Hanatani Village in the valley of Tokushima Prefecture is going to be submerged when a dam is constructed. In order to preserve the beauty of the place for future generations,…

A former sumo wrestler, now working as a security guard, goes on a murderous rampage.

Three male gangsters are forced by their boss into becoming a trio of female pop singers.

Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes increasingly isolated at school and drifts…

Things are hectic in heaven. Dozens of scribes sit before a long scroll incessantly scribbling away. They are composing the biographies of earth-dwellers. What is invented by the men in…

Yûji and Kosaku are hired to track down an old man. But when he suddenly dies, his granddaughter surfaces with a map to his buried fortune, which the yakuza and…

The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.

Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family…

A down-and-out schoolteacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old television superhero, Zebraman.

A would-be bank robber forgets his mask on his first big heist, and then botches an attempt to shoplift a replacement mask from a nearby convenience store. The store’s clerk,…

Mikio is a married man and works hard for the company where he is employed. Then one day Mikio is diagnosed with depression. Mikio’s wife is Haruko. They have been…

A man tries to mend his past by helping his best friend’s sister.

Sho Aikawa plays a police detective whose dark personal history makes it impossible for him to stay within the limits of the legal system. But he is not just a…

Akako, a shape-shifting goldfish in the form of a coquettish nymphet clad in diaphanous red dresses, naively plays the role of erotic muse and adoring pet for an aging writer…

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting…

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of…

Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war, supposedly…

A simple funeral turns a man’s world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what happened a…

Rina is the it girl. She is thin, has long hair, is flaunting and dresses attractively. Every man wants to be with her and every woman wants to be like…

Having lost everything to horse racing, Yûji accidentally gets 10 million yen. But this sum belongs to a Yakuza.

Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and visit the small island…

Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from…

Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to bring it down.

When a number of suicide victims slash themselves in their sleep, detective Keiko Kirishima is called to investigate.

While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.

A tragedy strikes a young woman’s life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.

Hapless gangsters are hired by the yakuza to tail his daughter. Once the identity of the boy she’s dating has been unveiled, the boss offers a reward for his capture.

The film tells a story about a woman and her relationship with the family of her husband’s, in particular her husband’s younger brother and father-in-law. Her husband, on the other…

An aspiring hair dresser becomes the infatuation of a tricophilic man who sells hair extensions to nearby hair salons. The source of the hair is the corpse of a girl…

A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action. Leaving his job…

Five years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a noted fixer. When tensions rise…

When three older men buy a 17-year-old schoolgirl named Chikako for a year’s-worth of sexual services — her motivation, aside from money, is never explained — the relationships among the…

A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.

Sawaki is a postman who’s not quite thrilled about his boring way of life. But his life is about to change when he delivers mail to his old schoolmate Noguchi,…

On April 5, 2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The bride, however, was suffering from late-stage breast cancer and had been…

A duo get mixed up with a girl who finds a trunk load full of heroin.

A wealthy college girl is snatched off the streets by a pair of S&M professionals. They methodically break her will with the extensive use of bondage and erotic devices. But…

A school teacher suggests to his class that they ought to raise a pig together and eat it when it grows up.

Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an…

After killing the man he believes murdered his daughter, a white-collar worker returns to his mundane life, until he is approached by a man who offers him a mysterious job…

Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a brother and sister who want to drive a local yakuza gang member out of their neighborhood.

Reiji Kikukawa, who has a strong sense of justice, graduated from the police academy with the lowest score ever. He becomes a police constable, but is suddenly fired by the…