Akihiro Shimizu

A young reporter is covering the mysterious case of a child found dead with missing internal organs.

5.4/10

Based on the novel by Oniroku Dan.

After serving a term in prison because of shooting the leader of the rival group, Goro finds out that his fellow Yakuza Shiroyama, left the group and living as a normal people.

Aimi and her father move into an old, apartment building and learn quickly that things are not as they seem.

6.2/10

A yakuza war breaks out in a small peaceful town in the northern region of Kanto.

The organization lacking the jin that excommunicated the Kanto Ichienkai was no longer stopped, and there was a smell of kina. Chairman Sakai returns Hitoshi and Yoshiro and tries to balance the organization, but it is difficult due to the opposition of the board of directors. The one who hated the return of Jin and his friends most was Yaguchi, an emerging force who had risen to the board of directors while they were not there. However, Yaguchi also had a big fire inside the group.

Nostalgia is Takashi Miike’s favorite film of his considerable body of work. Including biographical elements, Nostalgia centers around the home and school of a young boy, whose family mix the violent and dysfunctional with the comic and the loveable. Though containing elements of the sudden and shocking brutality that many associate with this director, Young Thugs – Nostalgia is more concerned with a child’s moment of leaving the internalized world of fantasy, and passing on eagerly to the next stage of life. A wonderful, touching, startling vision that is uniquely Miike’s.

7/10

Maria is prisoner No. 206, serving a life sentence for murder. But she goes out from the prison as a hitwoman, because the government secretly uses her special skills to assassinate criminals that are beyond the reach of the law. Her next target is a man called Michael, who has been murdering Japanese women. He is the son of an ambassador...

A private detective called "Kiss Shiro", One day, he is shocked to see a rape video brought by his younger brother.

A Japanese direct-to-video horror film based in an original story by Go Nagai. It is the sequel to Nagai Go no Horror Gekijo: Mannequin, also produced by Taki Corporation and released in 1992.

During the Vietnam War era, the influx of American soldiers to Okinawa boosted the local economy and introduced many bars and nightclubs. With exhausting displays of energy, Sai presents a whirlwind romance between a local rocker and the daughter of a mixed American-Okinawan marriage.

8.1/10

Kanako returns from the USA to a troubled mother who witnessed a man leaving a murder scene and is consequently under persistent threat. For the time being.

5.2/10

While trying to search for her missing father, Atsuko Moriya (Noriko Watanabe) meets a group of outcasts that help her. Having only an encrypted disk in her possession and while being chased by unknown people, Atsuko tries to solve the mystery of her family origins...

5.1/10

The 8th All-Japan Road Race Championship. The internationally ranked A-level SUGO circuit is on the edge of its seat as the 500 cc final draws near. Akio Kitano and Keishi Ooki face off: private team versus factory team. In the final lap, Akio is overtaken by Ooki and loses by a hair. The reason for his defeat? The difference between their two machines. With their scores tied, the two wait for the next match to settle the score for good.

6.2/10

Ginshiro, threatened by poor repute and upcoming star Tachibana, forces his friend Yasu to marry Konatsu, Ginshiro's pregnant mistress; Yasu becomes a stuntman to make ends meet.

7/10

A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.

6.5/10

A high-school student rescues his baseball team. Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga "Dokaben".

6.2/10