Master
Aki is an unsuccessful 29-year-old actress who eventually became a magician's assistant. While pretending to be hypnotised on the stage, Aki finds the boundary between reality and illusion becoming increasingly vague. For Aki, the only beautiful memory she has was the time spent with her lover Kaito.
In the summer of 1963, flats of modern construction begin to be built in the slums where vagrants and women of the night gather. The city hall's plan is to house the slum dwellers in cultural housing, complete with gas and running water. Kenji, a construction worker, and Yumiko, a waitress at a late-night rest house, meet in the slum, but only at dusk. One day, a Korean worker falls from scaffolding at an apartment building site and dies. The site supervisor and city hall workers bury the corpse in the concrete foundations of the apartment building...
Mimi-chan is a 17-year-old high school student and she lives with her parents in Asagaya, Tokyo. While walking home from school, Mimi-chan is hit by a lightning and meets Raijin Ra San (God of Lightning). Through Raijin Ra San, she also meets 7 other Gods. Mimi-chan soon undertakes an adventure to find something lost by her grandmother.
Told from the viewpoint of the father Morio, "A Boy Called H" follows a young boy named Hajime Senoh, nicknamed "H". His father, Morio runs a tailor shop. With the onset of World War II, their family must endure difficult times. Nevertheless, H is filled with curiosity and a sense of justice. Based on the autobiographical novel "Shonen H" by Kappa Senoh (published by Kodansha, July 9, 1999).
Takaaki Kijima
En su segunda película como director, Shoichi Mashiko adapta la novela homónima Samayou yaiba del escritor Keigo Higashino publicada el 2003. En Tokyo, la adolescente e hija única del viudo Sr. Nagamine es violada y asesinada. Sin ninguna otra razón para vivir, Nagamine buscará a los culpables por su cuenta. Los detectives Oribe y Mano tampoco cejan en la busqueda de pistas..
(segment "Rinne no mura")
Narra la particular vendetta que Hyakkimaru mantiene con los 48 demonios que se repartieron buena parte de su cuerpo, tras el pacto satánico que firmó su propio padre. En su epopeya contará con la ayuda de Dororo, una ladronzuela que también guarda una cuenta pendiente...
(Voice)
Cuatro trabajadores esperan durante la noche alrededor de una hoguera. Al cabo de un rato comienzan a escuchar ruidos extraños.
Wasuke Sato
A couple died in Lake Tazawa in Akita Prefecture, in an apparent double suicide, the circumstances of which were unclear.
Ursu (voice)
Amon es un chico que descubre que tiene el poder de controlar el viento. Este poder es un don que poseen los antiguos habitantes del planeta. Por lo tanto es un bien muy valioso, del que intentará apoderarse Branich, el gobernador del mundo, que desea poder construir el arma definitiva que acabará con toda resistencia a su poder. Amon escapará de las garras de las tropas de Branich junto a Maria, una habitante del pueblo del Mar, la cual ayudará a Amon a descubrir quién es realmente.
Naoko Sugita
Una curiosa historia se produce en una familia japonesa. Madre e hija deciden irse a esquiar, pero desgraciadamente el autobús que las transporta sufre un accidente que provoca la muerte de la madre, no sin que antes transfiera ésta su alma al cuerpo de su hija. Así que ahora ésta posee doble personalidad y piensa como progenitora e hija, provocando situaciones delicadas e incluso hilarantes, en las que se llega a plantear la posibilidad de un incesto al pretender la madre que está en la chica, acostarse con su marido... que a la vez es su padre.
1945, vísperas de la rendición japonesa. En medio de una tensa atmósfera de guerra, el Doctor Akagi, médico de un pueblo pesquero en una de las islas japonesas, está consternado por la cantidad de personas que caen afectadas de hepatitis, primera causa de muerte en el desnutrido país. Ante esta grave situación decide implicarse para salvar su integridad profesional. Se alía con sus viejos colegas; un monje que ha colgado los hábitos, un cirujano nihilista adicto a la morfina y una mujer, formando así un grupo al margen de la sociedad militar japonesa
Boxing Club Manager
Dos amigos de la secundaria viven decepciones y errores durante sus carreras, uno como boxeador y el otro en la Yakuza
Shoko and Mutsuki get married to satisfy their worried parents, but she is well past the age at which a 'good' Japanese woman should marry, and he is in love with a young male college student. The film is less a realistic exploration of gay life than a fairy tale of three young Japanese trying to construct an alternative to the sexual and familial roles given to them by a society turning increasingly emotionally barren.L.
