Mamoru Sasaki

A series of serial murders occurred in a historic ruins where a TV crew is shooting a documentary.

A biographical dramatization about the production of the original Ultraman, the beloved classic special effects fantasy series from Eiji Tsuburaya.

Comedy film.

The year is 2001 and the criminals have taken over Centinel City. The Police have lost control. The citizens are terrified... and no one can stop the madness. Even the Techno Police, a special anti-crime squad, find the situation hopeless until a wise cracking cop with an uncanny knack for out-guessing the criminals joins the force. When a powerful experiment tank is hijacked, the Techno Police and their newest recruit go to work. Equipped with an ultra-sonic car and crime-fighting Technoids, the rookie cop sets out on a death defying high-speed chase through the streets... trying to capture the crooks and trying to stay alive. But no one is aware of the awesome powers about to be unleashed.

On a future Earth ruled by Emperor Darius, the crew members of the Nautilus Submarine fight bravely to win freedom from oppression.

A member of the jieitai ("Self-Defense Force"; i.e. Japanese military) is on leave and finds a woman giving birth in a graveyard in the former Yoshiwara district. He takes her to an inn to gove birth, and stays on a few days as she recovers, but becomes fascinated with the strange people he meets there, particularly the owner, who visits a house in his courtyard every day to talk and give food to his mother. He says she is very sick and can't leave bed, but no one else has ever been inside or seen her.

「実相寺昭雄監督作品ウルトラマン」は、1979年に実相寺昭雄が監督した日本の特撮怪獣映画である。実相寺監督が制作した初代ウルトラマンのテレビシリーズのシーンを集めた総集編である。

不老不死の身を嘆く八百比丘尼が、老人に尽くし犯罪者の若者に体を預ける…。

An NHK adaptation of the famous manga by Moto Hagio

Huck is kidnapped by his father but manages to fake his own death and escape to Jackson's Island, where he coincidentally meets up with Jim, a slave of the Widow Douglas' sister, Miss Watson. Jim is running for freedom because he has found out that Miss Watson plans to "sell him South" for $800. Together they construct a raft and travel on the Mississippi River, Jim hoping for freedom from slavery, and Huck searching freedom from his drunk father and controlling foster parent.

AKA Serial Killer documents the social upheaval and political oppression that roiled Japan in the 1960s, profiling a nineteen-year-old serial killer Norio Nagayama. An indictment of media sensationalism, the film humanizes the young man by situating his crimes in the larger context of his environment.

Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike

Sunaoko come to Okinawa to find his brother Tsuruo. Her searching is not very painless because it tears up old wounds in complicated relationships, some of which date back to the horrors of war.

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.

A metaphysical mystery involving a university student's camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide. Looking back upon the event, the situation comes to be questioned if it happened at all.

Maruyama, a day laborer, is living on an abandoned ship at the port of Osaka when he meets an elusive man offering a job.

This is the story of a bookstore thief named Birdy, who is led through various adventures in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko.

The sixth "Japan's No. 1 Man" feature. Followed by "Japan’s No. 1 Disconnected Man".

Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action develops into a crime story.

物語は死刑囚・韓国人少年Rの絞死刑が失敗したところから始まる。Rは死刑執行失敗のショックで心神喪失状態に陥ってしまう。その状態では刑の再執行は許されないため、Rの判断能力を取り戻させようと、死刑執行人たちが四苦八苦する姿がブラック・ユーモア風に描かれていく。執行人たちはRの家庭環境や彼の犯罪を芝居で再現して見せる。その混沌とする事実と虚構が、事件の真相や日本国家に内在する矛盾、問題点をあらわにしていく。

男を求めてさまようネジ子は、路上で男と出会い海岸へ行く。しかし男は自殺願望があり、ネジ子を抱こうとはしなかった。そこへ制服姿の男たちが現れ、武器の入った箱を運び出すところを、ネジ子たちは目撃してしまう。二人は男たちに連れ去られ、郊外の廃墟であるアジトに監禁される。アジトにはヤクザの出入りのために雇われた男たちがいたが、出入りは中止になり、ヤクザはいなくなってしまった。

科学特捜隊のハヤタはパトロール中に謎の発光体と衝突、墜落してしまう……。ハヤタとウルトラマンの出会いや、人気怪獣の登場エピソードを再編集した、初の劇場公開作品。「ウルトラマン」入門篇としても楽しめる。

Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking songs. This encounter sets them on a less than academic path.

A young boy joins a band of ninja during a peasant uprising, all depicted through an experimental form of filming pages from the original manga set to sound.