Closing Time

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the in...

Runtime

2h 2m

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Cast

Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji

This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past -- where he sees his parents before their deaths -- to the presen...

Runtime

2h 41m

Director

Gaspar Noé

Cast

Paz de la Huerta, Nathaniel Brown, Cyril Roy

Adapted from a sex-stuffed cult novel, LALAPIPO (a play on the phrase “A Lot of People”) follows divergent seedy strands of sexual and narrative spaghetti through the sticky Tokyo night. There’s a chubby freelance writer who’s so obsessed with masturbating to the sound of his upstairs neighbors going at it that he forgets to deal with ...

Runtime

1h 34m

Director

Masayuki Miyano

Cast

Yuri Nakamura, Hiroki Narimiya, Saori Hara

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 behav...

Runtime

2h 22m

Director

Jōji Matsuoka

Cast

Joe Odagiri, Kirin Kiki, Yayako Uchida

A teenager named Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Toyokawa, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's family circle, which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.

Runtime

2h 39m

Director

Sion Sono

Cast

Kazue Fukiishi, Tsugumi, Yuriko Yoshitaka