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The Crucified Lovers

  In 17th-century Japan, Ishun (Eitaro Shindo) flourishes in business but remains stingy and cruel, often mistreating his wife, Osan (Kyoko Kagawa). When her bumbling brother desperately needs money, Osan Read More

Beautiful Hunter

  Shion is the most merciless assassin of the Magnificat crime group. But when she hesitates to murder the man she loves, her superior marks her for death, and she Read More

Cruel Story of Youth

  In 1960 Japan, restless university student Kyoshi (Yusuke Kawazu) seduces pretty teenager Makoto (Miyuki Kuwanu) and quickly convinces her to take part in a dark, cruel scheme, both to Read More

Bayside Shakedown

  Aoshima, a police detective working in the Bayside Precinct, is continually frustrated by the hierarchy and red tape that plague the system. His friend Muroi is climbing the ladder Read More

Early Summer

  Noriko lives in postwar Tokyo with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her friends, her more traditionally minded family worries about the fact that she’s still Read More

The Ballad of Narayama

  Imagine a village so impoverished that thieves are buried alive, and elderly citizens must submit to death on a cold mountain peak.  This is the brutal life portrayed in Read More

An Autumn Afternoon

  In the wake of his wife’s death, aging Shuhei Hirayama (Chishu Ryu) struggles to maintain balanced relationships with his three children. He tends to spoil his eldest, the happily Read More

Akira

  In the 21st Century, 30 years after a devastating global nuclear war, mankind is once again on the brink of total annihilation.  In a world populated by rival motorcycle Read More

Always: Sunset on Third Street

  In 1958, with the impending completion of Tokyo’s TV broadcasting tower as a symbol of Japan’s escalating post-war economic recovery, rural schoolgirl Mutsuko (Maki Horikita) arrives from the provinces Read More

Sonatine

  Murakawa, a Tokyo-based yakuza enforcer, has grown tired of gangster life. He is sent by his boss to Okinawa, supposedly to mediate a dispute between their allies, the Nakamatsu Read More