Lost in Translation

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.

Zatoichi

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 by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.

The Hidden Fortress

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.

Memoirs of a Geisha

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Shikiyoku emaki: Sennen no kyôren

Professor Himeda, who teaches folklore at the university, has launched a youkai circle. At the end of the Edo period, a demon woman who fell in love with a kappa and a zashikiwarashi tried to trick the villagers into breaking up their relationship, but the kappa, with the help of a high-ranking priest, sealed the demon in a mound. Himeda wanted to find the "mound". By chance, he hears that member Asano is from the birthplace of yokai legends and that her family runs a guest house, so Himeda heads to a research camp with other members Satomi (Riri Kuribayashi) and Shibata. However, Shibata is shocked when she learns that Satomi, who had been in love with her, is actually having an affair with Himeda. On the other hand, Asano, who has returned to his parents' house ahead of others, waits for the arrival of the party with Mr. and Mrs. Nagata, who run a guest house, and his daughter Aya (Ito Kurenai).

Temptation Prostitute of Sora and Shidod

On the edge of a small ocean town, there stands a small establishment called “Do-re-mi”. Three prostitutes, Sora, Shido, and Rei work here. They live together with the owner of the place, Kaname Toki in an at-home environment. Lately, Kaname’s kohai, Fuwa has been coming by frequently. Seeing Fuwa, who has lost his ability to get hard, Kaname’s father Minami invites him to the establishment to try to stimulate him. His partner is Shido, who has had an interest in Fuwa, however, Fuwa’s expression remains stiff. The reason for this is that the mayor of the town is leading a redevelopment movement, and Kaname’s establishment is in an area that needs to be evicted. Fuwa has been in charge of the eviction and is thus troubled. Shido finds out about his situation and the shop’s upcoming fate. Meanwhile, Kaname proposes to Sora and she begins to have feelings for him. Both parties are at a crossroads…. what will they choose?

Off-Season Flowering

Debut film from manga artist Seiichi Hayashi. A boy and a girl from the same hometown reunite in the big city and sleep together one night. But, the girl reveals the following day that she is engaged to someone else...

Inbō no yoru: Kurikaesu masayume

Mizuki, born as conjoined twins, works at a hospital, but the director, Sato, takes advantage of her weakness, as she needs artificial dialysis, and makes Mizuki his mistress. However, Sato's wife, Mikayo, discovers his infidelity.

Hawaiian Love: Dangerous Honeymoon

Silent Suffer

Yuriko (Kotomi Asakura), who lost her only young daughter and divorced, became a dumb woman due to the shock. She then started a part-time job at a small lunch box shop in a provincial city where she had drifted. The owner, Sato, had a wife, Kazuko (Firefly), and a daughter, Kyoko (Rina Hatsume). It was a dumb relationship. There was a man in the store who had a dark shadow who came to buy two lunch boxes every day. Yuriko, who cares about the man, follows him, and she finds out that the man is making a woman named Maki (Kyouko Maki) prostitute in a truck parked in the open space she arrived at ...

Yokubô ni kurutta aijû-tachi

Kyoko, who graduated from high school without attending high school, works at a brothel in order to support her lover who wants to be a novelist. But suddenly her novelist lover hangs her, and Kyoko loses her meaning of work and life. Kyoko, who was sick in her heart, believed in a man who had been seduced for three years, saying, "I will change your world," and she got married. Although the man, Ukai, lives in a mansion, he has a crazy tendency to get sexually aroused by treating her wife and maids like livestock. Kyoko kills her cormorant by beating her with a glass ashtray and flees. The destination is a memory room with Haruki. There lived a close brother and sister, Keisuke and Erica. She was Kyoko who was in contact with two very kind people who lived close to each other in a room that was treated as an accident property and became cheaper, but soon Kyoko learned that they were committing a crime to revolutionize. It was.

Breakthrough for Change

Akira, Takeshi, Yasu, and Shun are a gang of four close friends, all of whom were core members of their high-school ekiden team. Although they were stars back in those days, having slacked up their efforts subsequently, their daily life is lackluster now that the age of forty is just around the corner. They talk at a favorite local tavern just like they used to after Akira comes home giving up his dream to become an actor. Thinking back, they have never accomplished anything but ekiden, and they have unknowingly acquired a tendency to run away from problems in life in general. The phrase they cannot help muttering to themselves is how brilliant they were in those days… Feeling dispirited, they think of participating in the Shimanto Dragon Ride. A challenge for the four men in their late thirties begins…

Tora! Tora! Tora!

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.

The Way of Drama

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical styles like those used by amateur actors to dramatise contemporary events.

Groper Train: Start at the Back

A writer fantasies about his sister Masaki, an aspiring actress, and writes a screenplay about it. After several rides on the train to acting class, she reads the script.

The Karate Kid Part II

Summoned by his dying father, Miyagi returns to his homeland of Okinawa, with Daniel, after a 40-year exile. There he must confront Yukie, the love of his youth, and Sato, his former best friend turned vengeful rival. Sato is bent on a fight to the death, even if it means the destruction of their village. Daniel finds his own love in Yukia's niece, Kumiko, and his own enemy in Sato's nephew, the vicious Chozen. Now, far away from the tournaments, cheering crowds and safety of home, Daniel will face his greatest challenge ever when the cost of honor is life itself.

Yummy in Neon Town: I Am Ready to Be Eaten

Inside the club there is the happy beat of music, free flowing beer and generous tips from drunk horny patrons. But for four bar girls the harsh realities of life wait just outside the front entrance.

Rashomon

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

The Last Samurai

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.

Career Girl: Kyusho-zeme

A woman runs a successful boutique and lives a work-centered life. She is called a career girl by those around her. She also has a sweet lover. He even proposed to her. But she doesn't want to live that way. She actually had an abominable trauma in her past. She had her mind and body toyed with by a sweaty manual laborer with no trace of education, and even though it was a past she wanted to erase, she still felt physically attracted to that man...