Outlaw Cop
A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the…
Youth – Part II
Isamu, a star athlete in high school, becomes a race cyclist. He wins his debut races, but soon his opponents see through his lack of strategy and beat him easily….
Violent Streets
With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a world of violence.
Virgin Blues
A young woman fails her university entrance exam and starts shoplifting.
Double Bed
Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend Yamazaki who he knew since college. Yamazaki has…
Lady Snowblood
Yuki’s family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive….
The Island Closest to Heaven
A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled “island closest to heaven” that her late father had told her about.
School in the Crosshairs
Mitamura Yuka is a normal, shy high school student. Except for the fact that she has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to show her skills,…
Haruka, Nostalgia
Ayase Shinsuke, a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up in. He meets a strange boy who calls himself by the author’s…
The Second Love
Kazumi – whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband’s emotional conflicts with the wisdom of an adult. Kazumi’s younger and more inexperienced husband Hideo…
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
Obayashi’s take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the…