemon

2013

In Wake of the Crashing Dawn

In a dystopian present, a young Japanese-American man battles the cascading effects of his family's wrongful incarceration in the 1940s.

2020

Curse of the Golden Flower

During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest

2006

Rashomon

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justi

1950

The Last Samurai

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and th

2003

Midnight Swan

Nagisa is transgender. She grew up in Hiroshima as a man, but now lives in Shinjuku, Tokyo as a woman. Due to an incident, she begins to live with mid

2020

Mayura

Mayura challenges an arrogant wrestler and defeats him. Though never formally trained he has only learned techniques of wrestling by observing others.

1975

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

The Eternal Labyrinth

A day before the Democracy Monument will be demolished, on the day when the vicious circle comes to an end. The destiny of a mysterious photographer,

2022

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