Kenji Sawada

The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more. (imdb)

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.

The villain is called Amakusa SHIRO Tokaisada. He is actually based on a real christian samurai. The movie was one of the inspirations for the game called 'Samurai Shodown' (actual spelling) (imdb)

The final film in his acclaimed Taisho trilogy, maverick filmmaker Seijun Suzuki directs his bizarre, hallucinatory tale about the tortured inner world of famed 1920s painter Yumeji Takehisa. (rotten tomatoes)

A school was built on one of the Gates of Hell, behind which hordes of demons await the moment they will be free to roam the Earth. Hiruko is a goblin sent to Earth on a reconnaissance mission. He beheads students in order to assemble their heads on the demons' spider-like bodies. Hieda, an archaeology professor, and Masao, a haunted student, investigate the gory deaths and eventually battle Hiruko. (imdb)

Sabu is a simple, straight-forward friendship/love story with few surprises, very unlike Miike's more popular movies...What makes this movie better than just an average movie of the week is the direction. The opening 10 minutes are some of the most beautiful I have ever seen. The movie itself is worth seeing at least once, but the directing gives it replay value several times over. (imdb)

A misfit high-school science teacher decides to build his own atomic bomb. (imdb)

A married man with a boring job envisions a way to end this misery while keeping his family life. He schemes chloroforming an attractive waitress. He chloroforms her as she sleeps, and he has sex with her. He does the same with other women as well, but returns to the waitress, at times living a token for her. By mistake, he removes his mask and falls unconscious and wakes up in her room and start thinking about what the outcome will be of his foolishness.

Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune. (imdb)

Goh is an elderly man who has a problem with gambling, forcing his wife and daughter to bail him out repeatedly. This time, however, neither wife nor daughter is willing to help. They take over his financial matters and send him back to deal with his old forgotten passion: cinema. Goh goes to his old friend who owns a theater for classic film. They reminisce about their youth (when Goh was an aspiring director) while Goh’s grandson has a very ambitious plan for his grandpa. (asianmoviepulse)

An emotionless hitman is sent on a mission to a remote town. There he stays with a caretaker/driver/servant/doctor who is given minimal instruction over the phone by "the organization." A prostitute joins them. Death is inevitable, but whose?

Tsutomu lives alone in the mountains, writing essays, cooking Zen food with the vegetables he grows and the mushrooms he picks in the hills. His routine is happily disturbed when Machiko, his editor and love interest, occasionally visits. Tsutomu seems content with his daily life. On the other hand, he still hasn’t let go of his wife’s ashes, although she died 13 years ago… (Letterboxd)