MEDIA & PRESS KITS

Each day Ichiko passes a gym where she watches a boxer silently practicing. The two make plans to see each other, and suddenly her life changes.

A private home nurse has her life shattered when the teenage daughter of her employer is kidnapped and it is revealed that her nephew is responsible.

When a typhoon strikes, a failed writer unexpectedly winds up spending the night together with his 11-year-old son, ex-wife and aging mother.

Shunji Iwai’s observant and mesmerizing teen saga, ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU, is a timeless coming-of-age story.

In 1930s Berlin, homosexual Max (Clive Owen) flees but is sent to the Dachau concentration camp.

Ono Masahiko is an unlucky gas station attendant who belongs to a losing junior baseball team. When the local yakuza threaten and capture his coach, he and a friend get more than they bargained for wh...

Acclaimed director Kazuya Shiraishi (Twisted Justice and The Blood of Wolves) goes full samurai in Bushido, an epic yet elegiac jidaigek.

In postwar Japan a neighborhood is nearly torn apart when a Korean gang tries to take over the local market until a tough doctor gets in their way.

Facing the final days of his prison sentence, Oida accepts a job to kill three men, only to find himself on a treacherous path of cold-blooded fate.

Cheng Liang works illegally in Japan at a soba restaurant and lives in constant fear of his real identity being discovered.

Yohei, a punk rocker, has to become a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Then his girlfriend shows up.

The phenomenal story of the transplant of American country music to post-World War II Japan.

Toshio sees his seemingly ordinary life take an ominous turn when a mysterious friend from his past arrives and slowly begins to disrupt his family.

A Tokyo family’s unassuming lifestyle is turned upside down by the increasingly bizarre antics of their strange new tenant.

Police investigators investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a young man who committed suicide under murky circumstances.

A case of stolen identity and one determined bride-to-be intersect in this comedic escapade from famed Japanese filmmaker Kenji Uchida.

Six strangers meet at a Japanese sex club. As first-timers and regulars collide, their attitudes towards sex and satisfaction are challenged.

Two best friends have spent the last fifteen years touring the country in their performance art punk band. When one of them decides to quit, they both face deeper challenges than expected.

Two young skaters team up to train for a figure skating duo, their growing bond blurring the lines between partners and more as winter unfolds.

When her English instructor John suddenly disappears from class, Setsuko follows his trail to California, where family ties and past lives are tested.

A yakuza melodrama, covering decades in the lives of Boss Onimasa, his adopted daughter Matsue, and his biological daughter Hanako.

Five years after surviving the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo now works in South Korea for Mr. Chang....

When Kaho and Tomoya announce their engagement at a celebratory dinner with friends, they are unprepared for the emotional turmoil that is unleashed.

A passionate writer for the visually impaired sees the world in a different light after meeting an older photographer who is losing his eyesight.

Wandering female gambler Oryu the Red Peony (Junko Fuji) rambles into town searching for her father’s killer on a blood-soaked quest for vengeance.

When Oryu is taken under the arm of the gang boss of a silk farming town and treachery leads to murder, it becomes her sworn duty to exact justice.

Oryu, the Red Peony Gambler, steps in on the side of righteousness when a rival gang tries to sabotage the Nishinomaru family's gambling competition.

Isao Natsuyagi stars as Kiba, a charismatic ronin who wanders into a small town and ends up ensnared in a local conflict that turns treacherous.

Hideo Gosha's two Samurai Wolf films in one complete set.

Kiba becomes entangled in a complex web of intrigue, involving a crooked goldmine owner, a cynical swordsman, and an arrogant dojo master.

Part thriller, sex comedy and gastronomy, this triptych follows follows three people, each possessing an irresistible culinary and carnal appetite.

A successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he begins to secretly take ballroom dance lessons.

After discovering a dead body floating in the sea, a sixteen-year-old and his girlfriend experience the interwoven cycles of life, death and love.

Chronicling the turmoil and pandemonium that ensues at a derelict university sumo club, and the rise of some unlikely heroes.

A rough, uncompromising film about a washed-up prostitute going through the hardships of life on the margins of society.

A man falls for a woman he saves at the train station and slowly becomes involved in a very dangerous relationship.

A high-powered attorney struggles to find the truth behind the enigmatic testimony of a murder suspect while questioning his own faith in the law.

An aging ferryman finds his peaceful, cyclical existence transformed in the name of progress when news arrives that a bridge is being built upstream.

A specially-priced collection of 3 early films by Japanese actor and auteur director, Takeshi Kitano.

Sold into prostitution to pay her father's debts, a Japanese courtesan goes on to run a Tokyo bordello.

A couple decide to adopt a baby after battling infertility. When the birth mother confronts them, they are forced to question their own parenthood.

After a cop (Beat Takeshi) is fired and his sister is kidnapped, he goes on a mission to get the kidnapper and his boss.

Trailed by the police, his lover, and many others, Takashi becomes the target of a manhunt filled with twists, double-crosses and explosive action.

A retired yakuza underboss is pulled back into a life of crime after getting caught in the middle of a conflict between two rival clans.

Seeking a rumored treasure, Yosuke travels to a remote seaside village where he becomes enamored with an unusual woman with a unique sexual condition.

Acclaimed director Ryusuke Hamaguchi returns with an enchanting triptych that spins mundane encounters into a world of infinite possibilities.

Three brothers find themselves pitted against each other in the Yakuza underworld as rival gangs unleash a nightmare of unbridled violence.