Mitsuko Baisho

In a mythical land, a man and a young boy investigate a series of unusual occurrences.

A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.

A collection of tales based upon eight of director Akira Kurosawa's recurring dreams.

In a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. An elderly woman is reaching close to her cut-off age during her last days with her family.

Chronological exploits of Iwao Enokizu, a murderous thief on the run.

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After the release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking almost to no one except an eel he befriended while in prison.

The effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks are told from different points of view around the world.

A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.

A destitute ronin allies himself with an established clan, but its ruthless leader tries to turn him into a mindless killer.

After moving into a new house, a family starts acting crazier and crazier.

In 1993 Kanao and Shoko are a Tokyo couple awaiting the arrival of their first child. Although both have studied art, Kanao works as a shoe repairman, which doesn't stretch his rather laid-back style, and Shoko works in a small pu...

A tough police detective is falsely accused of corruption, and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.

Ren Takahashi and Aoi Sonoda are both children of the 1980s having been born in 1989. They met in 2002 and got to know love and lust at that young age through each other. As it so often happens at that age they went their separate...

A Japanese immigrant in 1901 Hong Kong wishes to become a simple shopkeeper. Fate soon intervenes, allowing him to mix adventure and fervent patriotism with greed.

Nine years after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, two murder cases take place in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. The two victims are assumed to have been murdered by the same person. Both of the victims were tied all over their ...

The loves and tragedies of a geisha in 1933 Japan.

A thug is released after fifteen years in prison for the murder of a yakuza gang boss. Things were never going to be simple and bygones were never going to be bygones of course, but to make matters more complicated the murdered bo...

Katsu is now an old woman who even at seventy three has not lost her penchant for being sardonic and dissatisfied. Upon visiting a photography studio her life and body are transported to that of a twenty-year-old girl giving her t...

Kiko Mishima (Hana Sugisaki) was exploited by her own family. When she was little, her mother neglected her. After her mother remarried, Kiko Mishima was abused mentally and physically by her family that included her mother, stepf...

University student sax player gets a lesson in the hard-boiled noir life.

A darker, deconstructionist depiction of the legendary samurai Musashi Miyamoto.

The story is based on a real story of the residents of the island of Miyakejima, which erupted in 2000 and had to be evacuated. A family, Matsuo, Takako, Matsuo's mother Fusako, and Matsuo and Takako's young son Shin live on the ...