Plot: After his adoptive father passes away, Joji goes in search of his biological relatives, only to find that they are involved in a life of crime. When he refuses to participate, he puts himself in danger.
Plot: Kenichi Matsuyama ("L: Change The World") stars as a nerdy aspiring pop singer who becomes a devil-crying death metal rocker in this film adaptation of the popular manga by Wakasugi Kiminori.
Japan: 2007
Etsushi Toyokawa, Shinobu Terajima Drama / Romance
Plot: The film starts with Kikuji's capture for the murder of his girlfriend, and throughout his court trial we see moments from their love affair through scattered flashbacks, learning that he strangled her to death because she asked him to.
AKA: Lady Ninja Kaeda 1; Lady Ninja Kaeda One; Lady Ninja Kaede 1; Lady Ninja Kaede One; Kaede Japan: 2007
Mai Nadasaka, Yume Imano, Miyoko Sakura, Masato Takaoka Martial Arts / Erotica
Plot: In samurai era Japan, a female ninja seeks vengeance after her sister is raped and subsequently commits suicide. During her quest, the lies and secrets behind the rape are slowly revealed behind a trail of clothing, sweat, and blood.
Plot: During the 2008 G8 summit near a volcano in Hokkaido, a Chinese rocket causes the monstrous Girara to be born. As the world's leaders implement plans to destroy the monster, two journalists stumble across a mysterious idol that may be the key...
AKA: Zatoichi: The TV Series; Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman: The Television Series; Zatoichi Monogatari; The Tale Of Zatoichi Japan: 1974 TV Shows/Movies / Martial Arts
Plot: Contains the complete first season, Episodes 1-26, of the "Zatoichi" TV series on 12 discs (also available separately).
AKA: Three Seconds Before Explosion Japan: 1967
Akira Kobayashi, Ryoji Hayama, Kazuo Kitamura, Katsue Takaishi Crime / Action/Adventure
Plot: A lightning-paced 60's crime film from Japan's Nikkatsu Studios, Three Seconds to Explosion packs enough subterfuge and action into its 84 volatile minutes to fill out a dozen pictures made anywhere else.
Plot: 1963's "Detective Bureau 2-3" flipped the Japanese gangster film genre on its ear, both lampooning and redefining Asian crime films for an irreverent new decade of garish panache and ultra-violent cool.
AKA: Kakushi Toride No San Akunin [Japanese Title]; Three Bad Men In A Hidden Fortress; Three Rascals In The Hidden Fortress; The Three Villains Of The Hidden Fortress Japan: 1958
Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura Action/Adventure / Drama
Plot: This superb Japanese adventure film centers around a faithful but cynical general who, with the aid of two eccentric, oddball farmers, helps a headstrong princess safely cross a dangerous wasteland.
Plot: When Minami is sent to kill his mentor, Ozaki, who is in the midst of a nervous breakdown, he embarks on a journey of unexplained natural phenomena that only director Takashi Miike could provide in this surreal Lynchian/Cronenberg-like odyssey!
Plot: As the government's vast armies of samurai besiege the Toyotomi ninja clan in fierce battle, the fate of the nation will be decided by a desperate struggle in the dark!
Plot: Director Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
AKA: 20th Century Boys; Juvenile: Boys Meet The Future; 20th Century Boys 1: Beginning Of The End; Twentieth Century Boys 1: Beginning Of The End Japan: 2008
Toshiaki Karasawa, Etsushi Toyokawa, Takako Tokiwa Fantasy / Science Fiction
Plot: This live action version of Naoki Urasawa's manga series is the first in an epic globe-hopping fantasy trilogy, about a young man who attempts to unravel the secret of a sinister conspiracy.
Plot: In the near future, Earth has been devastated by a nuclear Hell. In these troubled times, kinetic martial arts have replaced weapons of mass destruction, and the legendary Fist of the North Star style may then be the only hope for humanity's survival.
Plot: After a private detective's clients are killed and have their organs removed, he follows the clues and meets an eccentric painter, one whose paints are rumored to be made with human blood and organs. Directed by Takashi Miike.
Plot: The Ginza Butterfly Nami (Meiko Kaji, returning to her role from the original) is back in a new story that finds her on the hunt for Hoshiden, the man who killed her gambler father when she was only a child.
Plot: A two-part yakuza series starring iconic cult actress Meiko Kaji ("Lady Snowblood") in her first films for Toei. This pair of modern-day revenge sagas feature cruel mobsters, gambling showdowns, and bloody retribution. Co-stars Sonny Chiba!
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