A burns victim taken to an under-staffed, over-worked hospital is accidentally given a lethal injection, but the doctor in charge tells everyone to fo... Read more
Aka "The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi". The sightless Zatoichi - hero of over two dozen films from 1962 to 1989 - is revived by scripter/director/star Ta... Read more
Directed by Takashi Miike ("13 Assassins"), this remake of the 1962 film "Harakiri" relates the story of a mysterious samurai who arrives at the doors... Read more
A macabre, dead-pan comedy/drama chronicling the unlikely and all-too-brief romance that develops between two disparate loners. Kenji is a fastidious... Read more
AKA 'Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II'. In response to Japan's request for a countermeasure against Godzilla, UN engineers construct Mechagodzilla, a gia... Read more
Master filmmaker Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses) returns to the screen with this fascinatingly ambiguous tale of homoerotic desire and jeal... Read more
Another yakuza classic from maverick director Seijun Suzuki ('Tokyo Drifter', 'Branded to Kill') about a recently retired assassin who finds he made s... Read more
Filmmaker Takeshi Kitano looks to go, well, beyond his yakuza war opus "Outrage" in this lead-laden follow-up. A manipulative police crackdown on orga... Read more