Toshirô Ishidô

Inspired by a true story, Eight Below is an exciting action-adventure about loyalty and the bonds of friendship set in the extreme wilderness of Antarctica. (Disney)

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica. Ushioda and Ochi eventually leave Antarctica, only to return to search for the dogs inadvertently marooned there. (imdb)

In Osaka's slum, youth without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. (IMDB)

Starving Christian peasants, oppressed by landowners and samurai alike, rise up, led by a teenage boy called Shiro, against the Shogunate. (American Cinematheque)

This Transient Life tells the story of the siblings Masao and Yuri who live in a huge estate near Lake Biwa north of Kyoto. Masao refuses to go to university and is infatuated with Buddhist sculptures. Iwashita, a student who lodges at the house, and Ogino, a young priest and former classmate of Masao, are both in love with Masao's beautiful sister Yuri, who rejects all proposals from her parents to marry her off. (midnighteye.com)

Yuriko, owner of a barbershop in Sapporo, takes a trip with Sugino, her lover. When they enjoy themselves in the cold and the snow, Yuriko tells him that she has come with the intention to break up with him. Convinced that there is another man, eaten up by jealousy, Sugino decides to kill her at the lake Shikotsuko. But Yuriko tells him that she's pregnant...

Shizuo Matsutani, a bank clerk, is engaged to Yumika, daughter of a rich shopowner, Denzô Hashimoto. But when he discovers that his mother, the beautiful Shizuka, is having an affair with said, he delays his wedding because of it. He has even begun to despise Denzô, who he thinks wants to destroy the relationship he has with his mother...

In 1960, during the wedding ceremony between Nozawa, a journalist and former student radical of the 1950's, and Reiko, a current activist, some of the people present recall the student demonstrations against the AMPO treaty, attributing responsibility and faults one another.

A black soldier flying during World War 2 is taken prisoner in a small Japanese village when his plane goes down.

A recreation of the events, both political and military, leading up to the tragic attack on Hiroshima in August 1945.

A woman lets her paramour take naked pictures of her which reaches the hands of a stalker.

Two men -- one who seeks to become separate from time, and one who seeks to conquer it through radical politics -- become involved with a vaguely Buddhist cult that practices kidnapping and rape and believes in benevolence through sexual sadism and male dominance.

Nakata, a writer, lives with the painful memory of the death of his wife, whose life was cut short a few years earlier. Was it an accident or was it suicide? Doubt persists. In order to escape his guilty conscience, Nakata gives up on marriage and fatherhood. Thus freed, he embarks on an obsessive sexual jeorney and records his adventures in a book, "The Dark Room".

In the final entry in his Buddhist Trilogy, Akio Jissôji returns to black and white for a story centred on the austere existence of a young houseboy who becomes helplessly embroiled in the schemes of two brothers. (Arrow Academy)

Living in a small coastal village, Wakae, 15, works as a bar hostess. Her mother died and her father is an alcoholic and poor. While she has just stolen a pair of shoes she meets Saburo, who tries to help her. Though soon they will separate. (mubi.com)

A Yakuza smuggler gets involved with a Korean prostitute.