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4 guys kidnap random people from the street, take them to a remote forest and give them 3 choices: run away, kill us or die. The film follows the fate of one of their victims.

Winner of the 1992 Galaxy Award Encouragement Prize and the 1992 Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association Award Excellence Prize. Winner of the 10th ATP Award '93 Grand Prix. Winner of the 10th ATP Award '93 Excellence Prize. Selected as one of the "Best 20 Programmes" at the 10th ATP Award '93. "Through the story of a couple, we ask what it means to live and love. Kazuo (Sato Koichi) and Ritsuko (Imai Miki) were happily married through an arranged marriage during the war. One year later, Kazuo is sent to the city as a member of an army press corps. When he returns home after completing his mission, he finds Ritsuko, who has contracted intestinal tuberculosis and is bedridden. [This section is taken from "J-com magazine" 2004/02 (published by J-com Kansai)]"

The story of a man and woman dealing with amnesia, set in Prague.

Based on the character Rika-chan from Takara Tomy's long-running line of girls' toys, this is the third installment in the OVA series "Rika-chan" that aired in the 1990s. One Sunday. Rika goes to her friend Izumi's relative's house with Izumi and ends up answering the doorbell there. The house had a large tree in the backyard and was quite luxurious, but there was a shy girl named Akichan and her younger sister Tomochan who were a bit concerning.

The story of a young man who tragically lost his lover in a horriffic motorcycle accident. Now working at a video store and selling uncensored gay hardcore pornography under the counter, he one day discovers the worlds most bizarre snuff video... which happens to "star" a man who looks exactly like his dead lover. Pushed over the edge by this event, the protagonist goes on a violent rampage, attempting to murder everybody involved in the video's creation.

Yasuko was dissatisfied with her troubled married life. One day, she opened the door to hear a voice saying "It's delivery time," and when she went back to get her seal, she was attacked by the delivery man, Kenichi. In her fear, Yasuko was shown evidence that her body had reacted against her will, and was violated at his mercy. Kenichi took a picture of Yasuko, saying that he had asked him to. Then Yumiko came to see him, so Kenichi ran away. When Yumiko saw Yasuko naked, she realized that she had been raped.

Arisugawa is a businessman who has been transferred to a local branch office. However, the people at the branch office are all peculiar...

In this ambitious work, popular actress Hayashi Yumika plays a fictional version of herself, transformed into the queen of an image club. Under the direction of Fukamachi Akira, who knows the pink film world inside and out, Sese Takahisa has written an elaborate script, and this masterpiece disguises itself as a fake documentary but turns into a story of pure love. Taro (Araki Taro) goes undercover to an image club in Kabukicho to film a new documentary about the sex industry. As Taro (Araki Taro) and his former colleague, Yumika (Hayashi Yumika), who is now a popular image club owner, engage in some intense play in front of the camera, the flames of love begin to flare up.

Tokiko Haebaru, a 76-year-old grandmother living in Nago, Okinawa. She soon embarks on a marathon across Japan.

Yawara helps a group of timid grade school kids overcome their fears and compete in a judo competition.

Kunimatsu Onda, owner of the ‘Matsuya’ pachinko chain, has handed the business over to his son Ryosuke and is now living a life of leisure. A notorious womaniser by nature, he would constantly make advances at women here and there, much to the annoyance of his wife, Masayo. Under the pretext of visiting a new machine manufacturer’s factory, Kunimatsu sets off for a hot spring resort to enjoy an affair with the geisha Momono; however, Masayo, having caught on to his plan, instructs Ryosuke to keep an eye on him and, accompanied by the shop manager Maruyama, heads to the hot spring herself. What was supposed to be a fun night turned into a family gathering, but during that time, the shop came perilously close to being taken over by a gang of professional pachinko players led by Eiko.

Surgeon Asami Hanaoka is in financial difficulty. A gang soon plot to takeover the hospital.

In the Tosa in the early Showa era, the fourth series of Tempo active series that depicts the activity of the woman trainer involved in the conflict of two pairs of confrontation yakuza.

Based on the life of James Dean.

In a gritty coastal town, scandal and perverse desire ignite a relentless spiral of illicit encounters. The tale centers on Tamayo Mochizuki, a married woman whose secret trysts with her lover Yoshiyuki unfold in a secluded, rocky cove—while a group of lecherous onlookers spy with voyeuristic glee, tossing crude, provocative remarks. As passion intensifies, the rendezvous devolves into a chaotic melee of lust, sex and betrayal; what begins as daring escapades quickly darkens into brutal power plays where forbidden desire and violence blur. Amid raucous seaside parties and seething rivalries, erotic debauchery unravels in a night marked by twisted seduction, intense sexual acts, shocking coercion, and the irrevocable shattering of lives by uncontrolled, corrupt passion.

