Junji Sakamoto

A speculative reconstruction of a never fully explained incident from 1973: the five-day disappearance in Japan of Kim Dae-Jung. Kim (codenamed 'KT') was on a secret fund-raising visit to Tokyo when he was snatched from a hotel room; the film says the kidnappers were Korean CIA men abetted by Japan's army-in-all-but-name, the Jieitai, both working with the tacit approval of the USA. (asianwiki.com)

Killing her sister is just what a dreary Japanese seamstress needed to perk up her life... (offoffoff.com)

Two-bit gangster Goro Noda (Tatsuya Fujiwara) is living a hand-to-mouth life with his close friends. One day, he gets into a great deal of trouble and a government organization slaughters his friends and Goro decides to seek revenge against the organization. (sensasian.com)

Drama about the exploitation and abuse of children in Thai prostitution rings.

A blind master swordsman attempts to lead a quiet life with his wife but he is provoked back into battle. (imdb)

Zen is the town crank, local kabuki star and proprietor of a venison restaurant in a rural mountain village. When his wife & best friend return to town after having eloped together years earlier, the ties between kabuki and real life are made evident.

20 years ago, an elementary school student falls on an island in the northern tip of Hokkaido. A teacher and 6 students makes contact through songs. What happened to the student who fell? The teacher returns 20 years later to meet with her former students. (imdb)

A biological weapon is smuggled aboard a high tech battleship named Aegis. Militants are determined to unleash it on Japan. But a brave Chief Petty Officer has other ideas. He and an undercover agent attempt to stop them. (imdb)

An elderly couple is offered to meet with their dead son by strange people in exchange for herbal medicine. (imdb)

A boxer attempts to make a comeback after suffering a major head injury.

Former childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu cross paths again. Kaneo is now a yakuza member, while Masatatsu is a nightclub owner with a distaste for crime gangs. When a yakuza boss dies, a struggle for his position takes place between Kaneo's boss Awano and the young Nakahira. Nakahira's men try to extort money from Masatatsu, bringing him in between a yakuza battle.