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An American journalist travels through 19th-century Japan to find the prostitute he fell in love with but instead learns of the physical and existential horror that befell her after he left.
In a futuristic Tokyo where police have been privatized and bitter self-mutilation is so casual that advertising is often specially geared to the 'cutter' demographic, Ruka is on a mission to avenge her father's assassination. Ruka is a cop from a squad whose goal is to destroy homicidal mutant humans known as 'engineers', that possess the ability to transform any injury to a weapon in and of itself.
Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants desperately to abandon his post… but his once-enviable position of power has a strange way of making him feel powerless.
A young boy with a troubled home life becomes "chosen," and he stumbles into the middle of a great war of yōkai (a class of mythological creatures), where he meets a group of friendly yōkai who become his companions through his journey. Now he must fight to protect his friends and free the world of the yōkai from oppression.
A medieval Book of the Dead is discovered in the catacombs that run under a small town strip club. When one of the desperate strippers raises an army of the undead, the rest of the strippers must kick some zombie ass to save the world.
The hit series “Super Scary Stories,” which has been made into a film many times in Takeshobo's original horror collection, is now available as a TV drama. The series has recorded unprecedented viewer ratings for a late-night horror drama due to its overly realistic setting.
A post-apocalyptic humankind in 2025 finds a hero in the form of Zebraman. But the Zebra Queen steals his powers, making him lose his ability to survive Zebra Time. But he wants his powers back.
After discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track down the key of the universe, which a fellow prisoner known as the Counterfeit King said he had hidden.
The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.
Rosuke, a monk, has gone missing. His lover, Nonoka, takes the assassin Shinno to a religious temple in search of Rosuke. There, they meet a sorcerer called Hanzo. Meanwhile, Rosuke is on a spaceship heading to the unknown planet named Kelman, in another dimension. There, he meets a strange old man. And then, a metaphysical battle.
A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly": find a bug with the power to bring humans back from the dead, in order to report on the afterlife. With his trusty companion Endo in tow, he sets off on a quest for the elusive insect and along the way meets the mysterious Sayoko, a former dominatrix and habitual wrist-cutter who delights in rubbing wasabi into her wounds.
An erotic drama depicting a married woman who becomes addicted to adultery. Akie's husband is having an affair, but she tolerates it because she feels guilty about not being able to have children. However, feeling lonely because her husband doesn't pay attention to her, Akie has a one-time affair with a man who works in the scrap metal business, and becomes addicted to the affair...
Kamiya, a surgeon forced to take responsibility for a medical error, imprisons Keiko, the daughter of the hospital's director. He subjects her to masochistic games. Before long, a strange affection begins to blossom between the two of them.
Chibashin (Atsushi Hashimoto) is a young man who stays home all the time playing video games. One day, his elementary school classmate and former best friend, Nagachin (Yu Inaba), shows up to return a game he borrowed. He approaches Chibashin with a bizarre request: "I'm dead, so I want you to go find my body." And so begins the two's strange journey.
The punk shop run by single mother Mahir (Yoko Yazawa) is full of crazy customers. Her ex-husband who always comes to Mahir for money with her crazy head. She is a high school girl who fell in love with a yakuza. SM girl who hates her father. Mahir looks at her clothes that suit her, singing rock with her extraordinary affection to her souls who have nowhere to go. She is a rock confronting the human ego and stagnation. A rock movie that challenges the fight with laughter in a rotten world is now being dropped!
They’ve been drifting under one roof so long their hearts beat in half-hearted rhythm—he, a rugged chauffeur to the city’s most tempting “delivery health” sirens, and she, the depraved lunch-box artisan whose nimble fingers filled with quiet dedication. Yet fate tempts them both: he spends his days behind the wheel as a driver for high-end “delivery health” escorts, ferrying women who promise discreet thrills to private rooms, while at dawn she catches the gaze of a handsome regular at the bento counter, unleashing waves of longing so electric they could ignite the very air. The married couple are at a crossroad, their shared flat will feel too small to contain the wild forbidden desire roaring in the air.
Based on the Japanese legend of 15th century adventurer, Oguri Hangan Daisukeshige, Toyoda places us in a surreal world of tattooed Japanese slave workers whose real life roles serve more as symbols than actual characters. After being hired by a local despot, Daizen, to massage away a nasty venereal disease, Oguri is viley betrayed after refusing to stay longer.
Parody of the famous manga/anime "Cutie Honey".
A married Japanese man living in the country agrees to meet with an ex-lover in Tokyo, leading him to question his life choices.
There are many different kinds of lives in this world. When everyone is gone only the afterimage remains.Ai has only recently came to Tokyo. In this unfamiliar city she is a little bit upset. One day lead by a mysterious stray dog she finds a letter inside a hole in the tree trunk. Tomohiro who works night hours at a nursery hadleft it there. Ai being encouraged by this letter writes a letter back and leaves it in the hole. This was the beginning of their strange correspondence.
Yumiko lives with her son and former boxer Keigo, and is on good terms with her neighbor Ryoko. Ryoko is having an affair with aspiring novelist Mukai, but it seems to be approved by her husband. One day, by chance, Yumiko and Mukai end up having sex...
Four different worlds are connected through the "Baumkuchen Seeds of Happiness." The World of the Kawanobe's - Three brothers, Taro (Mame Yamada), Jiro (Hiroshi Yamamoto), and Hiroto (Shoichi Honda) who is a so-called NEET (short for "Not in Employment, Education, or Training) make up the Kawanobe household. The World of a Bar - Two men (Mame Yamada and Hiroshi Yamamoto) sits in a bar and discusses the Kawanobe brothers' love story. The World of Yumi - Yumi is reading a novel about the characters in the bar. The World of a Novelist - Novelist Masatoshi (Shoichi Honda) is writing a novel about Yumi. In their own worlds, in their own way, each character will find a way to arrive at their happiness.
Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" goes goth in Mari Terashima's screen adaptation of the children's classic. Terashima brings together Goth Loli performance troupe Rose de Reficul et Guiggles, doll maker Mari Shimizu and magician and actor Mame Yamada to create a macabre trip down the rabbit hole. The film appears animated, but the gothic characters are as real as can be.
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Shiro works a dead-end job cleaning the homes of the recently deceased. But when he stumbles onto the residence of his childhood idol, the great Detective Jubei Yagyu, Shiro’s life changes forever. With the help of his trusty partner Mio, Shiro is determined to honor the legacy of his fallen hero by becoming a great detective... if only somebody had a case!
This original work is by Andrew Shin, who made his directorial debut with "The Rabbit in the Night Sky" while working as a composer. Set in the fantastical worldview that is characteristic of Shin's works, the story explores the nature of our finite lives. A young girl returns home after being released from hospital. There is an invisible wall between her and her father, and for some reason, she is terrified of finding mirrors. Soon, strange events begin to occur around the girl, and after she runs away from home, a mysterious woman appears before her... (MTL of eigacom overview)
