Japanese

After a mother (Ando Sakura) discovers that a teacher’s bullying is behind her young son’s sudden strange behavior, she storms into his school demanding an explanation. Continually left without satisfactory answers—and with an increasingly distressed child—she furiously escalates her concerns to the school board and the media. But as the story unfolds through the multilayered perspectives of mother, teacher, and child, the real truth gradually emerges—and proves much more complex than anyone could have expected.

Long plagued by poverty and crime, Kaiko City has been torn apart by rampant corruption and growing violence between the local Yakuza faction and a notorious Korean crime boss. But when a mafia-connected businessman runs for mayor and begins systematically eliminating his opponents, a former police captain imprisoned for a brutal murder is released in a final desperate effort to reclaim the city.

Upon graduation, highly trained teenage assassins Chisato and Mahiro are informed by upper management that they will need to hold down “normal” jobs as a cover, and—even worse—they’ll be forced to share an apartment. However, after an unfortunate run-in with a Yakuza member, the two must band together to survive an epic fight for their lives.

In the Nakameguro area of Tokyo is Hydra, a bar run by a young woman named Rina. Working in the kitchen is the stoic, tough-as-nails Takashi. Unknown to Rina, Takashi is an assassin for a secret organization that eliminates people threatening society’s well-being. Takashi joined the staff at Hydra to watch over Rina, a promise he made to her dying father. However, Takashi has been targeted by a criminal group, with Rina seen as their key to ridding themselves of Takashi and the vigilante organization as they strive to unleash an unstoppable underworld syndicate the likes of which Japan has

Based on the 2015 manga series "Archimedes no Taisen," this dramatized retelling of the behind-the-scenes struggles of the Japanese Navy while building the Yamato, the largest battleship in the world, before WWII. The film is produced by TOHO (Godzilla, My Hero Academia), directed by Takashi Yamazaki (The Eternal Zero), and stars Suda Masaki (Drowning Love), Emoto Tasuku (And Your Bird Can Sing), and Hamabe Minami (The Promised Neverland).

When a master samurai arrives to duel the disgraced Yoshioka dojo, he walks into an ambush. In the world’s first 77-minute, one-take action film sequence, Miyamoto Musashi (Tak Sakaguchi) fights for his life against 400 warriors, earning a place in history as the Crazy Samurai Musashi.

Acclaimed filmmaker Bernard Rose has created a stunning visual feast complemented by a haunting score from iconic composer Philip Glass. Inspired by a race still held annually in Japan, SAMURAI MARATHON is a lively action flick with a samurai twist. In late feudal Japan, a young ninja (Satoh) operates undercover in the court of an aging lord and his rebellious daughter. When the lord challenges his lazy samurai to a punishing marathon—joined covertly by Princess Yuki—the ninja finds his loyalties tested. Facing impossible odds, this unusual band of characters runs a race to either win or die.

FIRST LOVE is an action-packed yakuza film by acclaimed Japanese director Takashi Miike.
Set over one night in Tokyo, we follow Leo, a young boxer down on his luck as he meets his ‘first love’ Monica, a call-girl and an addict but still innocent. But, little does Leo know, Monica is unwittingly caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme, and the two are pursued through the night by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, his nemesis, and a female assassin sent by the Chinese Triads. All their fates intertwine in spectacular Miike style, at his most fun and anarchic.