L is recruited to save humanity from a deadly virus that wiped out a whole Thai village and his friend F. His opponents are K and a twisted environmental group who want to "cleanse" the world of it's excess population with the deadly virus. His accom...
The Tales of Terror 5 includes the most horrifying and sensational shorts inspired by true stories from all over Japan. Since its inception, the TV series has worked with masterminds of Japan horror such as Nirio Tszurata (Ring 0). Takashi Shimizue (...
An elementary school student hears of a creepy urban legend. A surreal game where your body's spirit is transported to another place to find a dead girl's missing thumb. If you find it before he candle goes out, your wish will be granted. But if some...
Akira Kurosawa's brilliantly conceived retelling of KING Lear Combines Japanese history and Shakespeare's plot with the director's own feelings about loyalty and betrayal. In 16th century Japan, the aging Lord Hidetora (Tatsuya Nakadai) passes the de...
When developers arrive to build a new dam, Shimokage Village is slated for destruction. Its residents perform their mysterious demon ritual for the last time, but something goes horribly wrong.. Soon afterwards, Masafumi Kobayashi, a TV journalist wi...
Teenager Midori's family moves back to the city where she lived as a child and is relieved to discover that her old friend Ryusuke still lives there. Her terrifying nightmares begin intersecting with her everyday life. Do her nightly dreams about...
This dorama is about a girl who was diagnosed with a disease called Spinocerebellar Degeneration when she was 15 years old, and was able to continue her life until her death at the age of 25 years old. The plot is based on the true story of a Japanes...
Masaya/s parents were separated when he was a small child. He became the center of his mother's world. He Studied and fooled around in Tokyo. One day after 15 years, he finds out his mother has cancer,Masaya hence invites her to lives with him in tok...
Masaya/s parents were separated when he was a small child. He became the center of his mother's world. He Studied and fooled around in Tokyo. One day after 15 years, he finds out his mother has cancer,Masaya hence invites her to lives with him in tok...
Luckily, having read (and loved) Ito's manga, the plot didn't confuse me so much, although some terrible liberties have been taken in rewriting it for the screenplay. Basically, the film revolves around a twenty-year-old girl, Izumisawa Tsukiko (Naka...
A month ago, a Japanese lady Uchida Asa came to Hong Kong hoping to look for a job in show biz. However, lady luck was not on her side. She was left stranded without a job.
The story follows a young lady named Yuki, and her father, who is a writer, as they move to Yamajima Island with her younger brother Hideo. The island has a stranger history (like the fact that it was an American burial ground before the war), and a ...
The Kanto region is experiencing mid-scale earthquakes one after another. Newspaper correspondent Kyoko Togakure (Haruka Igawa) visits a nursing home in the outskirts of Tokyo. She finds the dead body of a resident. It was an apparent suicide. He's h...
Akira director Otomo Katsuhiro presents his first live-action film in 15 years. Based on Urushibara Yuki's award-winning manga, Mushishi, a.k.a. Bugmaster, is a mellow, atmospheric, and enchanting period fantasy that smartly avoids the excesses of th...
In Japanese cultural tradition there are ghost known as ONRYOU, who are vengeful spirits that haunt the real world...This omnibus movie consists of five stories: "Guard" based on the survivor's true story. "Neck Hill", "That's what the undertaker Saw...
A competent detective, Keiko Kirishima, encounters two mysterious suicides. Somehow the two incidents seem to be connected since the victims dialed the same number with their cell phones just before their deaths. Then one the victims’ wife who ...
Raiko has been a best seller since her debut at a fairly young age. 10 years have passed, and she can't find meaning in writing any more, which puts her in agony. To overcome the slump, she moves out of town into a quiet village, as her editor sugges...
n "Tokyo-Ga" dokumentiert Wenders seine Reise nach Japan auf den Spuren des Regisseurs Yasujiro Ozu, der mit seinen Filmen als Chronist der sich verändernden japanischen Gesellschaft fungierte. Neben Wenders Freund Werner Herzog kommen auch die ...
If you're a "Tomie" fan you'll find something to like here. If you have no idea what "Tomie" even is, well, how the heck would you get here anyhow? Now that it's available in all its English subtitled glory, I'..
One of the Japanese Shinkansen "Bullet Trains" is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race to find the bombers and to learn how to defuse the bomb.
Yumiko Oosawa (Sachiko Kokubu) is a pretty young designer whose life is turned upside down by a stalker in Ataru Oikawa's spare, ominous thriller. One day, a letter arrives on which the words "you were meant to marry me" are spelled out in newspaper ...
An aging couple, Tomi and Sukichi, travels from their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling, post-war Tokyo. Their reception is disappointing: too busy to entertain them, their children send them off to a health spa. After Tom...
Knowing that he has only a month to live, a pianist goes back to his beloved ocean. He meets a girl with a broken leg, and soon finds that she is the daughter of his dearest love who had died many years ago. They spend day after day together, as they...
Satomi finds a newspaper foretelling his daughter's death. Three years later, with Satomi broken by her demise, another newspaper appears predicting doom. 影片讲述了一个家庭的未来被一家报社操纵的悲惨故事,报纸上所报道的有关这个家庭的不幸事件很快就会�...
