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The battle for life begins now; who will survive? A clash that transcends the boundaries between police and the yakuza.

After the father of a large family is injured and takes a leave of absence, mysterious things start happening in the household.

After a night of nightmares, a man wakes up and tries to learn the identity of his "terrible dream". A newlywed couple stopped by. There, the newlywed is told an eerie prophecy by an old fortune teller.

A2 is a continuation of director Tatsuya Mori's film A (1998), an incredible view inside the compound of Japan's Aum Shinrikyo cult after its leaders carried out the deadly sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway in 1995. Most followers had no idea that the attacks were being planned, or even that their new religion had violent aspirations. After the attacks, these followers were left to rebuild the religion where they had once found peace in the face of overwhelming, and understandable, condemnation from the rest of Japan. Central focus is placed on Hiroshi Araki, a young man who finds himself elevated to chief spokesman for Aum after its leaders are arrested. Araki faces extreme hostility from the Japanese public, who find it hard to believe that most followers of the cult had no idea of the attacks and even harder to understand why these followers remain devoted to the religion, if not the violence.

TV remake of Ozu's 'Late Spring'

Musicians perform live in the street in this one-take film.

In the cold region of Hokkaido, there is a Beiyou Yushi High School that specializes in recruiting high school students from all over the country who are unable to continue their studies due to bad behavior,

Sci-fi action film

After serving a term in prison because of shooting the leader of the rival group, Goro finds out that his fellow Yakuza Shiroyama, left the group and living as a normal people.

3D computer animation of the project "D's Garage 21", featuring three divers getting lost in a laundromat.

Drama following a young boxer Tomokazu and his relationship with his best friend Yoshiko and sister Misao as while he's training for an important match. His sister and friend have always been there for him, supporting him, but Tomokazu is about to find out that not everything is as simple as it may seem.

A female yakuza romantic historical action drama in which a kunoichi who escapes from an organization dances with action.

Takashi, an unemployed young man, is entrusted with a "catch ball shop" by a stranger he meets in the park. While accepting people's feelings through catch ball, Takashi himself remembers the important things that he had forgotten.

A love story starring Tamaki Hiroshi, Konishi Manami, Ikeuchi Hiroyuki, Hirayama Aya and Kamiki Ryunosuke. Hiroyuki, a fourth-year law student who has just broken up with his girlfriend Miwa, is approached by Satoshi, a student at the same university, on his way home from school and asked to do something strange. He wants to make a will for himself. Satoshi, who calls himself the "God of Death," begins to tell him about his mysterious past. He wants to get close to people but cannot. He says that everyone he was close to would die. So he has lived his life without befriending or loving anyone since he was a child. But when Satoshi meets a woman named Mizuki, he unexpectedly falls in love with her. And that was the beginning of a very sad love story...

Lian Son is a Taiwanese assassin hiding in Okinawa. Yukiko works at a lunch box shop, but she has a painful past. Saya works at a public swimming pool, but is bored with her life. The solitary lives of these three people slowly intersect with each other under the bright sunshine of Okinawa.

The third volume of the appointed drama starring Jun Murakami. It was a short run that was enlivening'Tokyo Mahouya'with his friends, but his friends were killed by the strategy of Yamaryu Gumi Wakato Iwagami. Meanwhile, Ginya Yabuki returns to Kabukicho and begins to struggle again to obtain his utopia.

Suddenly Mickey says, ‘The era is comedy’, and the three start talking about what role they should each play as comedians (‘What should I do?’). [Contents. Mickey's talk is on top form again today. But Jumbo and Matsun look at him... (‘This is now, isn't it?’). (‘This is now, isn't it?’).

The theme of this animation is "fashion".

2004 release

Ōtani Ryūzō (Ryu Daisuke), head of the Ōtani-gumi within the Tōdō-gumi, is stripped of his position due to the scheming of Serizawa Daijirō (Kawano Taro), head of the Serizawa-gumi. With Serizawa taking over as the new wakagashira, the Tōdō-gumi rapidly transforms into an economic yakuza group. They begin extorting indiscriminately under the guise of “regional revitalization association fees.” Even the store run by the wife of Mikasa Yūji (Musashi Ken)—who is still serving time—falls victim to this ruthless scheme. Osaka’s Minami district is thrown into chaos by Serizawa’s insatiable ambition. And so begins a new yakuza war, fought in the name of old-school ninkyōdō and honor!

Film adaptation of three short stories by horror mangaka Junji Ito: The Devil's Logic, The Long Hair in the Attic, and The Hanging Balloons.

The stage play is an alternate retelling of the end of the Yorknew City arc, where Kurapika captures Chrollo and forces the Phantom Troupe to exchange their hostages of Gon and Killua for their leader. This play also features flashbacks of before the Phantom Troupe first came to be. Unlike the first two stage plays, this is not a musical.

