In The Realm Of The Senses (1976)

Director: Nagisa Oshima

Starring: Aio Nakajima, Eiko Matsuda, Tatsuya Fuji

Tells of the bizarre true-to-life love affair between a gangster and a prostitute in 1930s Japan. Highlighted by lush visuals and graphic sex, as well... Read more

Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959)

Director: Alain Resnais

Starring: Emmanuele Riva, Eiji Okuda, Stella Dassas

Alain Resnais has created a magnificent mood piece in his telling of the unique love story of a French cinema actress and a Japanese architect who mee... Read more

Seven Samurai (1954)

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Starring: Yoshio Inaba, Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura

One of the most beloved movie epics of all time, Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhab... Read more

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Director: Mamoru Oshii

In early 21st century Japan, the search for a criminal computer genius known as 'The Puppet Master' sends a cyborg policewoman on a dangerous search,... Read more

Akira (1988)

Director: Katsuhiro Otomo

Starring: Voices Of, Lewis Lemay, Jimmy Flanders, Drew Thomas

Groundbreaking Japanese animated epic set in the post-WWIII metropolis of Neo-Tokyo. The labyrinthine plot revolves around a battle between oppressive... Read more

Ikiru (1952)

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Starring: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki

A brilliant study of a man who finds he is dying of cancer and determines to spend his final months giving meaning to his life by constructing a child... Read more

Sonatine (1993)

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Starring: Aya Kokumai, Takeshi Kitano, Tetsu Watanabe

'Beat' Takeshi Kitano stars in this very original tale of the last days of a Tokyo gangster. Hard action combines brilliantly with haunting stillness. Read more

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

Director: Shinya Tsukamoto

Starring: Kei Fujiwara, Shinya Tsukamoto, Tomoroh Taguchi

Compared to the work of Lynch and Cronenberg, telling the strange tale of a man's gradual metamorphosis into a synergy of flesh and metal. Tomoroh Tag... Read more

The Eel (1997)

Director: Shohei Imamura

Starring: Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baisho

Winner of the 1997 Cannes Palme d'Or and from the director of "The Ballad of Narayama", (also a Palme d'Or winner) comes this wonderful offering about... Read more

Ran (Blu-ray) (1985)

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu

A Kurosawa masterpiece, a decade-in-the-making version of 'King Lear' that brilliantly blends Japanese history with Shakespeare's themes. A triumphant... Read more