The Weavers of Nishijin

The Weavers of Nishijin captures the process of traditional textile manufacture in Nishijin.

Kuroneko

In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of

The Face of Another

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his new doctor, but the mask start

Rikyu

Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force

Violence at Noon

Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering

Strong Women, Weak Men

After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto

Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution

Nagisa Oshima's documentary details the rise of Chairman Mao during the revolution and shows the Com

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster becom

Human

The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people

Pitfall

A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit o

Evil Spirits of Japan

Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. W

Edo Porn

The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives w

A Last Note

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters w

Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchante

The Iron Crown

A woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the couple

The Key

A college professor wants to bring the joys of sex to his frigid wife. He convinces his son in law t

Rebellion of Japan

Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisal

Libido

aka Libido.

Demons

Tells the story of the samurai Gengobe, who seeks revenge after falling prey to the schemes of a gei

The Strangling

The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that

Bôkenshatachi

A group of young men go treasure hunting in the sea.

House of Sleeping Beauties

About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and h

The Life of Chikuzan

After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s, the rough-hewn blind shami

Summer Soldiers

During the Vietnam War, an American G.I. deserts his base in Japan and escapes to Tokyo with the hel

Lost Sex

A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has

Strange Affinity

The Wangan Highway

Based on the novel of the same name by Yoshio Kataoka.

Will to Live

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution

Band of Ninja

The son of an assassinated feudal lord, in the Muromachi period, attempts to avenge his father's dea

Egg Delivery Man : Attack on Keishicho

You-chan is a young man who delivers eggs from Tochigi Prefecture to Tokyo's city center, and he is

Discovery of Image – The Era of Toshio Matsumoto

A five-part documentary chronicling Toshio Matsumoto, the legendary filmmaker known as a pioneer of

Heat Wave Island

Nobuko Otowa plays a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to