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In 2018, director Sakamoto was working on a script for his new movie "Baby Assassins." He learns of a hitman business network called "Kansai Hitman Association" and applies for interviews as a reference for writing scripts. He is introduced to Masayuki Kunioka, a freelancer who is known as the strongest hitman in Kyoto. Sakamoto decides to follow Kunioka in his day-to-day life. One day, Kunioka kills the wrong person due to miscommunication with the client and is targeted by both the hitmen sent from the furious client and those who are aiming for revenge on behalf of the victim.
A three-way battle of hoodlums vs yakuza vs gyoza factory manager! A fierce battleground in Osaka, where territories are fought over with impunity. There, a group of hoodlums, who are in good shape and gaining momentum, have launched a series of surprise attacks on the Yakuza.
Kota hears about an impending 1.5 billion yen gold bar heist from his friend Kitagawa, a former college classmate, and decides to take part. The gold bar sits in the basement of the HQ of Sumita Bank. Helping Kota and Kitagawa are bank security employee Noda, a North Korean spy pretending to be a college student, Kitagawa's younger brother Haruki and a former elevator engineer. These 6 men are about to carry the boldest of schemes to bypass the bank's high-tech defense system.
Kamagasaki is an "invisible" slum of Osaka that attracts day laborers and prostitutes since WW2. When the local gang has its treasured cauldron stolen, a war to find it begins involving the thugs, a 12 years old kid, a prostitute and a pickpocket, including the giant cauldron used to feed the destitute: The symbol of Kamagasaki.
Ordinary college students dropped by a strange village on the way to their camp. Persuaded by a seemingly friendly villager to stay over, but brutal killings start to occur in the following morning.
Haruo Sugimura is fresh from serving a two-year stint in prison for assaulting someone when he is recruited by a loan shark named Sakai to help collect money for a company called Minami Hachi Ban Kogyo, baesd in Osaka. Their rates are ruthless: 10% interest is added every 10 days. Their customers are desperate: a hostess who owes money to other loan sharks, a man made suicidal because his family don’t love him anymore. Haruo learns about the art of the loan shark as well as the dark side of peoples personalities.
One day, Chiho is asked to collect the rent from her grandmother, who has a bad leg. Chiho easily agrees and regrets it. The inhabitants of the flat are yakuza, host, robber, alcoholic, etc. They are all scum and they don’t pay the rent.
A crime film depicting the fall of a man who is entangled in a criminal organization and accustomed to violence and the vicious cycle of violence.
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Based on true accounts, a top insurance salesman inherits his father’s failing pachinko parlor and vows to become a “casino king,” rebuilding the business with bold, unconventional strategies.
In this deranged and unpredictable comedy, a passionate aficionado of bread stages a revolution against a tyrannical baker.
The Fukushima family is driven to collapse after the eldest, who has dementia arrives home with the corpse of a child.
The story is set in Abashiri, Hokkaido, and follows a high school student, Nagi, who transferred from Osaka.
Juzo Onigawara's ego is bigger than any other director's - and on the set of his latest film he is a rage storm incarnate, sweeping down everything and everyone: bottomless humiliation and physical violence in response to pretty much everything his crew does seem to effortlessly compensate for his lack of talent. But the real escalation sets in when he orders a young actress to his flat for evening "private lessons".
A documentary about the life of Rikiya Kaidou, who fulfilled his dream to become an actor in his 50s.
Kinjou, who has become disgusted with his job and the world itself, takes a hallucinogenic red capsule that allows him to meet the person he likes for a few minutes and escapes by seeing his wife, that died, every day.
