Barefoot Gen / Barefoot Gen 2 (1983)

Director: Kazuo Oga

The powerful and tragic autobiographical story of manga artist Keiji Nakazawa, just six years old when an atomic bomb was dropped on his hometown of H... Read more

Tomie: Rebirth (2001)

Director: Takashi Shimizu

Starring: Miki Sakai, Kumiko Endo, Masaya Kikawada, Satoshi Tsumabuki

She's at it again! In this third installment of the series, based on the popular manga by Junji Ito, Tomie is modelling for an art student. Naturally... Read more

Takeshis' (2005)

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Kotomi Kyono, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi, Terajima Susumu, Tets...

Japanese film icon Beat Takeshi writes, directs, edits and stars as himself and his own doppelganger in this surreal, comic fantasy about a convenienc... Read more

Karas: Part 1 - The Prophecy (2006)

Director: Kei'ichi Sato, Akira Takata

A slick, supernatural sci-fi with shape-shifting warriors who previously protected humankind from another dimension, overlaid but unseen, on their own... Read more

Daredevil in the Castle (1961)

Director: Hiroshi Inagaki

Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa, Yuriko Hoshi, Yoshiko Kuga, Isuzu Yamada, Yosuke N...

Toshiro Mifune plays Mohei, a lone samurai wandering in despair after his family is wiped out. He arrives in Osaka and is taken in by the Toyotomi cl... Read more

Death Trance (2005)

Director: Yuji Shimomura

Starring: Tak Sakaguchi, Kentaro Seagal, Honoka Asada, Yoko Fujita

A genre-crossing, time-fusing, fantasy blockbuster from the action director of 'Versus' and starring Tak Sakaguchi as a nameless warrior who attacks a... Read more

Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)

Director: Ishiro Honda

Starring: Katsuhiko Sasaki, Akihiko Hirata, Tomoko Ai, Katsumasa Uchida

Aliens rebuild Mechagodzilla with the help of a demented scientist who has discovered a creature called Titanosaurus, which they intend to team up to... Read more

Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)

Director: Keisuke Kinoshita

Starring: Hideko Takamine

A beautifully made, sensitive drama about a teacher (Hideko Takamine) beginning her long career. As the years pass we follow not only her progress, b... Read more

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005)

Director: Zhang Yimou

Starring: Ken Takakura, Nakai Kiichi, Shinobu Terajima, Jiamin Li

Ken Takakura gives a career-defining performance as an old Chinese fisherman who has been estranged from his son for many years. When he receives a c... Read more

Full Metal Alchemist The Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa (2005)

Director: Seiji Mizushima

The long-awaited and thrilling epilogue to the ground-breaking anime series. It's Munich 1923, two years since Ed made the ultimate sacrifice that se... Read more