Dead or Alive
Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to bring it down.
Fireworks
Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.
Magare! Supûn
Once a year, on Christmas Eve, Cafe Telekinesis holds a real psychic party. At the party, psychics gather together to show off their abilities while for the rest of the year they hide their abilities. Yone Sakurai is a program director for a psychic variety TV show called "Asunaro Psychic". She is stressed out and tired from her work, but proud of what she is doing. Yone actually believes in psychic abilities. By an audience request a new plan is set out for the program, a plan which requires the show to uncover real psychics or psychic events.
The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji
Reiji Kikukawa, who has a strong sense of justice, graduated from the police academy with the lowest score ever. He becomes a police constable, but is suddenly fired by the Police Chief due to "disciplinary" issues. In actuality, the firing is part of a carefully orchestrated plan to set him up as an undercover cop in the Yakuza.
Kantoku · Banzai!
Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.
A-hômansu
A homeless man suffering from memory loss is unbeatable in a fight. He becomes involved with the Yakuza. It is based on a manga by Carib Marley.
Violent Cop
A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and Yakuza activities.
Gamera the Brave
A young boy in a peaceful seaside town gets more than he bargained for when he takes home a mysterious egg. When it hatches, out comes a baby turtle that grows into a new version of Gamera. But will it become powerful enough in time to defeat the rampaging monster Zedus?
Hula Girls
Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.
Isola: Multiple Personality Girl
When a woman, able to read the thoughts of others, comes to help survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, she encounters a girl with Multiple Personality Disorder whose dangerous 13th personality, Isola, must be stopped
Still Walking
A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.
Chasuke's Journey
Things are hectic in heaven. Dozens of scribes sit before a long scroll incessantly scribbling away. They are composing the biographies of earth-dwellers. What is invented by the men in heaven is lived out below. And their employer, God, is increasingly vehement in demanding avant-garde ideas. Take, for example, the beautiful Yuri, a girl who dies in a car crash. Some of the heavenly scribes find this very dull and send former gangster Chas, who has become a heavenly tea-boy, back down to earth with instructions to save Yuri no matter what. And so Chas ends up in Okinawa, gets to know the earth-dwellers, interferes in their fates, becomes celebrated as 'Mr Angel' and is hounded by brutal enemies. His falling in love with Yuri is of course a foregone conclusion. But no one could anticipate what happens next. Not even God himself
Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn between the inherited recklessness of his father Oton and the inherited responsibility, wisdom and emotional strength of his mother Okan. Following a period of intensely rebellious behavior, Boku learns that his mom has contracted cancer; suddenly, his mother comes to live with him in Tokyo the entire emotional landscape of his life is altered.
Izo
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.
Ran
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
A Scene at the Sea
A deaf garbage collector happens upon a broken and discarded surfboard. The discovery plants in him dreams of becoming a surf champion. Encouraged by his also deaf girlfriend, he persists against all odds.
Music Box
A former yakuza returns to gangster life after an old enemy threatens his son.
Air Doll
A life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she goes for a walk around town and falls in love with Junichi. She starts to date Junichi and gets a job at the same store where he works. Everything seems to be going perfectly for her until something unexpected happens.
Taboo
Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.
Kids Return
Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place.
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Takashi Miike
Director
Kazuki Kitamura
as
Shingo Tsurumi
as
Chen
Susumu Terajima
as
Inoue
Sei Hiraizumi
as
Police Chief
Takeshi Kitano
Director
Kanji Tsuda
as
Shûji Ôtsuki
as
Yoshiyuki Morishita
as
Hoodlum B
Yutaka Matsushige
as
Hiroki Miyake
as
Koyama
Masami Nagasawa
as
Yone Sakurai
Sarutoki Minagawa
as
Yûsuke Kamiji
as
Takayuki Yamada
as
Tsukihara
Ikuji Nakamura
as
Renji Ishibashi
as
Dating Cafe's Customer
Ryo Ishibashi
as
Michio Yamazaki
Maiko Kawakami
as
Akari
Shirô Sano
as
Yoshinari
Tetsu Watanabe
as
Kaho
as
Mai Nishio
Daikichi Sugawara
as
Yû Aoi
as
Kimiko Tanikawa
Yasuko Matsuyuki
as
Madoka Hirayama
Akira Ishida
as
Kiriko Shimizu
as
Ken Ishiguro
as
Dr. Kazuhiko Manabe
Hirokazu Koreeda
Director
Haruko Katô
as
You
as
Chinami Kataoka
Kazuya Takahashi
as
Nobuo Kataoka
Hiromasa Taguchi
as
Tina Tamashiro
as
Chako
Yûsuke Iseya
as
Hikomura
Tôru Nakamura
as
(as Toru Nakamura)
Ryô Katsuji
as
Hiraguri
Mickey Curtis
as
(as Mikkî Kâchisu)
Rikiya Yasuoka
as
Lender
Liam O'Brien
as
Prince
Akira Kurosawa
Director
Masuo Amada
as
Mieko Harada
as
Lady Kaede
Sabu Kawahara
as
Takoh
Nobuko Sendô
as
Kiyo Kanzaki
Mitsuru Hirata
as
Mineyama
Shô Aikawa
as
Sho Sinkyo
Takashi Yamanaka
as
Doona Bae
as
Nozomi
Kimiko Yo
as
Receptionist
Nagisa Ôshima
Director
Chikako Aoyama
as
Masatô Ibu
as
Officer Koshitaro Ito
Tadanobu Asano
as
Samurai Hyozo Tashiro
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