Before We Vanish (2017)
Narumi and her husband Shinji are going through a rocky patch when Shinji suddenly vanishes, returning several days later, utterly transformed. At the same time, a family is brutally murdered, and the town beset by strange phenomena. Journalist Sakurai begins to investigate the mystery…
Bright Future (2003)
Exploration of disaffected youth in Japan.
Cure (1997)
A detective investigates a series of murders, trying to work out why, despite each having the same methodology, the perpatrators appear to be different.
Creepy (2016)
An ex-cop is drawn into a missing persons case.
Daguerrotype (2016)
When an assistant to a daguerreotype photographer falls in love with the latter's daughter the relationship mirrors the art form as love and pain combine.
High And Low (1963)
When a man who thinks his child has been kidnapped discovers they've nabbed the wrong kid, he has to decide if the life of another's son is equally worth saving.
Ikiru (1952)
A civil servant, told he has incurable cancer, resolves to change his mundane life before he dies. Out on re-release.
Journey To The Shore (2015)
A devoted wife lets her husband, who drowned at sea three years ago, take her on a journey.
Kagemusha (1980)
A thief is draughted in to impersonate a warlord in medieval Japan.
Pulse (2001)
Facing the apocalypse, as a secret website devotes itself to the terrible isolation of ghosts and the parable of techno terror.
Ran (1985)
A warlord splits his kingdom between his sons only to see the older two cause chaos as they battle for supremacy in this vivid Japanese reworking of King Lear.
Rashomon (1950)
Four separate versions of a death in the forest.
Seance (2000)
The fate of missing schoolgirl haunts the lives of a medium and her husband in Japan.
Seven Samurai (1954)
A village enlists a group of samurai to defend them from bandits.
Throne Of Blood (1957)
The Scottish play transposed to a misty compound on the desolate slopes of Mount Fuji.
Tokyo Sonata (2008)
A Tokyo salaryman loses his job and tries to conceal it from his already dysfunctional family.
To The Ends Of The Earth (2019)
A Japanese TV host finds a trip to Uzbekistan to shoot an episode of her reality travel show begins to dissolve her chipper persona.
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