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.
Journey To The Shore (2015)
A devoted wife lets her husband, who drowned at sea three years ago, take her on a journey.
Pulse (2001)
Facing the apocalypse, as a secret website devotes itself to the terrible isolation of ghosts and the parable of techno terror.
Seance (2000)
The fate of missing schoolgirl haunts the lives of a medium and her husband in Japan.
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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