Renji Ishibashi

Ryu, a low life thug, along with his mother, steals a shipment of drugs. Now with his machine gun and a gang of hoodlums, he must face the yakuza ...

In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work

Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother’s grief from beyond the grave.

Wada, a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After his arrival, Wada encounters a violent, yet ...

Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the second is a ghost story about a ...

The indolent son of an oil vendor becomes a regular customer of a prostitute, racks up a mountain of debt, and is disowned by his parents.

A “metal fetishist”, driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he’s made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into ...

Junko Miyashita plays a mysterious hitchhiker picked up by a brute of a construction worker named Kenzo who takes her back to his run-down and ...

With most of his family already dead at Ogami Itto’s hands, Retsudo launches one final plot to destroy him, and when that fails, unleashes ...

Two rogue vagrants make their living as “manure men”, turning the waste from the tenement toilets into fertiliser sold to local ...

Daily, Rika Umezawa battles a nagging sense of emptiness and dissatisfaction. She works a tiring job, comes home to an unappreciative husband and ...

A widower and his daughter deal with the death of the man’s wife.

In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and ...

The wealthy president of a company has built up an unpayable debt to a local crime lord, and to escape punishment he sells his famous dancer wife ...

Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is ...

A woman believing to be a legendary immortal nun attracts people looking for answers to their life struggles.

Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes ...

A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later.

An accidental shooting on the job and a recent divorce take a toll on the personal and professional life of a Japanese detective. Just as it ...

Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his ...