Harada Kusuko is a high school girl with a secret crush on the class playboy, Mishima Takeshi.

Hideo Sakiki, a man who once crushed a hostile organization by himself, is back. This is because the funeral of the leader who was taken care of. However, the existence of Hideo stimulates other organizations as well as dislike...

The second installment of a V-Cinema sports drama, directed by Kurosawa in 1994, following "打鐘" (Dakan) from 1993, which was based on Yamamoto's manga and directed by Komatsu Takashi. While there is no direct narrative connection between the two films, they share thematic similarities. The protagonist, Wataru Tachibana, a self-destructive yet genius keirin cyclist, is once again passionately portrayed by Nishimura. This time, Wataru fiercely competes against a rival known as the "Prince of Keirin," who is also the heir of a powerful conglomerate. Kurosawa directs with intense and dramatic storytelling, capturing the protagonist’s burning determination.

Pinku directed by Nitta Sakae.

A female prison guard arrives to conduct a psychiatric evaluation of an 18-year-old female inmate. But what awaits her? Lesbianism, S&M, rape, gang rape... An erotic film depicting forbidden desires and passions unfolding within a women's prison.

One day, the brutally murdered body of his colleague, Detective Utsumi, was discovered. Maruyoshi immediately visits Xu Fang, the Taiwanese hostess Utsumi had been seeing, but finds himself in the crosshairs of a mysterious gun… A few days later, Utsumi’s police ID was found at a murder scene. Xu Fang had manipulated Utsumi into plotting to steal a large quantity of methamphetamine from the Jaō-kai. Furthermore, there is Zhang, a serial killer who pulls the strings behind the scenes, manipulating Xu Fang whilst being pursued by the mafia in his home country. Betrayal begets further betrayal, and as the search for the missing methamphetamine unfolds, a complex web of conflicting interests and power struggles unfolds.

Su-San invites Hama-chan to go fishing at a place close to his heart after learning about Hama-chan and his wife's fertility problems.

Five junior high school students in the city enjoy stealing as a game to pass the time. One day, a mysterious masked man suddenly appears in front of them and attacks them.

The ephemeral and vivid brilliance of three men and a woman run through Yokohama.

Marumi Sakurada is a second year high school student. Marumi, who lost her virginity early on, indulges in lesbian play with her best friend Tama-chan. Still, Marumi is far from the love she longs for, and Marumi coldly hits her classmate Marugame, who has feelings for her..

Filmed in a documentary style, six patients in six wards of different ages and circumstances await death at a hospital in Japan. The sterile and dismal environment is contrasted against the emotional being of the patients, their visitors and relatives and the outside world, which they will never again survey.

Ayako Mano, who is nearly identical in appearance to Yohko, is introduced; she has spent her life training and honing her abilities so that one day she may defeat Yohko and become the devil hunter of the Mano family, and now she is ready for the final confrontation. Yohko continues to live her life and is unaware of Ayako until she starts stealing away every guy that on whom Yohko has a crush. Then one night while taking a bath, Yohko hears something outside and gives chase. She then meets up with an Azusa look-alike. She and Ayako attack the unsuspecting Yohko with crushing attacks, while Yohko parries the onslaught. The fight stops, but Ayako vows to finish it. Madoka reveals a certain part of her past that relates to the encounter.

A husband and wife abandon their son. When he grows up and finds success, they reunite...but to what end?

One day, a young man who lost his father when he was young was supposed to meet up with a young man in the mail for a gay magazine, but a strange, dirty middle-aged man shows up on the spot. He had been deceived...

A big battle between world class phantom thieves unfolds over the worlds largest diamond!

A motor action film depicting a young man who bets all of his youth on speed!

Kabukicho, Shinjuku. Shoichi Sakurai meets a man who goes to a mahjong parlor from 9am to 5pm and realizes that there is something missing in his mahjong. Next, a soba restaurant owner from Karuizawa who lost his land because of mahjong appears before Sakurai. Sakurai teaches him mahjong when he asks for his help, but...

