Japan Movies

The world continues to look to Japan as a highly industrialized, future-oriented country that has retained much of its ancient tradition. This series...

This documentary film follows for 22 years a nine-member family involved in the manufacturing of Udon in the Goto Islands, Nagasaki prefecture. Mr....

At the baseball club of Yame Kita High School in the southern part of Fukuoka Prefecture, fierce competition for positions was always fought. In the...

In an attempt to escape their problems, three struggling college students take an impromptu trip to Japan. As they aimlessly roam this foreign...

Daichi Miura's concert film of his BEST HIT TOUR at Nippon Budokan on February 15, 2018 to conclude his 2017 national tour.

A found footage anthology horror film by Kôji Shiraishi.

Sin is a rock star. He has an amazingly loud voice with a range of four octaves. His secret is that he has created his voice through a method of...

Hidden in the wooded mountains on the west coast of Japan lies the small Zen monastery Antaiji. A young woman sets off to immerse herself through...

Uchida Mayu is a high school student in a peaceful town near Tokyo. She suffers from violence from her stepfather and plans to run away to her...

In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew...

One rainy night in the Edo period, Kotono (a geisha) confronts samurais who killed her father. The samurais attack her one after another, but she...

Shohei Yamamoto, a man whose marriage proposal was rejected because of his low educational background. From then on, he hated all women and seduced...

A visual documentary of Einstürzende Neubauten, the German underground band, by Japanese cult director Sogo Ishii, made during their 1985 tour...

Jörg Buttgereit, a lifelong fan of Japanese monster movies, as he travels to Japan to explore the world of Kaijū cinema — including...

A sensual coming-of-age drama direct — It depicts a precarious relationship between a homosexual woman and a man who was picked up by her and...

There is an old love hotel in Tokyo's Shinjuku district where couples can rent a room by the hour for romantic assignations. However, few of its...

A personal documentary that tracks the construction of America's collective memory (or lack of one) of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It...

The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai who seek vengeance against the man who caused their master's death.

Stories depicting ordinary people revolving around ceremonial occasions. Without knowing that the funeral is for a yakuza member, an undertaker holds...

Satoshi Murayama, the shogi (Japanese chess) master known as the arch-rival of Yoshiharu Habu, the shogi genius of the century, died of an...