Ken Ogata

Young women disappear one after another in drizzling rain. They all hear the “cursed song” of the Cage Song before they vanish into thin air. ...

A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband’s honor.

Gabai Granny is based on the bestseller Saga No Gabai Baachan (Gabai Granny from Saga), which is penned by comedian Shimada Yoshichi as he ...

A lonely retired girl’s High School Principal who’s lost his wife to alcoholism moves to an old apartment in a country town. There he ...

A celebration of the ancient art of Japanese rakugo, roughly translated as “comic storytelling”. The film is interspersed with numerous funerals ...

A young samurai stuck at the bottom of the hierarchical order attempts to rescue his childhood sweetheart from an evil clan lord after learning ...

Tsutomu Minagawa is set to retire; the organized business life, a perfectly normal family living in a two-story house with a garage, the once ...

A young-at-heart widower leads an independent life in a quiet fishing town in northern Japan. He eases his loneliness by walking in the snow and ...

The movie is absurd, and a thoroughly original take on the morale in Japanese society. The images are beautiful, and the people are as cold as ...

A tremor struck the Information Industry Bureau of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. The prosecution arrested a local contractor ...

Five women snatch one billion yen in jewellery from the yakuza, while construction manager Toyama burns for revenge against the mobsters who ...

A special drama starring Masahiro Nakai of SMAP, which was aired on Fuji TV six times from 1996 to 2005. The original is a comic of the same name ...

A political satire comedy depicting the turmoil caused when the residents of a small island in Okinawa, feeling neglected by the Japanese ...

A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.

A close look at the inner workings of Japan’s political underbelly.

A dramatization of veteran actor Ryo Ikebe’s essay of the same name about his parents’ eccentric marriage.

A former stockbroker-turned-yakuza must make sure his alcoholic boss is up to the task of swearing in the next leader of their syndicate.

Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great ...

A hospital accidentally gives a man Count Dracula’s blood while trying to save his life. A year later, he’s back from the dead, ...

A successful office lady, who has made herself sexually available to a doctor, has her routine disrupted when her former boyfriend’s son ...

A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange ...

A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.

Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he’s caught ...

A shogun’s eldest son must do whatever it takes to survive a series of attempts on his life. He receives much-needed aid from seven ...

Coerced by the evil Witch Raga, Ashura, the Hell Virgin, attempts to unlock the four Earth holes that lead to the Gates of Hell. Together, Raga ...

Set in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan’s Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story about fashionable people without impulse ...

From his early days as Matsudaira Motoyasu through his rise to the most powerful man in Japan as Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first of the Tokugawa ...