A fugitive man and woman (Kawase, Kawana) come to an island to retrieve their son (Iwasaki), who the woman has given to a foster family, but the son's foster parents are policemen (Ito)... The suspense surrounding the retrieval of the son is made unusual by the location shooting on the vast and desolate Miyakejima Island and leads to an allegorical drama about the essential desires of human beings. This was Kawase Yota's first appearance in a Zeze film, and he has since become a regular actor. The title of the film at the time of its first release was Sukebe Tenkomori.

A short tokusatsu movie where real life pro wrestler Hikari Fukuoka plays a bounty hunter that has to fight a monster. It's part of a series of sci-fi monster hunter movies starring female pro wrestlers. The other two are Monster Commando M and Monster Commando Y.

Toru and Hiroshi, the strongest combination in history, are completely revived!

A man's soul (he is in a coma) must make a lonely woman happy or he will die on Christmas day.

Based on the manga by Mizuho Shuushi, the story shows a realistic portrayal of a Japanese bike gang member trying to live up to social expectations of him being a 'legend'.

A veteran hitman who has failed his job and returns to his hometown of Okinawa to escape from the organization's pursuit. Decades later, in Okinawa, he meets his nephew, a beautiful young man. He falls in love with the young man, but eventually the organization follows him to Okinawa and starts closing in on them...

Office worker Kanako takes a trip to Nanki Shirahama in Wakayama Prefecture as part of a travel agency project to reunite with her first love. She was nominated by Yamano, a classmate from elementary school. Kanako meets Yamano for the first time in 15 years, but for some reason their old stories don't add up. She gradually begins to suspect that Yamano is a fake, but...

Ryoko is dispatched from the hospital to care for Tsuyoshi Tatsumi, a businessman who is nearing death...

A man dubbed "Karate Kid" is imprisoned and forced to fight for his life in an underground fighting ring.

Impressed by Jean Cocteau’s rewrite of Antigone, Stravinsky asked the poet for an adaptation of Oedipus Rex. The resulting libretto brings together the key scenes of Sophocles’s tragedy translated by the Abbé Jean Daniélou into Latin—a language that, according the composer, “is not dead but engraved in stone, and so imposing that it is immune to any popularization”.

Puffy AmiYumi's first live performance, which served as a promotional concert for their album 'amiyumi', along with bonus material showing their experiences as a band.

Second part of the Elements series with the motif of "water". A beautiful swamp image is displayed at the beginning. An allegorical story of sisters and lovers living at the bottom of the water is developed in an experimental narrative that does not depend on dialogue. Aesthetic images and music highlight the dazzling atmosphere.

The video has the five Kakurangers listing off the five keys of being a ninja as found in a hidden scroll locked in their secret headquarters.

Based on the comic written by Masao Yajima and illustrated by Kenshi Hirokane

Some of the greatest battles during the Age of Civil Wars were fought between the Uesugi and Takeda clans. Leading up to them was the incredible life of Uesugi Kenshin, who rose from a son out of favor with his...

Based on the manga by Shinichi Sugimura published in Young Magazine. In a combination of samurai movie and Bomber Bikers of Shonan, Tokyo street punk Masao buys a treasured FZR "katana" motorcycle and becomes a knight of the road, attacking criminals with a genuine katana sword.

A violent action film about a legendary hitman who seeks revenge on a traitor. Yuji, a former assassin who once left the life behind, accepts a contract from a man tied to him through a master–disciple bond to assassinate the boss of a rival organization—only to find an unexpected trap waiting for him.

Live Action Movie Based off of manga of the same name by Kadota Hiroshi.

Making of "20th Century Nostalgia"

Tomoko has been dating Shingo Kawai, an associate professor at a certain women’s university, for three years. Frustrated by the lack of progress in their relationship, she forgot she was driving and launched into a furious tirade at Shingo. Just then, a man named Tadokoro darted out into the road. Forced into a staged accident to settle a debt, he was the unluckiest bloke imaginable—crashing into Shingo’s estate car instead of his intended target, a Mercedes. Panicked, Shingo and Tomoko shoved the limp Tadokoro into the boot and made a narrow escape. That was their stroke of luck. The car, still carrying Tadokoro, was stolen by someone, and next it was used as a getaway vehicle by kidnappers… Unbeknownst to Shingo and Tomoko, the car went on to commit a string of crimes!

A unique group of individuals who stand out in the Japanese film industry.

An old man who is a scissor enthusiast indulges in the perverted act of cutting panties every day on the train. Yoriko, an office worker who fell prey to the molester, prepared a powerful magnet and boarded a crowded train the next day to catch him. Part of the long-running "Groper Train" series.