Akaji Maro Movies

Correlated with Susan Sontag's theorization of kitsch as well as employing the queer lingo of "camp," this film's relentless equal opportunity...

Tomio, a college student, lives in a Western-style house where strange people live, such as his landlady Yukiko and her older brother Kishi, the...

Real pro wrestlers Mizuho Ishikawa, Cutie Suzuki and Emi Tojyo star alongside newcomer Miki Suzuki as the women tag teams, and they are managed...

The members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their hometown, they move from Shikoku to Tokyo and resume...

The thug is now back in Shaba as a legendary hitman!

An office worker who happens to end up helping a yakuza

A man is assaulted by someone with a bat and attempts to figure out why.

While shooting the horror film Ghost Master, Akira Kurosawa, an untalented assistant director, is struggling. Continuing with the film sends him into...

A five-part comedy and horror anthology

The life and death of the men who are bound by violence.

A Japanese boxer stages a dramatic and dangerous comeback after suffering brain damage in the ring.

Nursing home "Yuyoso". Many lonely old people live there, including botanist Taro Makiso, a physicist, an actor, a bar mom, and a chef. Maki has...

In 1974, during the height of the recession, a Japanese Korean family relocates to Tokyo to raise money and seek better treatment for their ill son.

The Naked Summer is a film that documents young artists' effort and growth while training and preparing for a performance of Butou that is praised...

Dark, cynical Japanese epic brought to U.S. in a dubbed version by shlockmeister Harry Novak. Still, this gory, sexy epic is made with style and...

Two brothers, Jinta and Wataru, are raised in a travelling circus. After an accident, Jinta decides to leave the circus and travels the countryside...

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's film "Gemini".

‘Many people have a preconception about butoh — that it is performed by dancers whose bodies are painted white. So when we debuted our...

People from Saitama Prefecture are persecuted and, because of this, they hide the fact that they are from there. In Tokyo, Momomi Hakuhodo is a male...