Toshiyuki Kitami

A detective in Toyama is forced to confront his painful past when he takes on a murder case involving his two estranged childhood friends.

Satoshi Murayama, the shogi (Japanese chess) master known as the arch-rival of Yoshiharu Habu, the shogi genius of the century, died of an ...

Kotoji Akame (Naoto Takenaka) is a shabby, middle aged low-ranking samurai of small stature. One day, in a drinking contest, he misses sending ...

In 2011, top-secret data on nuclear power is stolen from a university facility. At the same time, leaked information comes in about enriched ...

War photojournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children. Because of Yasayuki’s drinking problems ...

A hit man looks to protect the daughter of one of his victims against CIA assassins.

A story of the unexplainable things that inflict sheer terror on human beings and how they leave victims psychologically devastated.

In a small town of Hokkaido, Yunni, Fusako Kurokawa (Saki Takaoka), lives a quiet life with her father. Life here is very simple, but it is good ...

Set in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture in 1954, movie tells the tale of 14 year old boys: their friendships, fights among friends, and rebellions ...

Haruna is a lively tomboy in the 5th year at elementary school. One day, while playing with Hiroyuki, a boy whom she has known for a long time, ...

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing ...

A middle school teacher, Jinno, is friends with a young couple that is about to have a baby. But on the eve of the birth, the father, Kimura, ...

A blind woman acquires a guide dog, and faces prejudice in 1980s Japan.

Shin is a professional voyeur who provides live camera feeds of everything from the street corner to the public toilet. He is also afflicted ...

A war rages on, its end unknown, covering the world in despair. At a military field hospital, a group of soldiers bring in one of their own, ...

After finally passing his teacher’s exam, Miwa (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) devoted himself to teaching in a rustic primary school. He struggles to ...

With the help of the real-life pachislot gambling group “Capone,” the film depicts the friendship between a man who gambles and a man ...

Fourth installment in Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 8 films.

Set in the Philippines, Takashi Miike’s “The Guys from Paradise” weaves together the stories of several real-life criminal cases. Young ...

Emotionally withdrawn strip club dancer Ayako has never recovered from her mother’s suicide when she was young. She begins a relationship ...

Kintaro is a reformed delinquent, the former leader of a biker gang who has gone straight. Working at a construction company, his unorthodox ...

1997 V-Cinema film.

Heat After Dark is director Ryuhei Kitamura’s first theatrical release. This 50 minute film is predominantly a character study within an ...

Etsuko, the wife of the conglomerate Okazaki family, has come to Karuizawa to escape the summer heat. Her love for her husband has cooled down ...

After serving ten years due to a drug-induced assassination of a rival gang boss, Tachibana enters a world that’s nothing like it was when ...

The members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their hometown, they move from Shikoku to Tokyo and ...

A psychological suspense based on the novel of the same name by Naoki Prize-winning author Tsuyoshi Osaka. Psychiatrist Aiko Minamikawa was asked ...

Matsuzaki is a racing tipster for a sports paper, a lowlife who spends half his time drunk, hangs out with yakuza and other riff-raff, and ...