A murder investigation reveals a deep-rooted sibling rivalry in director Miwa Nishikawa's brooding family drama. On the one-year anniversary of his mother's death, Tokyo art and fashion photographer Takeru (Joe Odagiri) returns to his small hometown...

Synopsis: One of maverick Japanese director Kinji Fukasakus ( Battle Royale , Cops vs. Thugs ) darkest thug-operas ( Village Voice ), Yakuza Graveyard is a gritty, brutally violent action film, a mature, poetic achievement in personal filmmaking,...

The stunning Junko Miyazono stars in the first entry of the Legends Of The Poisonous Seductress series, "Female Demon Ohyaku", as a quiet actress wrongly sent to prison and pushed by her tor mentors to the point of no return. With a demon tattoo...

Following the phenomenal success of Ringu and Ringu 2 -- films about a malevolent spirit named Sadako residing in a videotape that kills all who watch it -- Norio Tsuruta directs and Masato Hara produces this prequel to the two horror blockbusters. ...

"JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI is the story of 85 year-old Jiro Ono, considered by many to be the world’s greatest sushi chef. He is the proprietor of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a 10-seat, sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station. ...

A timeless tale of honor and revenge, The Loyal 47 Ronin tells the true story of a loyal group of samurai who plot revenge for their fallen master, all the while knowing that they will die after accomplish ing their goal. The tragic cycle is set into...

Adapted from a novel by Shichiro Fukazawa, The Ballad of Nara yama is built around an ancient Japanese custom. Centuries ago, it was customary for the younger citizens of a remote Japanese mountain village to shepherd all those over the age of...

Genre icon Jo Shishido stars in this tense and violent yakuza yarn i's former assistant, Yasuharu Hasebe (Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song). Brand new interview with star Jo Shishido; Brand new interview with renowned critic and historian...

Japanese Horror Stories [DVD] [Japanese] [2014]

Based on King's Ransom, an "87th Precinct" novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), High and Low stars Toshiro Mifune as Gondo, a wealthy industrialist. Gondo is contacted by a gang of kidnap pers, who inform him that they've kidnapped his son. The...

Nami (Meiko Kaji) is back, and this time the Ginza Butterfly is on a mission to kill the man who murdered her father when she was just a young girl. Hoshiden robbed Nami of the only father she ever knew, and for that crime he must die. Upon arriving...

From Takashi Miike, the prolific director of such shocking hits including "Audition" and "Ichi The Killer" comes "The Sound Of Music meets Dawn Of The Dead"! The Katakuris are a family trying to run a peaceful country inn but with a lack of guests...

"Raizo ICHIKAWA stars as an honest man who joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, Isami KONDO (Tomisaburo WAKAYAMA), and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. But as his involvement grows, reality and idealism come into...

Witness the harrowing end to the ultimate bloodbath. Alu card awakens and his thirst for vengeance is stronger than ever. This anarchist must use everything in his mythical repertoire to show that his bite is far worse than an army of snarling Nazi...

Who would have thought a simple ring could cause so much trouble? Marin and Urin are sea folk, people who live in a peaceful underwater world surrounded by bright fish and colorful coral. But one day, a beautiful ring falls from the "sky" - that...

Climb aboard the impressive vessels of Japan's modern naval fleet during this fascinating journey to uncover the history of "Kai gun: The Imperial Japanese Navy". In this feature-length documentary, trace the heritage of the Imperial Japanese Navy...

A ninja suf fers from amnesia and wakes amid dead bodies + DVD Year: 2017 Studio: Fun imation Genre: Action MPAA Rating: Not Rated Color: Color Runtime: 96 Animated: Animated Full Synopsis: Tao, a ninja from the Iga clan, wakes up in a cave...

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Synopsis: Japanese culture-especially the popular music scene-can be surprising, often disorienting crazy quilt of austere, ancient traditions, futuristic experimental music and crass, glitzy pop. Sukiyaki and Chips is a giddy kaleidoscope of the...