A university professor. Ujo meets a very beautiful girl. Yui at a hospital where he is receiving treatment for alcohol dependency as an outpatient. Although the difference in their ages is more than 20 years. Yui takes a very strong liking to Ujo. Uj...
Yoshioka, an experienced police detective, investigates the murder of an unknown woman dressed in a red dress. She was killed by being drowned on the Tokyo waterfront, in a pool of muddy water, but an autopsy reveals that her belly is full of seawate...
The story takes reference to an event that occurred in Mizunashi during 1971, in which a lady called Yaeko Aonuma was killed in a train accident. 性格内向的高中生NANA和她的妹妹noriko在地铁站偶然遇见了noriko的朋友Takashi。Takashi在站台上拣到一个免费�...
ew horror film release from "Juon" director Takashi Shimizu. The year, 1970, eleven murders occur at a certain hotel in Gunma prefecture including the murder of a young girl. With his motives still unknown, the murderer himself then meets a mysteriou...
Cutie Honey (キューティーハニー, Kyūtī Hanī, also spelled Cutey Honey) is a Japanese media franchise created by Go Nagai. Cutie Honey first appears on volume 41 of the 1973 edition of Shōnen Champion. The titular character of Honey is considered ...
Sono Sion, the cult director of Suicide Club and Noriko's Dinner Table,continues to thrill and chill with his latest film Ekusute-Hair Extrensions (a,k,a, Exte- HairExtensions). The female long-haired spectre is. of course. a Japanese horror staple, ...
Originally a novel by Yamazaki Toyoko, and later a 1974 movie. The book depicts the conflicts within the Manpyo family, which is famous in Kansai's financial circles, amidst the tumultuous reorganisation of the financial industry of the late 1960s. U...
This story follows a young man named Makoto who lives in Ikebukuro West Gate Park, an area known for youth delinquency and gangs. In fact, one of Makoto's best friends from high school, Takeshi, is the "king" or leader, of one such gang, called the G...
In each of the three episodes, a different male is caught in Tomie's web of manipulation and madness. Each of the three, however, are tied together through the appearance of a strange, one-eyed man lurking about, apparently with a scheme to do away w...
“Kansen” is the first release in the J-Horror series, a 6-film package deal that was the brainchild of producer Takashige Ichise, who saw the sudden surge in popularity for Asian horror and decided to cash in. Ichise’s bright idea was to gather up...
Meatball Machine’s all-guns-blazing cavalcade of grotesqueries do not make for a passive filmgoing experience. Coming from a similar universe as Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo films, with surrealistic body-horror elements reminiscent of David Cronenberg...
Ishihara Satomi (Ns' Aoi,Kimi wa Petto) stars as a night clerk at convenience store who is so depressed she needs to face suicide on a regular basis. Sato Ryuta(Galcir, Pride,Kisarazu Cat's Eye) stars as the man who just might be able to save her fro...
A competent detective, Keiko Kirishima, encounters two mysterious suicides. Somehow the two incidents seem to be connected since the victims dialed the same number with their cell phones just before their deaths. Then one the victims’ wife who ...
Kyono, Yukiko, Naruse and Kuon were complete strangers until one day, when a bank clerk attempted to rob his won bank them in presence. It should have been simple enough for the man, but these four individuals weren’t just average Joes, they had ta...
The basic story of Limit of Love concerns a young couple, Daisuke Senzaki (Hideyaki Ito), and Kanna Izawa (Ai Kato). Daisuke works the coast guard in a small Japanese harbor, while Kanna pines for their marriage. Having long suffered the discomfort o...
Sekolah Seisen Gakuen merupakan sebuah sekoalh yang mempunyai nama buruk sejak duld lagi. Pada suatu hari, seorang pengintip dari pasukan polis telah diarahkan untuk menjalankan siasatan di dalam sekoalh tersebut malah telah dibunuh tanpa sebab. Sema...
Every day several Japanese tourists visit the cathedral of Antwerp in Flanders. In front of Rubens’ Descent from the cross they start to cry. Why? Nobody in Flanders has any idea that they are moved because of a tiny book written by Louise de La Ram...
The story is about He mountain villages in the Iraqi [ninja Hattori-jun] to meditate even to the modern Edo ......
故事讲述山深伊贺村落的[忍者Hattori君]为了修行,竟然来到现代的江户......
The story takes place in Japan during the Sengoku period, or the Warring States period. Forty-eight major demons, known as majins (lit. demon gods), sense the impending birth of a powerful human, who will grow up to be the vanquisher of demonkind...
A man sees his dead girlfriend through his digital camcorder.A nurse is able to save dying patients with her "life force". A woman visits her sister on a rainy night to celebrate her birthday, but finds a stranger in her house who may be a murderer ...
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Hiromi Okadecides to join the high school tennis club from the moment she saw the star player Reika's excellent and smashing play.However,once the tennis lesson began,Hiromi finds herself bored in the succession of smplr pratice swings.
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A remake of the 2004 hit horror movie of the same name,Chakushin Ari (One Missed Call) in which the "message of death " is spread througt the city via cellphones .Yumi the ex-student of Meiwa's Girls High School and Sendou,a dectective is b...