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Once upon a time, Yuri was one of Japan’s deadliest assassins, but she’s retired now and spends her days running an underground brothel. A news report about a former colleague who has died under mysterious circumstances doesn’t quite sit right. The dead man’s son is now the target of a military manhunt, and Yuri will do whatever it takes to keep him safe. 

A 13th century samurai finds himself shipwrecked on an island he believes to be deserted. As he contemplates his existence, it seems like a dignified death at his own hands might be his best solution. However, when he is captured by the murderous cannibal tribe that calls this island home, his survival instinct kicks in. Starring Shogen Ito and directed by Josh Waller (Raze, McCanick), Lone Samurai is existential action like you’ve never seen.
 

As famine and plague ravage 15th century Japan, the laconic shogun watches and does nothing to help his countrymen. Rebellious wanderer Hasuda Hyoe has seen enough and plots to depose the shogun and save Japan from self-imposed devastation. Starring Ôizumi Yô (I Am A Hero) as the heroic Hyoe, Samurai Fury pits this hero against his one-time friend Honekawa Doken, the iconic Shin'ichi Tsutsumi (Why Don’t You Play in Hell?) in a fight for survival.

From the legendary cult filmmaker Takashi Miike comes the story of Ikuto and Ryoma, troubled teens who meet in juvenile detention and make a plan to fight their way to freedom. Inspired by MMA fighter and Breaking Down founder Mikuru Asakura, the two boys make a plan to compete in Asakura’s popular tournament. When released, they discover that they’ll have to defeat their past outside the ring before they can be champions inside of it.

We’ve seen them fight, we’ve seen them chill, but in Baby Assassins 3, we see Chisato and Mahiro at the apex of their skills as they take on a brutally nihilist freelance killer who aims to take their place atop the assassin food chain. Director Sakamoto Yugo and action director Sonomura Kensuke are back with the most exciting and dangerous chapter in the Baby Assassins saga to date. This time, it’s a fight for their lives.

When college student Fumika stumbles upon the bullet that ended hitman Kudo’s life, his vengeful spirit takes hold of her body. Now possessed by a ruthless assassin’s rage and skills, she becomes an unstoppable force, hunting down those responsible for his death. As the body count rises, the line between Fumika and Kudo begins to blur. From the action director of Baby Assassins, One-Percent Warrior, and Bad City, Ghost Killer delivers a furious tale of supernatural revenge.

Shiraishi Kazuya directs this action epic where a group of small town cons are drafted to defend a fortress from government forces. When the officials who offered them freedom back off their promise, the rebels must fend for themselves.

After being suspended from their agency due to a rules violation, two highly skilled teenage assassins are forced to get “real” jobs to make ends meet. But while the elite duo is forbidden from executing targets or enemies under any circumstances, two aspiring rival hitmen decide to eliminate the competition while they’re vulnerable—leading to a lightning-fast showdown between trained killers.

After his devastatingly fast, samurai-style combat approach sets filmmakers against him, a legendary action star (Tak Sakaguchi) films his own movie—on turf claimed by feuding yakuza gangs, including Japan’s deadliest martial arts assassin.

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.

Two lifelong rivals unite to survive as their world erupts into war. Jun-shik (Jang Dong-gun) is a young Korean man who dreams of becoming a gold medalist runner. Tatsuo (Joe Odagiri) is Japan’s top marathoner. Sharing a strong sense of competition since their first childhood race, the two grow up to be the greatest of national rivals. A year after an unexpected incident sees Jun-shik forced into Japanese military service; destiny reunites him with Tatsuo, now a colonel in the Japanese army. Caught in the maelstrom of World War II, Jun-shik and Tatsuo wear the uniforms of Japan, the Soviet

Daigo doesn't speak anymore. Not since he killed that rabbit on the playground at school. His sister, Kiriko, is worried. He's bullied. He sleepwalks. And their father is no help, trapped in his grief and illustrating fantasy worlds where families are happily reunited, and no one dies.

They should never have gone to that 3D movie with the stuffed rabbit floating out of the screen. Now Daigo is missing. He's in danger, and Kiriko must follow him into a world of nightmares to discover the truth.

And the truth is worse than any dream.

From the legendary director of THE GRUDGE, Takashi Shimizu

Before the West entered World War II, a Japanese death cult called the Temple of Hades is ordered to aid in the spiritual destruction of China. Their method: abduct their enemies' children and train them as killers for the Emperor. Young Vajra was especially gifted, but swears a secret oath of revenge when his brother dies. 
Now the greatest assassin in the temple, Vajra escapes to China and begins his quest to protect the innocent, and destroy the ones responsible for making him a living weapon. 
A former Shaolin monk, martial arts action star Xing Yu (aka Shi Yanneng) stars as Vajra in his

A series of horrific murders just went viral, posted anonymously by the handsome and seductive Nomura (Kazuki Kitamura), a predator with a taste for torture. Thousands of miles away, disgraced journalist Bayu (Oka Antara) can’t stop watching – and, in a reckless moment, discovers he, too, can kill.

One man in Tokyo. One in Jakarta. A serial killer and a vigilante. As the posts multiply and the body count rises, a bizarre and psychotic rivalry begins – and the coming face-to-face showdown will paint the city in blood.

Takashi Miike’s ICHI THE KILLER has endured as one of the most influential pieces of genre filmmaking of the last two decades, and now it returns in a stunning all-new 4k restoration approved by Miike himself. This visceral, bloody, and often hilarious film follows Kakihara (Tadanobu Asano), a notoriously sadistic yakuza enforcer whose search for his boss’ killer brings him into the orbit of a demented costumed assassin known as Ichi (Nao Ōmori).

Set in the alternate Edo-period Japan, an alien race from outer space has invaded the country and taken control, forcing the once mighty Samurai to lay down their swords. Once feared as the “White Demon,” former samurai Gintoki Sakata works as an everyday handyman – until a master swordsman tasks Gintoki and his friends with finding a cursed sword to keep it from falling into the wrong hands. Packed with sword-swinging sci-fi action and offbeat humor, Gintama is a journey through a visually-stunning universe where fantastical action lurks around every corner.