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Infection (2004)
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
Zatoichi (2003)
7.6/10
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Michiyo Ogusu, Yui Natsukawa
Aka "The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi". The sightless Zatoichi - hero of over two dozen films from 1962 to 1989 - is revived by scripter/director/star Ta... Read more
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011)
7.3/10
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Koji Yakusho, Naoto Takenaka, Eita , Hikari Mitsushima, Ebizo Ichikawa, Munetaka...
Directed by Takashi Miike ("13 Assassins"), this remake of the 1962 film "Harakiri" relates the story of a mysterious samurai who arrives at the doors... Read more
Last Life in the Universe (2003)
7.6/10
Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Starring: Sinitta Boonyasak, Asano Tadanobu, Laila Boonyasak, Yutaka Matsushige, Riki Take...
A macabre, dead-pan comedy/drama chronicling the unlikely and all-too-brief romance that develops between two disparate loners. Kenji is a fastidious... Read more
Gohatto (1999)
6.9/10
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tomoroh Taguchi...
Master filmmaker Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses) returns to the screen with this fascinatingly ambiguous tale of homoerotic desire and jeal... Read more
Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II (1993)
6.6/10
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
A Tattooed Life (1965)
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Starring: Hideki Takahashi, Akira Yamauchi, Hiroko Ito, Masako Izumi, Kayo Matsuo
Another yakuza classic from maverick director Seijun Suzuki ('Tokyo Drifter', 'Branded to Kill') about a recently retired assassin who finds he made s... Read more
Beyond Outrage (2012)
6.8/10
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Toshiyuki Nishida, Fumiyo Kohinata, Ryo Kase, Yutaka Matsushige,...
Filmmaker Takeshi Kitano looks to go, well, beyond his yakuza war opus "Outrage" in this lead-laden follow-up. A manipulative police crackdown on orga... Read more