7.3/10

Director: Masayuki Suo

Starring: Masahiro Motoki, Misa Shimizu, Naoto Takenaka, Masaaki Takarai, Hiromasa Tagushi...

With his grades sliding at university, Shuhei's professor gets the cunning idea of blackmailing him into joining the Sumo wrestling team. Shuhei begru... Read more

5.6/10

Director: Masayuki Ochiai

Starring: Goro Inagaki , Miho Kanno, Ken Utsui

What is the only thing these three deaths have in common: a groom that hangs himself at his own wedding reception, a seventy-year old man who throws h... Read more

6.1/10

Director: Masayuki Ochiai

Starring: Kaho Minami, Masanobu Takashima, Shiro Sano, Koichi Sato, Takashige Ichise

A burns victim taken to an under-staffed, over-worked hospital is accidentally given a lethal injection, but the doctor in charge tells everyone to fo... Read more

7.8/10

Director: Masayuki Suo

Starring: Koji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka, Eriko Watanabe

Mr. Sugiyama is an awkward and painfully shy middle-aged workaholic leading a mind-numbingly dull existence - until the day he catches a glimpse of a... Read more

6.4/10

Director: Masaaki Tezuka

Starring: Noboru Kaneko, Miho Yoshioka

Mechagodzilla, the superior-armed, state-of-the-art, all-robot version of Godzilla, is undergoing repairs after his devastating battle against the wor... Read more

6.3/10

Director: Masaaki Tezuka

Starring: Misato Tanaka, Shosuke Tanihara, Masato Ibu

Five years after Godzilla terrorized the city of Osaka, Japanese scientists have developed a sure-fire way to finally destroy Japan's monster nemesis.... Read more

5.1/10

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

6.4/10

Director: Masaaki Tezuka

Starring: Yumiko Shaku, Shin Takuma, Kumi Mizuno, Akira Nakao

Godzilla has returned and Tokyo is once again under attack! A team of crack scientists take DNA from the first Godzilla and design Kiryu, a giant mech... Read more

8/10

Director: Masaki Kobayashi

Starring: Keiko Kishi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kazuo Nakamura

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, Masaki Kobayashi's 'Kwaidan' features four nightmarish tales adapted from Lafcadio Hearn's classic Japanes... Read more

8.4/10

Director: Masaki Kobayashi

Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa

Toshiro Mifune stars as Isaburo Sasahara, an aging swordsman living a quiet life until his clan lord orders that his son marry the lords mistress, wh... Read more

7.8/10

Director: Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Masayuki

The Angels have descended. These colossal extraterrestrial monsters besiege the fortress-city of Tokyo-3 and our last line of defence is the Evangelio... Read more

7.1/10

Director: Atsuko Fukushima, Shoji Kawamori, Shinji Kimura, Yoji Fukuyama, Hideki Futamura, Masaaki Yuasa, Shinichiro Watanabe

Seven all-star animators from Japan are given creative carte blanche in this anthology of shorts from Studio 4°C. Masaaki Yuasa explores an infant's f... Read more