Kei Satō

Kaiji Ito moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with society at large, Kaiji spends his days ...

Rou has returned to the monastery he was raised in. As he listens to the whispering of the Gods through his germanium radio, Rou defies God in ...

Set during Japan’s Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of ...

Short anime adaption of the Osamu Tezuka manga Neo Faust.

A drama about a father and his son centered around the Great Hanshin earthquake.

Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II

The continuing adventures of Matsuzaki, a racing tipster for a sports paper. Matsuzaki befriends a mysterious old track bettor named Tokudaiji. ...

The crescent shaped scar on his forehead is a license given him by the Shogun to kill anyone he deems to be a villain. A strong performance that ...

Bored Hatamoto film

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 ...

Based on the comic book by Kenshi Hirokane

A black comedy about a former Rock’n’Roll singer, who becomes the mayor of Tokyo.

A touching drama about human life and love A 24-hour probation has been given to a man who should have died!

Near the end of Japanese civil war, several disgraced ronin living in Edo’s red light district attempt to regain their honor by defending a ...

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo, leaving few clues as to their ...

The Sagami family has been running an Edo-style woodworking shop in downtown Tokyo for generations. The head of the family, Bunzo (Kunie Tanaka), ...

Mondosuke ventures alone into the land of Nagasaki. There, he encounters young lady named Kinue, the daughter of Nagasaki’s former ...

A thrilling and entertaining piece in which Jirokichi, portrayed by Morio Kazama, tackles a major event involving an attempt to assassinate the ...

Known as the ”Last Samurai” Saigo Takamori was a stout giant of a man with a huge head and a neck like a bear. As the leader of Satsuma’s ...

The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma is a movie about a haunted blood-thirsty Bakufu officer who might have killed Ryoma Sakamoto.

This film describes how the Hopi and Navajo tribes in the southwestern United States have responded to the resource colonization of their lands ...

The Byakkotai was part of Aizu’s four-unit military, set up in the domain’s drive to finalize its military modernization, in the wake of the ...

A man returns to his seaside roots to confront a yakuza boss. Along the way, he charms young men, softens a hard woman and busts a few heads.

On the night of August 19, 1980, a bus was set on fire by the vagrant Hirofumi Maruyama at the Shinjuku West Exit Bus Terminal. In the burning ...

Arrested and interrogated by the police for a murder, Kiyoshi Ōkubo remembers his past and ends up confessing to several murders. Inspired by the ...

One of the major documentaries on a specific chapter in modern Japanese history, this look at the trial of Japanese militarists accused of war ...

Loosely based on a 1926 short story by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, the film opens as an artist and a young woman are in a dentist’s waiting ...