Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II (1993)

Director: Takao Okawara

Starring: Masahiro Takashima, Megumi Odaka, Ryoko Sano

AKA 'Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II'. In response to Japan's request for a countermeasure against Godzilla, UN engineers construct Mechagodzilla, a gia... Read more

Tomie (1999)

Director: Ataru Oikawa

Starring: Miho Kanno, Yoriko Douguchi, Tomoroh Taguchi, Mami Nakamura

After a past trauma a young girl is trying to recover her memories with the aid of a psychiatrist and the name 'Tomie' keeps cropping up. Meanwhile a... Read more

Shikoku (1999)

Director: Shunichi Nagasaki

Starring: Chiaki Kuriyama, Yui Natsukawa, Michitaka Tsutsui, Toshie Negishi, Ren Osugi

One of Japan's most rural island provinces, Shikoku translates as 'Four Countries', though an alternate spelling can be read 'The Land of the Dead'.... Read more

Tony Takitani (2004)

Director: Jun Ichikawa

Starring: Issey Ogata, Rie Miyazawa

Tony Takitani is lonely. Since he was kid, bullied for his 'western' name and neglected by his jazz musician father, Tony has been apart from the res... Read more

Isola (2000)

Director: Toshiyuki Mizutani

Starring: Yoshino Kimura, Yu Kurosawa, Makiko Watanabe, Ken Ishiguro

In the aftermath of the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, psychic Yukari takes a break from her studies to help with the rescue effort. She meets up with Chih... Read more

The Great Yokai War (2005)

Director: Takashi Miike

Starring: Chiaki Kuriyama, Hiroyuki Miyasako, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Bunta Sugawara, Kaho Minam...

An extravagant fun-filled fantasy the whole family can enjoy from the prolific and versatile Japanese director, Takashi Miike. Embracing and re-inter... Read more

Godzilla vs Destoroyah (1995)

Director: Takao Okawara

Starring: Takuro Tatsumi, Yoko Ishino, Yasufumi Hayashi, Megumi Odaka, Sayaka Osawa

Something has happened to Godzilla's home, Birth Island, and he shows up in Hong Kong harbour glowing bright red! He's on the verge of a nuclear melt... Read more

Alive (2002)

Director: Ryuhei Kitamura

Starring: Hideo Sakaki, Ryo , Koyuki , Shun Sugata, Erika Oda, Tak Sakaguchi, Jun Kunimura

Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presen... Read more

She, the Ultimate Weapon: Another Love Song (2005)

Director: Atsuko Kase

In this stand-alone side story to the groundbreaking series, Chise is a cute and delicate teenage girl, transformed into the Ultimate Weapon though sh... Read more

Blood and Bones (2004)

Director: Yoichi Sai

Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Hirofumi Arai, Tomoko Tabata, Jo Odagiri, Kyoka Suzuki

Japanese icon Takeshi Kitano plays Shunpei Kim, a Korean immigrant who comes to Osaka as a teenager in1920. Working at a fish factory, Kim claws his w... Read more