Tadanobu Asano

A young man awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook full of drawings of dissections, Hiroshi is ...

Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one another eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.

In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist ...

The title is “Thirsty Flower ~ four by four equal one ~”, which is a short story of about 60 minutes with four women as the main ...

Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of ...

A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film ...

Anthology film directed by Tadanobu Asano.

Soul Dancing is an order placed to Kiyoshi Kurosawa by a Japanese alcoholic beverage brand named Shôchu. The director then uses this ...

Documentary about the Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike, where we see him attend film festivals, personal influences and of course the study of ...

Three short films with the theme of death and dead ends in common.

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart ...

An obsessive-compulsive Japanese librarian living in Bangkok spends most of his days contemplating suicide in his apartment. His life changes ...

Kenzo was behind bars for killing a gangster. Upon his release, he goes to live with his son, whose marriage is on the rocks. His 14-year-old ...

Initially, Ambivalent Future was intended as a film about the production of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “Bright Future”. But director ...

Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They become fascinated with a deadly jellyfish.

If you loved movies such as Shonen Merikensack and GS Wonderland, then this one, which predates the former, will impress you as well. The story ...

Ryo personifies water, since whenever something important happens in her life, it rains. She inherits a bathhouse and meets a pyromaniac named ...

As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able ...

Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism. His faith in pacifism, however, is shaken ...

On the third anniversary of a cult’s failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suicide, family members of those affected ...

A violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard half-merged with a metallic Buddha.

A government employee meets a hostess of a “pink club,” and together they set out on a journey.

This one-off TV special follows the exploits of camp comic Graham Norton on a visit to Tokyo. Staying with a Japanese family, he explores the ...

Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who’s stolen a suitcase of ...

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 ...

A biographical film of war photographer, Taizo Ichinose.

In a future where World War II never ended, Japan is decimated by nightly bombings. The only building left standing is known as the Media ...

A Japanese man and a gay bar-owner in Hong Kong drink beer as they talk about their childhood and experiences.

In dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexually warped Uncle Sonezaki. Fortunately, she met Samehada as she runs ...

Two shorts about the making of Hideaki Anno’s movie “Love & Pop”, one from the perspective of a bumbling assistant, and one ...