Amanogawa

The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.

Runtime

1h 48m

Director

Sion Sono

Cast

Rie Kuwana, Masumi Miyazaki, Seiko Iwaido

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged Am...

Runtime

2h 24m

Director

Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku

Cast

Martin Balsam, So Yamamura, Joseph Cotten

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.

Runtime

2h 2m

Director

Kei Kumai

Cast

Komaki Kurihara, Yoko Takahashi, Kinuyo Tanaka

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 Jap...

Runtime

2h 9m

Director

Yoji Yamada

Cast

Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi

When the bizarre mass suicide of 54 high school girls throwing themselves in front of a subway train appears to instigate a string of suicides around the country, Detective Kuroda strives to find the answer, which isn't as simple as he had hoped.

Runtime

1h 39m

Director

Sion Sono

Cast

Masatoshi Nagase, Ryo Ishibashi, Sayako Hagiwara