Ichirô Ogura

Follows the fluctuating fortunes of three friends in feudal Japan who are ronin. (imdb)

The story is about a journalist who becomes infected with a Japanese demon. The demon incubates in the mans stomach before violently tearing its way up and out through the journalists mouth. As soon as the demon is "born" it is snatched away by a mysterious stranger. The journalist soon discovers that the man who grabbed up the demon is in fact a former infectee who has developed a taste for the little demons

Record shop clerk and aspiring DJ Tsutomu (Ryo Kase) searches for his masculinity when challenged to a kendo duel. (imdb)

On November 25th 1970, a man committed ritual suicide inside the Tokyo headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Defense. The man was Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's greatest and most celebrated novelists.With four members of his own private army -- the Tatenokai -- Mishima had taken the commandant hostage and called upon the assembled military outside the Ministry to overthrow their society and restore the powers of the Emperor. (mubi.com)

Japanese school girls die violently after seeing a man wearing a black hood. (imdb)

A Japanese street racer looks to track down a legendary racer for revenge. His quest continues.

This is a direct-to-video special set many years after the end of the original Ultraman Tiga series, in which Daigo Madoka (host of Ultraman Tiga) has a son with Rena, named Tsubasa Madoka. Tsubasa is a member of the team featured in Ultraman Dyna, Super GUTS. (imdb)

Zen is the town crank, local kabuki star and proprietor of a venison restaurant in a rural mountain village. When his wife & best friend return to town after having eloped together years earlier, the ties between kabuki and real life are made evident.

A former retainer to a noble family kills his wife's father when he tries to expose his past crimes. When he begins an affair with the daughter of another clan's retainer, her father tries to poison him but the substance instead claims an innocent victim… (letterboxd.com)

Midori is a university student who finds part-time work at a hostess club, near the end of Japan's "Bubble Economy," in the late 80s. She agrees to become the mistress of one of the wealthy young patrons for two million yen a month, but then the bubble bursts...

A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho. He quickly becomes aware that her life is in his hands when he learns she is hiding from the yakuza.

As the date of their high school graduation approaches, five friends struggle to decide what they will do afterwards. Torn between their aspirations, family obligations, and social pressures, none of their options seem like the correct choice. As they contemplate their decisions, knowing that the future will likely pull them in different directions, they agree to take one last trip to a hot spring together.