Genjiro Arato

The story of a young man who has felt since childhood utterly alien from others around him. Since that time he has learned to put on a face to hide his alienation. He feels incapable of belonging to the human society, especially so by society's refusal to take him seriously. He then follows a descent into alcohol, drugs, & suicide ...

A story about a hitman named Hayamada who carries a distinctive red gun. As the film progresses we discover the reason for his work, and how he came to be alone. His aim right now is to reach a desitination, but he’s late.

A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange characters. He finds a job skewering meat in a dirty old room in a shabby old house filled with prostitutes, gangsters and a weird old tattoo master. He clearly doesn't fit in to this new world, and the inhabitants of it immediately despise him.

A teenage girl gains supernatural power after an accident and comes to understand her place in the universe.

14 year old Nakamura is sexually abused by her stepfather. She invents a friend who is coming to her rescue when she really needs it.

Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts, his publisher shows him a newspaper with an account of events just like his forbidden story. As the film progresses, fantasy and reality intermingle in a tale that draws heavily on influences from Poe and Stoker's Dracula. The film's strongly Expressionistic direction skillfully combines a variety of media (animation, computer-generated imagery, grainy black-and-white fast film stock, color negatives) for artistic effect.

A low-key private detective agency in Paris is run by Rie and her lover and partner Kishin, two ex-pats who tick along between cases by giving guided tours of the city to busloads of Japanese tourists. After the wealthy Okuyama hires them to trail his French mistress Lorraine whom he believes to be having an affair, feeble-willed Kishin finds himself seduced by this femme fatale and way out of his depth in a seamy underworld of rich Japanese businessmen, S&M games and huge piles of money.

Melodrama about a woman refusing surgery.

A vida ficcionalizada do pintor e poeta Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934). Yumeji está em Kanazawa, esperando a chegada de sua amante Hikono, quando se depara com a bela viúva Tomoyo, que perambula pelas cercanias de um lago procurando o corpo de seu marido Wakiya, supostamente assassinado por um bandido. O pintor fica impressionado com Tomoyo e ajuda a viúva em sua busca. Em seguida, eles se tornam amantes. A trama fica mais complexa quando aparecem Matsu, o suposto bandido assassino, e a modelo Oyo, também amante de Yumeji. Até que o próprio Wakiya reaparece, sem que saibamos tratar-se de um fantasma ou de uma presença real. Último volume da “trilogia Taisho,” o filme intensifica os procedimentos oníricos e alucinatórios dos filmes anteriores, chamando mais a atenção para os elementos simbólicos e as atmosferas do que para a trama.

A directionless young man, recently released from prison, tries to make a new start in life as a boxer...

A Japanese boxer stages a dramatic and dangerous comeback after suffering brain damage in the ring.

In the far-off future of 2001, a young boy from outer space lands on earth inside a flying peach. The boy (named Apple) is adopted by a Catholic priest, but soon disappears. Three schoolgirls decide to search for him, and soon find evidence that he is being held captive in a trendy dance club. What is the club owner doing with him, and will his adopted father ever see him again?

Hiroshi Kobayashi is on the run from police who would arrest him for the murder of his girlfriend Naomi. At the same time, he wants revenge on the yakuza member Kimura who got her stuck in drugs. The entire film consists of a long hunting-scene.

Tóquio, 1926. Shunko Matsuzaki é um dramaturgo de teatro shinpa (moderno), e tem como mecenas o poderoso Tamawaki. Um dia, ele se depara com a bela Shinako numa ponte. Ela pede que Matsuzaki a acompanhe até o hospital para fazer uma visita a uma mulher moribunda. Ela deseja sua companhia pois tem medo de encontrar uma senhora vendedora de fisális, fruta que supostamente contém as almas das mulheres. Matsuzaki recusa, mas Shinako retorna em outras aparições, e torna-se sua amante. Em seguida, ela desaparece. Tempos depois, Matsuzaki descobre que Shinako pode ser o fantasma de uma antiga esposa de Tamawaki. Depois de receber uma carta de Shinako, Matsuzaki viaja para Kanazawa a fim de encontrá-la. No trem, ele encontra Tamawaki, que diz que está viajando para presenciar um suicídio por amor. Segundo filme da “trilogia Taisho,” que segue o mesmo estilo alucinatório do primeiro.

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.

Aochi, um professor universitário de alemão, encontra com seu antigo colega Nakasago quando viaja de férias para um vilarejo à beira-mar. Nakasago vive como nômade e é perseguido por um grupo local, acusado de ter seduzido e assassinado a mulher de um pescador. Depois que Aochi resolve a situação do amigo com a polícia, os dois jantam e conversam sobre a vida, acompanhados pela gueixa Koine. Seis meses depois, Aochi volta para visitar o amigo e descobre que ele está casado com Sono, uma mulher incrivelmente parecida com Koine. Repentinamente, Nakasago foge com Koine, abandonando Sono, que está grávida. Mas tudo pode ser sonho, delírio ou realidade. Acompanhando a trama, a peça musical “Zigeunerweisen” (1878), de Pablo de Sarasate, toca com insistência. Primeiro filme da “trilogia de Taisho,” que faz referência ao Japão dos anos 1910-1920, foi vencedor de quatro prêmios da Academia Japonesa em 1981, incluindo os de Melhor Filme e Melhor Diretor.

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.

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.

Scantily clad female warriors battle thieves to save a small village. Director Yasuharu Hasebe crossed the Seven Samurai legends of Shichinin No Samurai with his own popular Naraneko Rokku series and dressed it up with some of the most popular softcore pinup queens of the day.