Ohayo ( aka Good Morning ) (1959)

Director: Yasujiro Ozu

Starring: Chishu Ryu, Koji Shidara, Haruko Sugimura, Kuniko Miyake, Yoshiko Kuga, Masahiko...

Ozu's hilarious Technicolor reworking of his silent "I Was Born, But...", "Ohayo" ("Good Morning") is the story of two young boys in suburban Tokyo wh... Read more

Late Spring (1949)

Director: Yasujiro Ozu

Starring: Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, Yumeji Tsukioka

One of the most powerful of Yasujiro Ozu's family portraits, "Late Spring" tells the story of a widowed father who feels compelled to marry off his be... Read more

Blindness (2008)

Director: Fernando Meirelles

Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore, Alice Braga, Yusuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura, Don McK...

A big city falls prey to a mysterious plague of blindness in Fernando Meirelles' ('City of God'; 'The Constant Gardener') adaptation of Jose Saramago'... Read more

The Machine Girl (2008)

Director: Noboru Iguchi

Starring: Minase Yashiro, Asami , Kentaro Shimazu, Honoka , Nobuhiro Nishihara

When gangsters murder her brother, and hack off her left arm, sweet Japanese schoolgirl Ami takes matters into her own...er, hand, and gets her stump... Read more

Naruto the Movie 3: Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom (2006)

Director: Toshiyuki Tsuru

Naruto, Sakura and Kakashi team up with Rock Lee to protect Prince Michiru and his son Hikaru on their return home to the Crescent Moon Kingdom. Easy... Read more

Death Note: Volume 9 (2007)

Volume 9 of 9. Episodes 33-37. Near gains another ally when Aizawa of the task force discovers Light's treachery. Light's own disciples are hard at wo... Read more

Maiko Haaaan!!! (2007)

Director: Nobuo Mizuta

Starring: Sadao Abe

A charming farce, based on the Japanese manga, that centers on a salaryman (Sadao Abe) who pursues his dream of courting an apprentice geisha. After b... Read more

Alone Across the Pacific (1963)

Director: Kon Ichikawa

Starring: Yujiro Ishihara

Director Kon Ichikawa's ('An Actor's Revenge', 'The Burmese Harp') incredible real-life tale of one man's epic journey across the Pacific Ocean is bas... Read more

Tokyo Zombie (2005)

Director: Sakichi Sato

Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Sho Aikawa, Erika Okuda, Arata Furuta, Hina Matsuoka

Tokyo's future is overshadowed by a looming mountain of garbage, a stinking blot on the landscape where everything from toasters to cars to corpses ar... Read more

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)

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