Junji Sakamoto

Two rogue vagrants make their living as “manure men”, turning the waste from the tenement toilets into fertiliser sold to local ...

Jun Wataguchi lives a lazy, half-hearted life, not going to school, hanging out with half-witted delinquents, and begging money from his friends. ...

Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, a dull novelist and a legendary killer. ...

Ko, a man in his late 30s, lives in the countryside with his wife and teenage son. Mitsuhiko, who runs a local car dealership, also stayed in his ...

Freddy Maemura Hurtado, a second-generation Japanese-Bolivian, heads to Cuba to study medicine. He meets revolutionist Che Guevara. When civil ...

Whether it’s someone mixing burnables and recyclables or noise from a neighbor’s domestic spat, there’s always something ...

A professional scammer is hired by a wealthy young businessman to find a hidden treasure looted from the Bank of Japan and supposedly stashed ...

Teacher Kawashima Haru takes a position on a remote island off the coast of Hokkaido, where she takes charge of six students. However, she is ...

The annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However, Yoshi’s life is thrown into disarray days before ...

Former high school teacher Kazuo Hatano (Toru Nakamura) reunites 12 years later with Masako Tezuka (Manami Konishi). Masako Tezuka was his former ...

A blind master swordsman attempts to lead a quiet life with his wife but he is provoked back into battle.

A dream collaboration between five directors who represent the modern Japanese film industry! An omnibus work composed of five short films has ...

A Middle-aged Japanese ex-pat journalist investigates child organ trafficking in Thailand and he uncovers a sinister network. In the darkest ...

Keiko who leads a lonely life as a fortune teller on the streets meets Goro, a leader of the con-artists. One day, Goro witnesses a group of men ...

After the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy marriage seem to suddenly vanish as she finds out ...

The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to a platoon from the Fleet Training Group. No ...

Five young musicians, each harboring painful memories, are assembled to entertain American soldiers at an Enlisted Men’s Club. Tensions ...

A young Japanese boy’s life is changed when his sister returns to the small island, full of eccentric characters, where he lives.

This movie is a political/espionage thriller, based on a real kidnapping incident of Korean politician, Kim Dae-Jung.

Former childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu cross paths again. Kaneo is now a yakuza member, while Masatatsu is a nightclub owner ...

Awkward and withdrawn, Masako kills her sister in an explosion of pent-up humiliation and rage that sends her tumbling into fugitive life.

Hisashi gets fired from his temp job due to his impulsiveness. One day he meets Chikako, a housewife who constantly shoplifts at the supermarket ...

An odd journey starts as Mitsuru, a private detective, and a boy, whom a dying mobster entrusts to him, decide to go to northern Japan in search ...

The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. It’s a small god with a pointed head, a ...

A docudrama about the boxer Jôichirô Tatsuyoshi. The documentary part follows Tatsuyohi for 18 months, from his comeback from an eye injury to ...

A school bus driver’s life is irrevocably altered when his young son is kidnapped and murdered.

Set in Osaka’s Shinsekai, the film depicts the lives of Ayumu Tobita (Hidekazu Akai), who makes a living as a shogi gambler (shinken-shi), ...

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.

The story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very different men – one the happy-go-lucky yakuza ...