Koji Wakamatsu adapted the Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of a traveling acting troupe.
Rin
A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho. He quickly becomes aware that her life is in his hands when he learns she is hiding from the yakuza.
In this omnibus movie of four stories about teenagers there is a boy who lives next to a university women's dormitory and he checks them out constantly. He finds out about their relationship with men. He decides to forget about them and decides to date a class-mate. Next three boys want to rent a adult video, but cannot due to their age. Instead they make their own. They meet a girl who is a video store clerk. They fall in love. She also happens to be an actress. Next is a boy in a band who cannot play well as his mind is on a girl who is relocating. The said girl has a man on her mind too. In the fourth story, the world is upside down and the students teach their instructors.
Jimmy
Etsuko, a female college student, tries to beat the con artists at their own game after she gets scammed one after another.
A female teacher falls in love with her student
Tokuko's father
In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work
Shobei
A young man working as a cameraman in Tokyo is visited for three days by his parents from the countryside.
Marutoku
Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced to forced labor to build the roads needed to open up the territory.
Arita
Eiji, also known as Choji, quits the shipyard to start Izakaya [Snack Bar] Choji with his wife Shigeko on the outskirts of Hakodate. Eiji once had a girlfriend by the name of Sayo, but she is supposed to be happily married to a pasture owner in the countryside. Then, suddenly one day Sayo shows up at Choji before opening. Sayo is still in love with Eiji. The story expressively portrays the lives of random Choji customers and the daily interaction between Eiji and Shigeko, while also focusing on the feelings between Eiji and his past girlfriend Sayo.
Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to take his place, but gets into an argument with his brother-in-law's boss and returns to the road. He meets a young woman in Niigata who, unbeknownst to him, is a popular enka singer.
Police
Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A mysterious murder took place afterwards, an Ozuka was held responsible. 40 years later, the boy, who became a printing shop owner, was visited by a retired policeman who came from Amagi Pass. The truth then started to reveal itself.
Police Akamatsu
An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II and is frowned upon by his fellow villagers.
After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this project Akutsu becomes involved with Tae Makimura leading to his estrangement from his wife.
An award-winning Japanese film about a child's experiences during the Second World War.
Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.
Kamegiro Sato
Based on the comic book by Leiji Matsumoto.
Chinese Restaurant's Chef
A young woman breaks off her long-term relationship with her boyfriend to move to Tokyo in search of new experiences.
Daigen
A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk.
Police
A surreal period film following an university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.
A 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his neighborhood and keeping a journal of why he doesn't like them. Declaring himself a 'right-winger' and calling in bomb threats against the neighbors he doesn't like, the 19-year-old begins a war of psychological terror against the families in his neighborhood.
The Villager Yoju
La película trata sobre una famosa leyenda del estanque Yashaga, en la que un hombre busca a un amigo desaparecido misteriosamente, un cuento mágico en el que aparecen criaturas extrañas, una princesa desconsolada, y un pacto que no se puede romper. Los conflictos entre la fe y el escepticismo, y entre la obligación social y un dinamismo deseo personal de la narrativa hacia una conclusión dramática en el mundo de lo real y lo surreal, chocan inevitablemente.
Mika Hino is a sharp-shooting investigator that belongs to the infamous "Gator Branch.” When an executive board member of a trading company is accused of being involved in a bribery, Mika is assigned to keep watch over him. A few nights later her target is found dead outside of his 30 floor office building. With an apparent suicide note as evidence, local police conclude the case as a suicide. Mika’s assignment may have ended in failure, but her mission has just begun...
Middle-aged veterinarian
From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With the loss of his master who held a secret to a weapons smuggling case and the corruptions of those who are involved, Goro's adventure unfolds.
Nakai
A plot to steal money from gangsters leads to trouble...
Sakaguchi
A schoolteacher gets a phone call regarding one of her female students. It seems that the young girl has been accused of prostitution, and requests help from her teacher. The young girl's situation brings to mind some dark incidents from the teacher's past that she is still trying to deal with.
Kozo's Sister's Lover
Junko miyashita (A Woman Called Sada ABE, Himatsuri), un ícono de las películas eróticas japonesas de los años 70, interpreta a una misteriosa autoestopista recogida por un bruto de un trabajador de la construcción llamado Kenzo (Renji Ishibashi, Audition) que la lleva de regreso a su ruina. y apartamento estrecho en una parte no tan buena de la ciudad. Afirmando que está huyendo de un marido abusivo, vive con él. En un intento inútil de escapar del sombrío entorno de la clase trabajadora, la pareja entabla una relación erótica obsesiva.