Shinnosuke and Misawa are joint managers of a Bonsai shop. Suddenly Shinnosuke's childhood friend Haruko turns up. She has split up with her boyfriend and finds herself out on the streets. Shinnosuke starts to like her and really wants to cheer her up, but he can't manage to express his real feelings or stop picking up other women. Misawa is dumbfounded by Shinnosuke's behavior but also has complex feelings of love for his friend.

Anthology film directed by Tadanobu Asano.

Biopic of painter Tanaka Isson

The sand group was in danger due to the erosion of the Chukyo Union. Behind the scenes was the darkening of Kurobe of the Tama Union, which is consolidating its position in the Kanto Ichienkai. On the other hand, Jin, who was struck by Mato, lived as a lone wolf at the excommunication of the Ichienkai, despite the concerns of Yoshiro and his friends. Under such circumstances, each organization of the Ichienkai will set up various works.

2007 release

Fukazawa Hiroshi chronicles the efforts of Teddy Chen to make Dark October, a film about Sun Yat-sen

Kouju Tatsuki's dinner show.

One rainy night in the Edo period, Kotono (a geisha) confronts samurais who killed her father. The samurais attack her one after another, but she fights hard against samurais with her sword. Kotono tries to chase the samurais who scramble to escape. Yet now three ninjas stand up against her. Kotono drops her sword by their wave of assaults. Can she beat them?

A group of eccentric students decide to make a movie. But, when their star suddenly quits, this witty ensemble cast begins to live the film, including murder, deception and true love.

The life and death of the men who are bound by violence.

Follows a truck driver on his day off, trying to buy a doll for his daughter, shortly before tragedy strikes. Loosely set in the Meatball Machine universe.

Ryo is a boy broken on an emotional level, doesn't go to school anymore and locks himself inside at home. Hiroki is a student constantly talking about changing the world, but struggles to keep up with his friends. Ami, an isolated girl, comes into the life of both boys. The three of them get alienated from society and slowly, but surely, from each other and themselves.

A young cameraman receives a letter from an old girlfriend, announcing that she is to hold a photo exhibition in the United States. Having heard rumors that she has died, he follows his curiosity to New York City.

At the remote and hidden Shaolinji temple, Miyoko, also known as Shaolin Grandma , has practiced martial arts fighting techniques there for many years. When she is badly defeated by Ippon-ashi, her young and attractive rival, Miyoko is thrown out of the temple. Loosing her identity, Miyoko and her two Shaolinji apprentice misfits drift to an urban town.

Tomboy Yui (Mao Inoue) brings her 3 male friends along with her to see a live performance of local Okinawan rap group, “Workaholic”. Upon witnessing the crowd reaction, the boys decide to start a rap group of their own to impress chicks—while Toru (Hayato Ichihara) has the added motivation of impressing his older, more sophisticated love interest Nagisa (Ayumi Ito). With only 2 weeks to learn how to play instruments and prepare for their first show, the performance is predictably humiliating. In order to save pride they decide to give it another shot, but this time they ditch the instruments for a sampler and stay truer to themselves. Will Toru be able to capture Nagisa’s heart? Will Yui ever confess her love to Toru or will she just keep practicing her advanced pro wrestling techniques on him instead?

Abandoned by his father as a boy, Yuta grows up as the foster son of a restaurant owner and takes over the restaurant at the owner's death. Cheery, always smiling, always helpful, Yuta is known as Yama-chan, the friend everyone turns to. When Yuta discovers he had a hitherto unknown baby brother, he sets out to track him down. But the baby brother, Yusuke, has grown up to be half of a successful comedy team, the Kinjo Brothers, and Yusuke's professional "brother" has just written a best-selling book about their adventures growing up together. Yuta's appearance on the scene threatens to reveal that the book is a complete fiction and to set all three "brothers" into conflict with each other.

The Kanto Ichienkai was devoted to the conflict with Hokuriku. At that time, Jin and his brother Tsuda appear in front of Jin in the former sand group. Tsuda was in a position to steal the money of the Hokuriku Union and be chased. Hitoshi and Yoshiro saved Tsuda's crisis, but it was Takechi, a brother of former Sunagawa group leader Sunagawa, who followed Tsuda. Twelve years ago, Takechi boarded an enemy territory alone in order to protect the sand group, which was still a weak organization, and was banished from Kanto due to that. What is the true meaning of Takechi's appearance over 12 years ?!

She's tantalizing. Spellbinding. Irresistible. And yet freelance photographer Uemura fights his attraction for the beautiful Mari with all his might. For not only is she the wife of the prominent head of a prestigious hospital, but all of those who've previously had affairs with this sensual succubus seem to have expired prematurely. It's a losing battle, however, and Uemura soon finds himself pulled into the arms of the voluptuous Mari and the jaws of a trap designed to suck men dry and spit out the husks. For it seems that Mari's husband, Ginjiro, is all too aware of who's been sleeping in his wife's bed, and the sexual predation that follows will pull Uemura into a world of bondage and depravity.

