Chieko Murata

A young Japanese mother must prostitute herself while her husband is away. When he returnns, her shocking secret changes both of their lives for ever.

Kiyoko is 23 and works as a tour guide. She lives with her mother and has two sisters and a brother, all from different fathers. Despite and because of various forms of pressure, the problems she sees and experiences around her make her suspicious of men and marriage, and very ambivalent about her relations to her own family.

It's the story of a maladjusted son of a prostitute. The boy is impotent unless he's stoking a loaded gun while making love. It's easy to see some quirky psychological problems here. But in reality, he's unconsciously reacting against his hatred for Americans, a deeply rooted hostility charged by the victimization of his mother at the hands of hungry soldiers on a military base in Yokota. Eventually the young psycho shoots a black GI and is immediately gunned down by American MPs.

In one of the best films of this type, famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent blend of intrigue and betrayal, set against the backdrop of wealth, this film is loaded with twists and turns and surprises at every corner. Things are never as they seem, and it will keep you guessing until the very end. A rare treasure of a mystery, like none before or since!

When a onna-kabuki actress is murdered by poison her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes the demonic cat possessed of the vengeful murder victim. The story takes place in the women's kabuki (onna kabuki), banned by a decree from the Shogun in 1629, so we can assume that the time of action is the early 17th century. (Japanesesamuraidvd.com)

Diary of a Mad Old Man is the journal of Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke. He discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still rages on - unwittingly sparked by the gentle, kindly attentions of his daughter-in-law Satsuko. He develops an obsession for her feet. (imdb)

When a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her and her cat and has their bodies immured in a wall. Shortly afterwards, a catlike demon begins to haunt the castle. (The Movie Database)

A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it. A Japanese variation of the "Moby Dick" story. (imdb)

In one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of vengeance. (themoviedb)

A pair of sisters make a go at life in post-WWII Kyoto; one as a geisha, the other as an office worker.

It is 1921 and a town has a newspaper which prints urgent bulletins as required. The Washington-based CITES treaty, in which Japan participates, puts a limit on the number of warships any country can possess. As a result, Japan has to decommission a ship to its makers' disappointment. An institute of technology's laboratory designs a new ship. Due to fewer ships, sailors have to retire and are also disappointed...

It follows the murder of a money-lending masseur by an impoverished samurai. The slain masseur's daughter will also fall victim to his curse so that she can become empowered as an agent of her father's vengeance.

Features a haunted well with yet another blind masseur's vengeful ghost.