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The Eel (1997)

7.4/10
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

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)

6.9/10
Director: Shohei Imamura
Starring: Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu

Giving a touch of Asian-flavoured 'magic realism' to a premise that almost sounds like adult cinema, Japanese filmmaker Shohei Imamura ('The Eel') tel... Read more

Vengeance Is Mine (Blu-ray) (1979)

7.8/10
Director: Shohei Imamura
Starring: Ken Ogata, Rentaro Mikuni

Iwao Enokizu is a middle-aged man who has an unexplainable urge to commit insane and violent murders. Eventually he is chased by the police all over J... Read more

Pigs & Battleships (1961)

Director: Shohei Imamura

A young hoodlum decides to work for a criminal organization that is tearing itself apart. Read more

Ballad of Narayama (1983)

7.9/10
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

Pigs & Battleships (Blu-ray) (1961)

Director: Shohei Imamura

A young hoodlum decides to work for a criminal organization that is tearing itself apart. Read more

Dr Akagi ( Aka Kanzo Sensei ) (1998)

7.4/10
Director: Shohei Imamura
Starring: Misa Shimizu, Jacques Gamblin, Kumiko Aso, Akira Emoto

Dr. Akagi, a rural physician in Japan at the end of WWII, wages a one-man crusade against hepetitis, earning him a reputation as "Dr. Liver." But his... Read more

Vengeance Is Mine (1979)

7.8/10
Director: Shohei Imamura
Starring: Ken Ogata, Rentaro Mikuni

Iwao Enokizu is a middle-aged man who has an unexplainable urge to commit insane and violent murders. Eventually he is chased by the police all over J... Read more

Black Rain (1989)

6.7/10
Director: Shohei Imamura

The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel. Read more

11'09"01 - September 11 (2002)

Director: Claude Lelouch, Idrissa Ouedrago, Ken Loach, Mira Nair, Samira Makhmalbaf, Sean Penn, Shohei Imamura, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Danis Tanovic, Amos Gitai, Youssef Chahine

This film is a unique and extraordinary response to the catastrophic events in New York City that shook the world on September 11, 2001. Producer Alai... Read more