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Gengobe Satsuma, an exiled samurai cast out as an Asano clan retainer, is given a second chance to join his brothers in arms to become the 48th Ronin...
Demons
A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in...
Zigeunerweisen
Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day period...
Typhoon Club
A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles.
Boy
A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.
Death by Hanging
In 1960s Tokyo, Gonda owns a bar in which the gay, cross-dresser, and trans scenes meet. Gonda is in a relationship with the madam of the bar, Leda....
Funeral Parade of Roses
In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
A young girl is being asked about a man with whom she was keeping company, as her grandmother plays a lament on a shamisen. Then the focus changes to...
Tsugaru Folksong
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional...
The Ceremony
Two university students from Kyoto decide to swap partners and spend the night in an isolated motel. However, one of the couples is attacked....
Mandala
A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among...
Farewell to the Ark
A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural...
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense...
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan....
Double Suicide
An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.
Tattoo
A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as...
The Human Bullet
Third is an aimless young man who hangs around with a couple of girls who are amateur hookers. One day, while acting as their pimp, he gets into a...
Third Base
A young woman undergoes psychiatric treatment after she no longer hears music and develops sexual hang-ups.
Music
A married couple of abalone divers must confront ruthless investors taking over their coastline.
Mermaid Legend
When a man chases down his stolen movie camera, the thief commits suicide by jumping off a building. But after the police take the camera as...
The Man Who Left His Will on Film