La antigua amante de un hombre se presenta un día en casa de éste y de su actual mujer, con sus tres hijos y desaparece, abandonando así a los tres niños. Para ella, es una venganza y una forma de darle una lección a este hombre que considera irresponsable. Esta situación inesperada no le gusta nada a la esposa legítima, que empieza a sentir un odio incontrolable hacia los niños y piensa hacerlos desaparecer del todo...
Yamashita
Orin es una cantante ciega que se gana la vida en una compañía de músicos ambulantes. Tras ser violada, es expulsada de su compañía por haber perdido la virginidad. Abandonada, a Orin no le queda más remedio que seguir ganándose la vida sola de pueblo en pueblo con sus actuaciones. Durante el camino será presa de personas mezquinas que intentarán aprovecharse de ella, pero también conocerá el amor.
En Tokio, un hombre presencia la muerte por envenenamiento de su abuelo y viaja a su ciudad natal, Yattsu Mura, para encontrar al asesino. Heredero de una fortuna familiar, descubre que hay una maldición que pesa sobre la herencia y que se remonta a la época de los guerreros samuráis.
Kichihei Sawanaka
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia.
Seiu Itō
A somewhat liberal adaptation of the life of painter Shuu Ito, the film focuses on his sexual torture of two wives and a prostitute. Ito chronicles the sessions in journals, shares his pseudo-Sadean philosophy, and drives women mad with equal hell-bent intensity.
Jujiro Tanaka
Remake of 1949 film
Dentist(歯医者)
After his leading actress becomes pregnant and quits his sex film, Juzo becomes obsessed with finding a woman whose moaning he captured secretly at a dentist’s office to star in the film instead.
Bohl
Dos organizaciones con poderes paranormales, ESPY y CONTRAESPY estan enfrentadas. La primera, defensora de la paz mundial; la segunda con el más increíble plan de destrucción de la humanidad. Esta última después de asesinar a un comité de las Naciones Unidas, pretende asesinar a un primer ministro de un país de Europa Oriental. A partir de este momento las dos organizaciones se suman en ataques y contraataques para asesinar o para salvar al primer ministro, utilizando para ello sus poderes telepáticos y telekinéticos.
Iwagi Police Chief
Dos detectives son asignados a la investigación del asesinato de un viejo ex-policía en la estación de ferrocarril de Tokio sin ninguna motivación aparente. Poco a poco, la investigación acabará conduciendo al descubrimiento del pasado oculto de un joven y prometedor músico...
Kayo, who is famous for her beauty, own a bar in a port town. The establishment is always crowded with customers infatuated with her. For the past three years, Kayo has been in a relationship with Murakami, a city councilman. One day, a young man and woman, Jun and Yoko, come to town. They are planning to stow away somewhere, but no one will take them in. Exhausted, they happen to come to Kayo's bar. Eventually, Kayo's past and the man she used to be with are revealed, and Jun and Yoko's desperate actions lead to the story's conclusion...
Tomomi Iwakura
Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), imperial loyalist who tried to unite the Choshu and Satsuma clans and prepared the way for the Meiji Restoration (1868).
Boss
A delirious roman porno re-imagining of Seijun Suzuki's 'Branded to Kill'. Directed by Atsushi Yamatoya and scripted by Yôzô Tanaka, both 'Branded to Kill's' screenwriters and Suzuki's regular collaborators.
Ido
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Pinsuke
The world is in turmoil with the October Revolution of 1917, riots over the inflationary price of rice, and the military expedition to Siberia in 1918. But Shinsuke spends his days in the arms of geishas, paying little heed to the events happening around him.
Satori
There is an ongoing war between two Girl Gangs, the Akabane 100 Club and the Ikebukuro Cavalry. Yukiko, the "Bankaku," or chief bodyguard of the Akabane, is released from reform school and sets about to finish an ongoing one-on-one grudge match with the Arab Falcon and the whole Cavalry gang. With a theme song by 1970s Japanese "Group Sounds" band Carol, and live performance. Rock and Sukeban unite for an extraordinary and cool piece of filmmaking.
Ryunosuke(竜之助)
Sachiko has just committed a crime. She is helped by a couple to whom she grants her confidence. Quickly this couple blackmails her and threatens to deliver her to the police. Sachiko has no other choice but to obey them.