"Following their victory over the DESTRONS (aka Decepticons) at the end of Head masters, the CYBERTRONS (aka Autobots) depart Earth, leaving behind only a small group to protect the planet from any future menace. But when the powerful DESTRONS return...

No longer the meek young man who strggled with his hunger, Kaneki goes through a ravenous feeding frenzy, even devouring other ghouls to collect their power. Audio Commentaries; Video Commentary; Promotional Videos; Text less Opening Song; U.S. Lan...

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After bringing the story of the American soldiers who fought in the battle of Iwo Jima to the screen in his film Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood offers an equally thoughtful portrait of the Japanese forces who held the island for 36 days in this...

Yuichi Sato's Japanese horror film Pray opens with two down-and-outers, the conniving Mitsuru (Tetsuji Tama yama) and ruthless Maki (Asami Mizukawa), who -- desperate for money -- abduct a young girl and hole up in a defunct schoolhouse until her...

Sion Sono (Suicide Club, Cold Fish), adapts Minoru Furuya's popular manga to tell the confrontational tale of a troubled adolescent boy whose dreams of an ordinary life are slowly eroded in the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. ...

Two longtime friends are forced to clash swords while fighting for opposing clans in director Kazuo Mori's thrilling take on the tale of the 47 Ronin. Nakayama Yasubei (Shinataro Katsu) was preparing for the duel that would define his life when he...

An investigator on the trail of a serial killer uncovers a shocking supernatural secret when his young protégé falls for a...

A bright but unpopular high school student whose parents favor her younger sister places a curse on her sibling before dying of cancer. Later, the curse spreads to the deceased girl's class mates, sparking a wave of panic among the terrified...

Exploring many of the same themes of Robert Altman's MASH (1970), (albeit with completely distinct overtones), Akai Ten shi is a brutal portrayal of individuals clinging to their humanity while enduring the horrors of war. Set in 1939, the film...

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Director Hitoshi Matsumoto weaves this darkly comic mockumentary about a Japanese giant who continues the long-standing family tradition of facing off against Tokyo's most formidable monsters. Constantly caught in the middle of everyone's battles,...

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TRANSFORMERS: THE JAPANESE COLLECTION Fans and collectors can finally bring home TRANSFORMERS: THE JAPANESE COLLECTION DVD box set from Shout! Factory, in collaboration with Hasbro. This is the rare Japanese trilogy that followed the popular...

Japanese body horror auteur Shinya Tsukamoto, still best known in the U.S. for Tetsuo, teams with hipster icon Tadanobu Asano for the psychological drama Vital. Asano plays Hiroshi Takagi, who wakes from a coma, his memory seriously impaired, and...

Originally released as Jigokumen, Gate of Hell was one of the most popular Japanese imports of the 1954-55 American film season. Set in 12th-century feudal Japan, the film stars Kazuo Hasegawa as Moritoh, a samurai whose courage in defending his...

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Shinya Tsukamoto's Rokugatsu No Hebi (A Snake of June) is an erotic drama abut a married couple. Rinko (Asuka Kurosawa) and her husband Shigehiko (Yuji Koutari) have seen their marriage become sex less, which frustrates Rinko. One day she receives a...

This intense psychological thriller unfolds on a sleepy small town playground, when a mysterious stranger approaches a group of young friends, then kidnaps and brutally murders one of the girls. Wracked with grief, the victim's unhinged mother Asako...

"This first film by the legendary Hideo Gosha (Sword of the Beast) is among the most canonized chambara (sword-fighting) films. An origin-story offshoot of a Japanese television series phenomenon of the same name, THREE OUTLAW SAMURAI is a classic in...

Japanese auteur Takashi Miike takes an uncharacteristically serious and somber approach to this moody period tale of honor and revenge. In the 17th century, Japan is enjoying an era of calm and tranquility, which is good news for most people but bad...

