Hideo Nakano

A quiet evening in a bar for three Japanese "salarymen" turns into a twisted fight for survival in this compelling suspense tale. A chance remark about the trio sitting at the next table leads to one of the men being severely beaten. When they meet one of the assailants by chance and attack him, leaving him for dead, the businessmen begin receiving threatening calls from their mysterious, unknown enemies. (Amazon)

Hard-boiled Japanese auteur Takeshi Kitano returns with the sequel to his 2010 yakuza thriller. (tiff.net)

Aikawa Sho finally made a directorial debut! Based on the original Naoki Ozawa writer Naoki Azuma who is familiar with the "Shinjuku shark" series, she draws a break with young private detonator Youth (amazon)

The head of the Tatsumi family falls ill and dies after requesting that his son, who disappeared 15 years ago, take over. The Tatsumi family, including the young head Ryu, decides to search for his son's whereabouts in order to keep his will. They finally find his son and learn he is now a woman. Meanwhile, the hostile Honjoukai are plotting to steal the Tatsumi family's territory.

In the near future, the earth is devoid of women due to a virus that will lead to the extinction of the human race. In the meantime, a murder occurs at a research institute that was developing a vaccine. Kiriyama of the Public Security Bureau goes to the scene and finds that the murderer is his colleague Kaneshiro. He had already been infected with some kind of virus...

A washed-up horror film director named Kôji Kuroishi and his assistant director named Miho Ichikawa visit a house deep in wooded mountains to film a movie. Once arrive, they meet a mentally deranged woman named Maria Miyoshi who proclaims she's a fan of Kuroishi's works. The woman pleads that she's experienced the same things as documented in Kuroishi's works. Unexplainable phenomena quickly begin to happen, so Kuroishi sets out to document these experiences and turn them into a film...

Matsuba Group was dominant in Gumma but an emerging group began to mess around their territory. Designated as the leader of a branch, Makino swipes the rival group... but can he take on a horde of rival assassins?