Hisao
Yukie, Koichi and Akira are rogues looking for a place to crash. They move into a house which Etsuko (Kaori Momoi) inherited from her parents. Soon after getting settled, the hippies slip into a communal lifestyle. They eat, have sex, and generally share everything together.
Tercera entrega de la serie de adaptaciones al cine de imágen real del famoso manga escrito por Kazuo Koike y dibujado por Goseki Kojima. Narra las aventuras de un Samurai que trabaja con su hijo siempre acompañándole en sus viajes. Ogami Itto acepta ser torturado por la Yakuza para salvar la vida de una prostituta, y estos alquilan sus servicios. Su objetivo es el malvado chamberlán.
Bunta
Unas barcas dedicadas al contrabando descienden por el río Nakagawa hasta una isla, donde se esconde la mercancía antes de venderla. Allí está la célebre y temida taberna de Fukagawa, cuartel general de una banda de peligrosos contrabandistas. Durante mucho tiempo, no sólo ha sido un lugar intocable para la policía, sino que ha contado incluso con su connivencia. Sin embargo, la llegada de nuevos policías constituye una amenaza para la impunidad de la banda, que se verá obligada a tomar precauciones.
Goro
Several high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure; their halcyon days are soon coming to an end.
Chôhachi
Un samurai ronin solo vive para poder consumar su sed de venganza contra aquellos que le despojaron de cuanto le rodeaba. Un estudio acerca de cómo la manipulación y los sentimientos interesados pueden llevar a un hombre a perder todo ideal. Un inusual chambara, cercano al cine experimental, firmado por uno de los nombres claves de la Nueva Ola Japonesa.
During clashes between demonstrators and police that rage on the streets of Tokyo, a young man hides in the house of his brother - a police officer. The latter is accidentally shot by his wife, which forces the young man to flee with her.
Koji
A masterpiece of militant cinema of 1968, filmed on the actual barricades of Adachi's very own Nihon University during the period of social struggles. The film begins in a lengthy free-love session taking the form of a 'play' rape being enacted by a group of aimless, listless and political apathetic students. The subtext intended by Adachi informs the rest of the film – that there is a world of difference between direct action politics, and merely talking the talk.
Dark, cynical Japanese epic brought to U.S. in a dubbed version by shlockmeister Harry Novak. Still, this gory, sexy epic is made with style and interesting for to compare to "Yojimbo" and other masterworks of the form.
Sadao Marukido
Inspired by the true story of a Geisha murdered in a city famous for its baths, Adachi forged here his favorite style, a kind of conceptual documentary recounting the incident in monotone. The same event that at the beginning of Violated Angels escaped every principle of causality, is portrayed here as a singular anti-spectacle.
Shirō raids the office of the organization that attacked his lover, wreaking havoc and escaping with a stolen handgun. In retaliation, the organization hires two killers to get rid of Shirō. The duo begin to develop a strange kinship with their target...
Pinku from 1968
Young slacker couple accidentially kills a friend. They burn his body and hang out on a beach.
Doctor
Un detective es contratado para encontrar a una mujer que, dicen, fue asesinada en el rodaje de una película snuff. Tras recorrer el mundo del hampa en una monocromática y surreal Tokio, la encuentra viva e inician un tórrido romance que lo llevará a cuestionarse su propia percepción de la realidad.
A man leaves his family in Tokyo to travel and engage in various sexual escapades. When he returns home he finds out that his wife is starring in Imamura’s documentary about her search for her missing husband.
A detective investigating a serial rapist discovers that he and the perpetrator come from the same lineage of depraved individuals, a genealogy of violent and sexually perverse deviants that stretches through the Meiji, Taisho and Showa eras and can even be traced back to the Edo era.
Saburō Kyōtani
The insane gynecologist, Dr. Marukido Sadao (Marquis de Sade), theorizes that a woman is unable to become pregnant if she is writhing in intense pain during intercourse. He sets about testing this new method of birth control by torturing women during sex.
Yamanouchi
A hitman focuses on his job hoping to retire quickly and richly. But the betrayal of his clan and those he loves endangers his plan.
A press photographer returns to Japan from the war in Vietnam after losing his friend and fellow photographer on the battlefield.
Marukido
Un hombre mantiene atada a su novia adolescente en un apartamento para torturarla sin piedad. Ella está desnuda, atada por toda una serie de cuerdas, mientras su secuestrador le lava el pelo, la maquilla y proyecta en ella sus miedos. Mientras, la mujer planea escapar y llevar a cabo su venganza.
