El pintoresco monje budista Shinkai (Tomisaburo Wakayama) es un religioso poco habitual: Bebedor, mujeriego, jugador empedernido… Y además avezado artista marcial. En los primeros años de la era Meiji (alrededor de 1870), cuando el portar públicamente espadas se ha prohibido por las nuevas autoridades, Shinkai lleva su cortante hoja envainada en una especie de bastón. Además de su destreza con arma blanca, el monje es un sobresaliente luchador cuerpo a cuerpo.
Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together.
Joe Glazer, un psicoanalista de Nueva York se separa de su esposa embarazada. Alquila un apartamento de soltero en el cual esconde una cámara y graba la vida sexual sin restricciones que lleva para olvidar su ruptura dolorosa. Poco a poco se hunde en la decadencia sexual y psicológica...
"Be with Me" consists of three stories of love vs. solitude: (1) An aging, lonesome shopkeeper doesn't believe in life any more since his wife died. But he is saved from desperation by reading an autobiographical book and meeting its author, a deaf and blind lady of his own age. (2) Fatty, a security guard in his fifties, lives for two things: good food and love for a pretty executive living in his block of flats. But, if it is easy to satisfy his first need winning the heart of the distant belle is a horse of another color. (3) Two teenage schoolgirls get to know each other on the Internet. Soon they fall in love.
The son of an executioner and the assassin he loved yet murdered learns of his origins, leaving his foster parents to avenge his mother's death.
Two police inspectors Triquet and Vergus launch their investigations to arrest a dangerous escaped forger named Mickey Le Bénedictin.
A prison ship on its way to a remote island prison runs aground on rocks and sinks. Mixed survivors of cons and prison guards struggle ashore, only to discover to their horror that another survivor got there first - the murderous & psychotic Leo Rook. Stranded, with no means of escape or call for help, the survivors must face a night of terror as they struggle to survive.
Ocho (Reiko Ike) es una mujer yakuza que se ve involucrada en una trama de tráfico de drogas, cuando investiga una serie de misteriosos asesinatos de mujeres en Tokyo. Pronto se dará cuenta de que detrás de ellos hay un grupo yakuza que explota mujeres obligándolas a transportar la droga en sus vaginas.
A medical intern finds himself drawn into a world of international intrigue after discovering a shrunken human head in his luggage.
The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child. Rescued and adopted by a master swordsman, he has grown into a master swordsman and a very kind gentleman. The time is around 1868 the year that the nails were finally put into the coffin containing the feudal system that nurtured and sustained the samurai. Sugi is confused and unsure about what is happening but his teacher wants him out of the chaos of the multiple power struggles between the various clans.
Hanzo deberá investigar el extraño caso de una aparición fantasmal en el río. Pero durante la investigación Hanzo descubrirá que el fantasma es mas real de lo que parece y que el oro del castillo ha sido robado.
Jean-Marie Fayard es un juez que tiene un expediente que implica a un rico industrial en una serie de muertes inexplicables. Un juez joven, apodado "el sheriff" por su integridad y sus métodos poco ortodoxos en el mundo de la investigación judicial a Saint-Etienne en un negocio difícil: un caso de robo gasolinera con asalto, lo que implicaría indirectamente de los de arriba.
Fayard está convencido que un antiguo comisario está protegiendo a los principales sospechosos. Cuando se dispone más pruebas con las que acorralar a este antiguo comisario, éste es hallado muerto.
Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They become fascinated with a deadly jellyfish.
Tras huir de la justicia llevándose consigo varios millones de dólares, un delincuente decide ocultarse en casa de unos granjeros, pero acaba descubriendo que éstos son más peligrosos que él.
Leonora, una prostituta de mediana edad, aún no ha asumido la pérdida de su hija. Un día, cree verla en el rostro de Cenci, una chica que conoce casualmente durante un trayecto en autobús por las calles de Londres. Leonora se da cuenta de que la chica, a su vez, la confunde a ella con su madre, pero acepta seguirle el juego con la intención de indagar sobre la persona que podría ser una reencarnación de su propia hija.
A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.
Nora and Jock arrive in the strange village of Litan during the Festival of the Dead.
