Released Date:
2002-07-25
Languages:
Japanese, Cantonese, English
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
129 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (40329 Reviews)
Director:
Takashi MiikeHideo Yamamoto (comic)
Sakichi Satè (screenplay)
When a Yakuza boss named Anjo disappears with 300 million yen, his chief henchman, a sadomasochistic man named Kakihara, and the rest of his mob goons go looking for him. After capturing and torturing a rival Yakuza member looking for answers, they soon realize they have the wrong man and begin looking for the man named Jijii who tipped them off in the first place. Soon enough Kakihara and his men encounter Ichi, a psychotic, sexually-repressed young man with amazing martial arts abilities and blades that come out of his shoes. One by one Ichi takes out members of the Yakuza and all the while Kakihara intensifies his pursuit of Ichi and Ichi's controller Jijii. What will happen as the final showdown happens between the tortured and ultra-violent Ichi and the pain-craving Kakihara?
Released Date:
2005-03-04
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
95 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (725 Reviews)
Director:
Ryuichi HirokiGenres:
DramaMari Akasaka (novel)
Haruhiko Arai (screenplay)
(Japanese with English subtitles) After meeting a handsome truck driver (Nao Omori) in the midst of an urban mini-mart, a 30-something freelance writer (Shinobu Terajima) embarks on a life-changing emotional journey of sexual self-discovery. Ryuichi Hiroki (I Am an S&M Writer, Tokyo Trash Baby) directs this critically acclaimed road movie based on the novel by Mari Akasaka.
Released Date:
2007-03-24
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
131 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (809 Reviews)
Director:
Katsuhiro ètomoGenres:
FantasyYuki Urushibara (comic)
Sadayuki Murai (screenplay)
Katsuhiro ètomo (screenplay)
Ginko, a Mushi-shi has always been attuned to the Mushi, creatures close to life itself and able to affect and alter their surroundings. He cannot stay in one place for too long so he wanders, helping the inhabitants of rural Japan understand the Mushi around them and how to coexist peacefully.
Released Date:
2008-08-16
Languages:
Japanese, French, English
Countries:
France, Japan, South Korea, Germany
Runtime:
112 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (6738 Reviews)
Gabrielle Bell (graphic novel "Cecil and Jordan in New York")
Joon-ho Bong
Leos Carax
Michel Gondry
Tokyo is a city of transitions in three short films. A young woman who finds her life useless experiences a metamorphosis. A disheveled Caucasian emerges from a manhole to face arrest, trial, and execution; he calls himself "Merde" and speaks a language only his look-alike attorney understands. Is he human? A recluse experiences human contact when a pizza-delivery girl faints at his door during an earthquake. He conquers fear to seek her out. A chair, a corpse, a hermit: sources of urban connection?
Released Date:
2011-08-17
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan, Netherlands
Runtime:
83 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.5 (382 Reviews)
Director:
Takashi ShimizuGenres:
HorrorSètarè Hayashi (screenplay)
Daisuke Hosaka (screenplay)
Takashi Shimizu (screenplay)
Daigo doesn't speak anymore. His sister, Kiriko, is worried and their father is no help. Now Daigo is missing. He's in danger, and Kiriko will have to follow him into a world of nightmares to discover the truth.
Released Date:
2014-11-15
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
117 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (945 Reviews)
Director:
Takashi MiikeMuneyuki Kaneshiro (manga)
Akeji Fujimura (manga)
Hiroyuki Yatsu (screenplay)
A group of high school students are forced to play a game of death without knowing who, why or how.
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