Ren Osugi

Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war, supposedly as mediators between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, his group is attacked in an ambush. The survivors flee and make a decision to lay low at the beach while they await further instructions.

Dir. Takeshi Kitano · With Takeshi Kitano, Aya Kokumai, Tetsu Watanabe

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.

Dir. Takeshi Kitano · With Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?

Dir. Yoji Yamada · With Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi

A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.

Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa · With Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki

A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.

Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda · With Makiko Esumi, Tadanobu Asano, Takashi Naito

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.

Dir. Takeshi Kitano · With Takeshi Kitano, Kanako Higuchi, Yûrei Yanagi

Five years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a noted fixer. When tensions rise between Chang and the Hanabishi, and Chang's life is endangered, Otomo returns to Japan to settle things once and for all.

Dir. Takeshi Kitano · With Takeshi Kitano, Toshiyuki Nishida, Ken Mitsuishi

Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and visit the small island they once called home. After reflecting on their past lives they decided to team up and use their talents in killing for good... much to the upset of the crime syndicates.

Dir. Takashi Miike · With Show Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi, Noriko Aota

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.

Dir. Takashi Miike · With Riki Takeuchi, Show Aikawa, Renji Ishibashi

It is 300 years into the future. Earth's environment had been devastated by mankind's own foolish plans and humankind is beleaguered by the sentient forests which they have awoken. The world balance is tipped when a young boy named Agito stumbles across a machine that glowed in a strange blue hue inside a forbidden sanctuary.

Dir. Keiichi Sugiyama · With Ryo Katsuji, Aoi Miyazaki, Yuko Kotegawa

An aspiring hairdresser becomes the infatuation of a tricophilic man who sells hair extensions to nearby salons. The source is the corpse of a girl whose corpse continues to grow beautiful, voluminous, black hair that comes alive, either driving the extension user insane or killing them.

Dir. Sion Sono · With Chiaki Kuriyama, Ren Osugi, Megumi Sato

The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.

Dir. Higuchinsky · With Eriko Hatsune, Fhi Fan, Hinako Saeki