Shôhei Imamura

Sadako, cursed by generations before her and neglected by her common-law husband, falls prey to a brutal home intruder. But rather than become a ...

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry “Ee ja nai ka” (“Why not?”) in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in ...

An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but the children have little time for them. Release: Tokyo Story 1953 ...

A newly unemployed salaryman meets a particularly sexual woman. Release: Warm Water Under a Red Bridge 2001 Japanese DVDRip x264 AC3 WahDee ...

Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his ...

The award-winning director of such esteemed films as Black Rain and The Ballad of Narayama has chosen here to tell the decidedly dicey true tale ...

Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. In the film all three daughters ...

Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a ...

This Japanese comedy is bookended by Frank Nagai’s title song, and Nagai keeps cropping up throughout the film – even appearing in a ...

Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill. ...

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone ...

The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse’s novel.

By going to the Philippines, Imamura comes to meet people living in an extreme poverty. He discovers very quickly that some communities are under ...

A rumbunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows. Release: Stolen ...

A Man Vanishes examines the concept of Johatsu, tackling the phenomenon of people missing in Japan over the years. It picks one such person from ...

A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job ...

White-collar worker Yamashita finds out that his wife has a lover visiting her when he’s away, suddenly returns home and kills her. After ...

When she was a little girl, Wakako Kyoguku’s portrait was painted by a talented young artist. Years later, she takes it to an art gallery ...

In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his ...

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together. ...