A delirious fever dream of a film, Seijun Suzuki's Branded to Kill takes the familiar elements of "B"-movie crime drama and transforms them into something outrageously bizarre and unexpectedly poetic. The film's story centers on Han ada, a.k.a. "No....

Tokyo Drifter stands with Branded to Kill as one of the best-known and most acclaimed films of Seijun Suzuki, one of Japan's most talented maverick directors. A colorful riot of an action drama, Tokyo Drifter, like many of Suzuki's films, transforms...

An impromptu act of heroism leads to tragedy for a quiet loner and the battered daughter of a powerful yakuza boss. A lonely child who grew into a with drawn man, Sei gen is minding his own business when he sees pretty Misako being knocked around by...

Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru details the existential struggle of one ordinary man in his desperate search for purpose. Upon learning he has terminal stomach cancer, a low-level government bureaucrat (Takashi Shimura) leaves his job of thirty years without...

The Makioka Sisters will probably best be appreciated by those with an intimate knowledge of 20th century Japanese culture. The film, set just before World War II, chronicles the experiences of four upper-class Osaka sisters, two of them married. We...

A tale of gang warfare that features a raft of the period's most iconic stars, Akira Kobayashi ("Battles Without Honor And Humanity", "The Flowers And The Angry Waves") is a yakuza lieutenant who emerges from jail to find his gang dispersed and his...

(Japanese with English subtitles) This documentary dives into the expansive world of Japanese tattoo artists - the hori-shi - and offers a gritty take of the rich culture and masterful artistry behind the traditions in Japanese tattoo making. ...

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13 fearless swordsmen embark on a bloody suicide mission to seek justice for a hei nous crime that was covered up by the shogun in this samurai classic from director Eiichi Kudo (The Great Killing, The Fort of Death). A vicious Daimyo (feudal lord)...

The horror of war comes home for one couple in this drama from director Koji Wakamatsu. Kyuzo Kurokawa (Shima Ohnishi) is a soldier in the Japanese army, fighting the Chinese in the second Sino-Japanese War. Kyuzo is a warrior with little sense of...

A phenomenally popular rock star falls into a strange new reality as he prepares for the final show of his big tour. Miyavi's latest tour is winding down, but his legions of loyal fans are excited as ever. A few days before his big Shibuya show, the...

With "Beyond Outrage", action cinema master Takeshi Kitano returns to the hard boiled characters, black comedy and unflinching violence of his yakuza saga, "Outrage". This time, a manipulative police crackdown on organized crime has ignited a tricky...

Ataru Oikawa based his graphic horror film Tokyo Psycho on the exploits of a real serial killer. The movie ret races the steps of the madman who would scout his victims before striking in the most brutal of manners. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Season 4 may have marked the end of the American series of "Transformers", but Japan had many more stories to tell! "Transformers: Head masters" replaces the Gen One 4th season and begins one year after the end of Season 3. Language: Japanese.

Abbas Kiarostami has spent his incomparable movie career exploring the tiny spaces that separate illusion from reality and the simulated from the authentic. Like Someone in Love",?? which finds the Iranian director in Tokyo, may appear to be among...

Abbas Kiarostami has spent his incomparable movie career exploring the tiny spaces that separate illusion from reality and the simulated from the authentic. Like Someone in Love",?? which finds the Iranian director in Tokyo, may appear to be among...

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Said to be comparable to the Ancient Weapons of old, the Marines' trump card, the "Dyna Stones," have suddenly been stolen by a group of renegade vigilantes. The terrifyingly powerful man responsible, former Marine Admiral "Z," now stands in the path...

Steve Kaufman Teaches Crowd Pleasers and Show Stoppers [DVD] [Japanese] [2009]

Japanese director Seijun Suzuki solidified his growing cult following with this offbeat adaptation of Haruhiko Ooyabu's crime novel. Tajima, a smug investigator who nabs a pair of criminal gangs with flamboyant aplomb while the police remain baffled....