Naoto Takenaka

The final showdown, and the final reveal. who is Friend? How can he be stopped?

A simple Chinese immigrant wages a perilous war against one of the most powerful criminal organizations on the planet.

A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the ...

Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she’s grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.

The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid ...

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama’s life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, ...

Schoolgirl Kuniko is kidnapped by a middle-aged man Iwazono when she is jogging. He tells her that he had a failed marriage which leaves him a ...

The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they ...

Nami is a nurse and the unwilling object of her patients’ lust. When she is hit by a car whilst fleeing from the home of her unfaithful ...

Jiro is a Tokyo man who offers a stand-in service where he’ll do “anything”. A woman claiming to be from Fukuoka wants to be ...

Three men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of ruthless ninja working for mysterious high ranking ...

A bored accountant spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, ...

A businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Kojima, on the subway. Kojima is working as a semiprofessional boxer. Tsuda soon begins to ...

A college senior, Shuhei, is blackmailed by a professor into joining the school’s sumo team. He is aided by a group of misfits who must ...

The Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a freak accident the year prior. When the other ...

A school was built on one of the Gates of Hell, behind which hordes of demons await the moment they will be free to roam the Earth. Hiruko is a ...

Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic ...

Framed for his family’s murder and left for dead, an ex-hitman will stop at nothing to exact revenge on the masked “demons” who ...

V-cinema classic about a wanted Brazilian Japanese gangster who flees to Tokyo and fights yakuza.

When feudal lord Itakura Katsuakira decides to prepare his samurai troops for the onslaught of modernization by having them compete in a ...

A fourth-grader investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his village, which is somehow related to a power ...

20 years after his escape from Impel Down, the legendary pirate Shiki, the Golden Lion, reappears causing massive upheaval to the Marines. During ...

As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then ...

Nostalgia is Takashi Miike’s favorite film of his considerable body of work. Including biographical elements, Nostalgia centers around the home ...

When the sadness of her father’s disappearance gets to Molly Hale, she unknowingly uses the Unown to create her own dream world along with ...

Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down ...