In Japan there is a wrestler. His name is legendary. His sombrero is enormous. His mask is cool. His name is BEETLE, THE HORN KING. A masked wrestler with his own theme song and the strength and agility of the mighty horn beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis), he fights for truth, justice and fairness in wrestling around the world with his homies, the International Masked Wrestler Association. But alien wrestlers based on lesser insects have invaded the planet and acted in a rude and disgusting manner. Now they must be laid low with Helicopter Kicks. Directed by Japan's hottest new comedy auteur, Minoru Kawasaki, BEETLE, THE HORN KING is the ultimate collision of masked Mexican wrestlers, Japanese sci fi and bug-loving weirdness

Setsuo is a single man in his thirties with no future prospects, no relationships with women, and lives alone. Sometimes, while working overtime, he fantasizes about his coworker Hiromi. But his days change when he starts living with Yaoko. When Yaoko tries to commit suicide on the beach, Setsuo saves her. But just as they get used to living together like a married couple, a man who claims to be Yaoko's relative arrives...

Documentary about the Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike, where we see him attend film festivals, personal influences and of course the study of his main films, apart from the opinions about him by other filmmakers such as Takeshi Kitano or Kinji Fukasaku.

Composer and Song writer Yuki Kajiura appears LIVE in concert, featuring music from her animation and video game works over the last 5 years. Accompany her are members of her FictionJuction group.

A documentary series of interviews with elderly Japanese men, former soldiers in Thailand or Burma, who hid from the departing Japanese troops at the end of WWII and made their lives with native families.

Sachiko Hanai is a call girl. One day she is caught up in a gunfight and is shot in the forehead. Instead of killing her, the bullet in her head gives her psychic powers. She also accidentally comes into possession of a cylinder containing George W. Bush's finger, whose fingerprint is designed to launch a nuclear missile, and international spies are soon chasing her.

The University of Tokyo is the most prestigious national and public university in Japan. A charismatic teacher who suffers cancer meets the poor-but-clever girl and he teaches how to overcome the barrier of the entrance examination of the most difficult top-notch university in Japan, as well as how to change a life. (Not to be confused with the 2016 Japanese remake by the same name of "Cinderella Formula")

Our story begins with two losers, Mitsuru and Maki, driving down the road with a drugged and kidnapped little girl in the back of their car. They owe lots of yen for drugs and a kidnapping scheme seemed to only possible way to get the money. The problem is, that when they call to make ransom demands, the people state that their daughter died a year ago, so who the hell do they have in their custody? The kidnappers are holed up in an old school, turns out it was the school that Mitsuru used to go to and it's now abandoned. Or, SEEMINGLY abandoned.

In the early hours of August 5th, 1928, a baby was born into the family of the gang leader, Gizo Ato (played by Ryuutaro Hara) from the Ato family in Honjo City, Akita Prefecture. This child would grow up to succeed as the second-generation leader of the Joto Kansan family, eventually unifying and ruling the Tohoku tekiya (street vendor) industry. The story of the Tohoku's supreme leader, Giei Ato (played by Mikio Osawa), begins with a life full of turmoil...

Jiro is a chubby and clumsy young man who is very unhappy about his appearance. He has difficulty finding his feet and it is certainly beyond his ability to find a girlfriend. At a certain point he falls in love...

Okatsu is a widow raising five children - adults but still mama-dependent - in mid-eighteenth century Edo, Japan. Her frugality attracts unflattering comment even amid national tough times (the region is in famine) What Okatsu tells no one is that she saves so that a friend can start his own business once he's released from prison.

Zwei was an ordinary person, until one day, while walking the streets a night, he witnessed a brutal assassination. He managed to avoid the sniper, a young girl named Ein, but was soon captured, and had the memories of his former life erased. He is spared death only by accepting a condition: to train to become an assassin alongside Ein. Now he must find a way to free himself from this shady world and reclaim his life once again.

The story involves an aloof thief, a young man who turns to God after his father’s suicide, a manipulative marriage councilor, a man who recently lost his job, and several others whose lives become intertwined in various unexpected ways.

Sensitive and refined drama in which experiences from the puberty of a female teacher and a piano student reflected in the world of the younger generation they have contact with.

The movie takes place entirely in and around the Mini Moni Cafè. The Mini Moni Cafè is run by the first generation members of Mini Moni, who are lead by Mari Yaguchi. Mika Todd is the primary baker for the cafè and Ai Kago and Nozomi Tsuji are bumbling waitresses. One day Kago and Tsuji serve a particularly enthusiastic customer (played by Ai Takahashi) who says she has never had such a delicious cake before. When the waitress explain they do not know the secret ingredient that makes the cakes so good, Takahashi decides to sneak into the cafè later find out what it is and steal it.

The second installment in the series of fantasy swordplay action movies starring Riki Takeuchi. After the previous battle, Kengo and his allies go to Kengo's father, Muneyoshi, to leave their swords with him and tell him about the masterless Murasame Utsusemi. After Kengo leaves, Muneyoshi is attacked by Shimazu, who suddenly appears.

Anthology of five low-budget short films: "Nao and I", "MILD7", "LOVERS", "Strawberry Fields", "Label"