Barefoot Gen / Barefoot Gen 2 (1983)

Director: Kazuo Oga

The powerful and tragic autobiographical story of manga artist Keiji Nakazawa, just six years old when an atomic bomb was dropped on his hometown of H... Read more

Ballad of Narayama (1958)

Director: Keisuke Kinoshita

Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yuko Mochizuki, Danko Ichikawa, Keiko Ogasawara

Based on the novel by Shichiro Fukazawa, and recounting an ancient Japanese custom whereby, in times of hardship, the young inhabitants of a remote vi... Read more

Ballad of Narayama (1983)

Director: Shohei Imamura

Starring: Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto

In a small 19th-century Japanese village, residents who reach the age of 70 are banished to the top of Mt. Narayama to die so that they don't become a... Read more

Babel ( Blu-ray ) (2006)

Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Starring: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Mohamed Akhzam, Peter Wight, Harriet Walter, Trevor M...

The director of '21 Grams' has loosley weaved together four stories from three conitinents in this powerful drama about cultural barriers. Brad Pitt a... Read more

Babel (2006)

Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Starring: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Mohamed Akhzam, Peter Wight, Harriet Walter, Trevor M...

The director of '21 Grams' has loosley weaved together four stories from three conitinents in this powerful drama about cultural barriers. Brad Pitt... Read more

Azumi 2: Death or Love (2005)

Director: Shusuke Kaneko

Starring: Aya Ueto, Yuma Ishigaki, Chiaki Kuriyama, Shun Oguri, Kazuki Kitamura

Continuing the adventures of diminutive sword-slinging assassin Azumi (Aya Ueto), now on the run with her fellow killer Nagara (Yuma Ishigaki) and bei... Read more

Azumi (2003)

Director: Ryuhei Kitamura

Starring: Aya Ueto, Jo Odagiri, Aya Okamoto, Kenji Kohashi, Hiroki Narimiya

Set in feudal Japan, "Azumi" is an anime come to life. Azumi is a part of an elite group of assassins - raised from birth to carry out deadly missions... Read more

Avalon (2001)

Director: Mamoru Oshii

Starring: Malgorzata Foremniak, Wladyslaw Kowalski

Anime master Mamoru Oshii's ("Ghost in the Shell") live-action feature directorial debut is a mesmerizing sci-fi tale set in a future world where peop... Read more

Audition (2000)

Director: Takashi Miike

Starring: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Jun Kunimura

Extreme drama from rebel Japanese director Miike Takashi tells of Aoyama, a lonely widower owner of a video production company, who joins forces with... Read more

Attack on Titan: Collection 2 (2013)

Eren Jaeger vowed to rid mankind of the bloodthirsty giants who devoured his mother and destroyed his city. Now, after discovering that he has the abi... Read more