Monkey: Season 2, Episodes 27-39 (1979)

Director: Yusuke Watanabe

Starring: Masaaki Sakai, Masako Natsume, Tonpei Hidari, Shiro Kishibe

Recount the exploits of the resourceful, brave and humourous Monkey, as he continues to escort Tripitaka, the pig monster Pigsy and the water monster... Read more

Monkey: Season 2, Episodes 40-52 (1980)

Director: Yusuke Watanabe

Starring: Masaaki Sakai, Masako Natsume, Tonpei Hidari, Shiro Kishibe

Season two of this classic cult series continues with 12 more surreal Kung Fu adventures featuring Monkey, Horse, Pigsy and Tripitaka. Episodes inclu... Read more

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)

Director: Mikio Naruse

Starring: Hideko Takamine

A delicate, devastating study of a woman's life, a Ginza barmaid who fears that, as she faces her 30th birthday and the loss of her job, she will have... Read more

Berserk: The Series (1997)

Director: Naohito Takahashi

Gattsu, known as the Black Swordsman, seeks sanctuary from the demonic forces that pursue him and his woman, and also vengeance against the man who br... Read more

Tezuka: The Experimental Films (2007)

Director: Osamu Tezuka

Often considered the father of anime, and the Japanese equivalent to Walt Disney, Osamu Tezuka created such iconic animated characters as Astro Boy an... Read more

Youth of the Beast (1963)

Director: Seijun Suzuki

Starring: Joe Shishido

Unique Japanese filmmaker Seijun Suzuki helms this audacious wild ride into the world of 1960s Japanese Yakuza. Police detective Jo Shishido winds up... Read more

Samurai Pirate (1963)

Director: Senkichi Taniguchi

Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Tadao Nakamaru, Mie Hama, Kumi Mizuno, Ichiro Arishima

In this Japanese adventure, a brave sailor (Toshiro Mifune) called Sinbad (in the English version) is shipwrecked in a strange part of the world and f... Read more

The Mysterians (1957)

Director: Ishiro Honda

Starring: Momoko Kochi, Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura, Sus...

'They've come to take our women!' Centuries after the destruction of their planet, the titular aliens land on Earth, install an impregnable dome by a... Read more

Samurai Commando: Mission 1549 (2005)

Director: Masaaki Tezuka

Starring: Yosuke Eguchi, Kyoka Suzuki, Takeshi Kaga

When a modern-day military unit is accidentally sent back to feudal Japan, history changes and the present begins to unravel in this re-telling of the... Read more

Assassination ( aka Ansatsu ) (1964)

Director: Masahiro Shinoda

Starring: Shima Iwashita, Tetsuro Tamba, Eiji Okuda, Keiji Sada, Eitaro Ozawa

Based on the novel by Ryotaro Shiba, this samurai classic from director Masahiro Shinoda begins in the waning years of the Tokugawa Shogunate. As Ame... Read more