Japanese Movies

Three stories converge in a brilliant and hilarious finale from SABU, the Japanese master of darkly humorous arthouse cinema.

This totally crazy cult musical about 80s boy-band mania from Japan teams up stars from the music and manga scene.

One of the few Pink Films produced by a woman, this movie combines Buddhist symbolism with the genres of adventure and samurai films.

Inspired by George Romero as well as The Ramones, this Japanese trash zombie rock 'n' roll film comes up with a surprisingly inclusive message.

In Shibuya, the neon-lit epicenter of Japanese youth culture, a lone perpetrator begins his orgy of violence against the ruling Yakuza.

To mark the 90th birthday of the legendary manga artist Osamu Tezuka, his son filmed the live-action version of his Manga, 'Barbara'.

Visually colorful, gritty in content, Japanese erotic revenge film by the master of the pink film genre, Kan Mukai.

This erotic comedy is both a critique of the Japanese family image and a sexually playful homage to Japanese director Ozu Yasujirô.

This style-setting iconic film by Japan's pink film movement offers an experimental mix of genres about gender roles, violence, and obsession.

„This film is not made for masturbation. It’s made for collective orgasm.“

Japanese arthouse gem from cult director Sabu, where good luck and bad luck are side by side. With Masatoshi Nagase (Paterson).

A mesmerizing poetic narrative about a group of teenagers navigating the confusing world of sexuality, desire, conformity and capitalism.

After five years of relationship, Shimi calls it quits with the young actor Mizuki. His initial acceptance of the break-up soon turns into defiance.

The crazy road trip of an even crazier Japanese family.

High school student Yuki's quiet life in a sleepy coastal town is shattered when her best friend Aya commits suicide.

An illegal immigrant from China is desperate for work in Japan. He pretends to be someone else to get a job at a traditional soba restaurant.

Lászlo, an aging film director, is in a creative crisis. His latest project has been cancelled so he joins his son's band on their tour to Japan.

More stylish than James Bond, BRANDED TO KILL made more waves than the Nouvelle Vague.

Four Japanese sisters find each other again after a stroke of fate.

While students protest in 1960s Tokyo, Toru Watanabe fights for his love.

In a distant future in which humanity is almost extinct, the android ID 722 Yoko Suzuki works as an interstellar parcel messenger.

In the performance-oriented Japanese metropolis of Tokyo, the loose Tetsuo keeps his head above water by shooting cheap soft porn.

A wacky spectacle of love, music and sex, a cross between a soft porn movie, a Japanese death cult and a musical, with music by Stereo Total.

Inspired by the true case of a Japanese serial killer, Cold Fish forms the second part in Sion Sono's hate trilogy.

A hitman on the run finds a safe haven thanks to his cooking skills.

The trials and tribulations of Eddie and other transvestites in the Tokyo gay scene of the late 1960s.

It was 15 years ago son Junpei drowned in a tragic accident. At the annualy festive gathering it becomes obvious that resentment and sorrow bonds this ...

A Japanese slacker comedy about the loveable Fuku, who is too shy to speak to women.

One of Japan's most talented maverick directors transforms a standard gangster film plot into a vehicle for his own loopy brand of filmmaking, featuring ...