Japan Movies

The Bad Sleep Well
In this loose adaptation of “Hamlet,” illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At…

Warning from Space
The citizens of Tokyo panic when they see UFOs in the sky. The aliens are benign, however, and have come to warn of a runaway planetoid known as Planet R…

Somebody’s Xylophone

Monster Hunter
A portal transports Cpt. Artemis and an elite unit of soldiers to a strange world where powerful monsters rule with deadly ferocity. Faced with relentless danger, the team encounters a…

GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka
Tohru Fujisawa’s popular manga about a wildly irreverent high school teacher comes to the screen in this live-action comedy drama. Eikichi Onizuka (Takashi Sorimachi), who barely earned his teaching degree…

Only on Mondays

Jirocho Fuji

Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

For Whom the Alchemist Exists
Set in the continent of Babel, where the Tower of Babel looms large over seven nations. After the invention of alchemy led to its use as a tool of war…

Like Grains of Sand

Eyes On Me

Prospero’s Books
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling…

Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog

Secret Chronicle: She Beast Market

Chizuko’s Younger Sister

Fist of the North Star
After a nuclear holocaust tears the world apart, mankind is forced to the harshness of not only the oppression of others who are much more powerful, but the dead earth…

The World of Kanako
When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his investigation progresses, his idealized image of…

Eight Ranger

The White Diamond
This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to design and test a unique airship during its maiden flight above the jungle canopy.

Karate-Robo Zaborgar
An evil criminal organisation called Sigma kidnap prominment business leaders to harvest their DNA and only Karate-Robo Zaborgar can save them.

Grand Blue

Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
After nearly half a century of peace, Godzilla has become a distant memory for most of Japan. Decades later the destruction of a US nuclear submarine signifies the possible return…

Buddha

Love and Action in Osaka

Lock-On Love
An endearingly inept guy who has killer looks but zero experience with girls falls in love with a hard-to-get beauty.

Yakuza Ladies: Decision
Kasuga’s husband gets arrested for a murder of his beloved protégé. She and her family investigate and find out he was trapped by greedy Nagoshi, the boss of their rival…

Snow Prince

Japan’s Longest Day
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the…