The Valiant Red Peony

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.

An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

Shuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that his loan shark brother, who had helped to finance his films, has been executed by his own yakuza gang f

To avoid a death sentence for her prior acts of bloodshed, the vengeful swordswoman Lady Snowblood is conscripted by the Japanese Secret Police to assassinate political dissidents.

Yuko, a teacher of middle-school, is shattered to see her four-year-old daughter dead. She returns back to the school and finds out that her students are responsible for her daughter's murder.

The son of a murder crime boss exacts his revenge by pitting two rival clans against each other.

Aoyagi meets an old friend and ends up framed for the murder of the prime minister.

Akiko (Masami Nagasawa) is a single mother and her son is Shuhei (Sho Gunji). Akiko casually has sex with other men, including Ryo (Sadao Abe). Akiko is the only person whom Shuhei can rely on. One da

One day, Frances Austen, a rich but lonely woman, invites a young man from a nearby park to her apartment and offers to let him stay there--and has no intention of ever letting him leave.

The elderly Senzô Tôyama orders his employee, Makoto Katagiri, to kidnap and train his wife Shizuko in order to break her pride so that she will submit to his desires.