Japanese films

Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.

An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.

The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill one another under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

Two groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet.

A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.

An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.

Two disquieted junior baseball players seek revenge on the local yakuza for attacking their coach.

A violence prone police officer discovers that his colleague is trafficking drugs.

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.

Late at night, a woman is kidnapped by an unknown assailant and taken back to his blood-spattered dungeon, where he turns her into a "flower of blood and flesh" through a series of dismemberment and evisceration.

As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of achieving.

Based on a true story. In 1915, a mountain village in Japan was attacked by a giant bear, dubbed "Red Spot", who terrorized the villagers for days, murdering the men and carrying off the women to save for a late night meal. Sonny Chiba (`Kill Bill`), in his directorial debut, and special advisor Kinji Fukasaku ("Battle Royale") present a film based on this terrifying real life incident.

The head of a Japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous.

A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.

Prodded by a friend request, a forty-something recalls his past relationships from the 90s onward, looking for his vanished hopes and dreams.

A renowned stage actor and director learns to cope with a big personal loss when he receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima.

Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies.

As former detective Akikazu searches for his missing daughter, Kanako, he soon learns she has a mysterious secret life.

On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence.

After a sudden worldwide power cut, a Tokyo family are caught up in the chaos as millions traverse the country in search of electricity.

A schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.

Sayaka, a ditzy high school girl, is unexpectedly encouraged by an optimistic and unconventional teacher to apply for admission to Keio University. Inspired to reach her goal and prove a point, Sayaka completely throws herself to the task.