Narumi Yasuda

A sword master and his group of friends; a midget, a bomb expert, a geek (with glasses), and a small rubber elephant must get a golden sword before a gang of ninjas, a rival gang of thieves does the same. The sword has magical powers and belongs to a Golden King who lives in a Golden Kingdom. (imdb comments)

This Chinese-Japanese co-production is a timeless story with state-of-the-art designs and special effects. Set in the present day, its valiant young heroes battle their mythological foes through the streets of Tokyo and Hong Kong. The beautiful Ashura holds the only key to The Gates of Hell, where its King is imprisoned. But Ashura has been asleep for centuries. When the evil Raga awakens her and tries to steal the key, it is up to two young monks to foil Raga's plan. (hkmdb.com)

After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home.

In 2010, Kazuko works as a pharmaceutical researcher secretly developing a formula for time travel. When she is left comatose after a car accident, her daughter Akari learns of her mother's first love, Kazuo. Believing that finding Kazuo will allow her mother to regain consciousness, Akari uses Kazuko's formula to leap back in time to the 1970s in hopes of finding a younger Kazuo. Instead, she meets and befriends Ryota Mizorogi. Together, they attempt to search for Kazuo. (wikipedia)

The movie centers around two ronin (masterless samurai) 16 years after they participated in the revenge of their former master. The two survived to fulfill specific purposes. (imdb)

The final final in the Nine film trilogy.

An off-kilter drama Luminous Woman tells a fish-out-of-water type story about a mountain man (he's just a big teddy bear really) coming down to the big city to reunite with his fiancée who is not all that keen to see him, in the end he falls in with an ex (?) singer who has lost all confidence in her ability to sing. It is all very dream-like and weird. (Letterbox'd review by 'Lou (rhymes with wow!)' & me)

After a promising young boxer is brutally murdered by a gang of Okinawa yakuza, the boxer's older brother, Ryo, travels to Okinawa for revenge. Two unlikely companions join him on his quest for vengeance: Max, a disabled Vietnam War veteran, and Reiko, his dead brother's girlfriend.