Yôji Tanaka

Suzuki (Ando), a meek and indecisive car rental clerk, gets into a life changing car accident with a Japanese gangster. While Suzuki awaits his retribution in the mob's headquarters, comedic fate steps in with an explosion that rips through the building. Nurse Shizuko (Ishida), Suzuki's female counterpart, rescues him from the blast and the two find love running off with the mob's money, while being chased by the only surviving gangster. (Shooting Gallery)

Director Takeshi Kitano takes on Japanese cinematic legend Zatoichi. Kitano stars as the blind wanderer with a distinctive red cane and a shock of platinum blonde hair. Softly-spoken, he makes a living as a masseur and by gambling, but his humble, shuffling facade masks a lightning-fast, deadly swordsman. (Miramax)

A suicidal, obsessively compulsive Japanese librarian is forced to lie low in Thailand with a pot-smoking woman coping with the recent loss of her sister.

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

The first of a three-film series known as the Black Society Trilogy. Corrupt cop Tatsuhito disregards any and all regulations in his attempt to bring down Wang, an inhumanely cruel criminal who lords over an empire that makes its fortune from the debasing of human beings. (All Movie)

Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the perpetrator. An all out battle between the greatest minds on earth begins, the winner controlling the world. (imdb)

Traveling blind masseurs Tokuichi and Fukuichi are on the go from season to season, offering their services at hot spring mountain resorts and spas. Though unable to see, Tokuichi is extremely sensitive, able to deduce intimate details about people from sounds, scents, and touch. Arriving at his latest inn, Tokuichi takes an interest in two mysterious clients - Tokyo beauty Michiho who slowly steals his heart, and Omura, also from Tokyo, who is accompanied by his bored, mischievous nephew.. (http://community.livejournal.com/smapxsmap/246363.html)

Inspired by a true story, Wakamatsu shows his protagonist (a largely wordless, engaging performance by youngster Emoto) biking through beautiful landscapes but discovering the ugly side of Japanese history as he is propelled towards his own catharsis. In mostly improvised scenes, Emoto meets a series of older citizens with deep and sometimes shocking experiences to recount. (Roger Garcia for SFIFF)

Kenji Koiso, an eleventh grade math genius, agrees to take a summer job at the Nagano hometown of his crush, Natuski. When he arrives, he finds that her family have reunited to celebrate the 90th birthday of the family matriarch. His job is to pretend to be Natsuki's fiancé. Meanwhile, his attempt to solve a mathematical equation causes a parallel world's collision with earth (imdb)

3 short stories of how the guys found themselves at the dead end. in the first part a guy kills a girl by mistake and this is the first sight love. The second one is a psychological duel, and the final story is about who wants to die most

A gay Japanese couple examines their monogamous relationship after one of them initiates a liasion with a young hunk in a train station. Representative of Japan's "pink films," art-house, gay-themed f... read more are with explicit sexuality and high production values. (Flixster)

Komaki is a thirty-something woman that has had it with her perpetually unemployed aspiring writer husband. Following the divorce, she moves back to her Tokyo-area hometown of Kyojima along with her young daughter, Non-chan. However, she has a difficult time making ends meet in big city Tokyo. Her solution? Take a chance and try opening her very own bento (lunch box) shop. (Dr. Jay Trotter)

Shunichiro Miki delivers a shot of utter madness. Penis guns! Nipple monsters! A giant girl running a very small shop! This quasi-sequel to THE FUNKY FOREST more than lives up to the weird factor of its predecessor. (Fantastic Fest)

Masako, Yoshie, Kuniko and Yayoi, each with their own set of family problems, work the night shift together at a lunch box factory. One day, fighting back against her abusive husband, Yayoi ends up strangling him to death. Masako agrees to help her dispose of the corpse. She gets the idea to cut the body into small pieces, and enlists Yoshie and Kuniko to help out...

The story of a painter, a rich guy who can afford to buy works of art just as easily as any tight butt he fancies, a shy and alienated student, his sister, her sadistic boyfriend and a wire-tapping weirdo. When their fates collide, there will be devastating consequences.

The search for her vanished brother Tsuyoshi leads Kaoru to the lonesome village Kozukata in the Japanese back-land. The locals react repelling to her, which the exception of the Chinese girl Sally. As her car breaks down Kaoru is trapped in the village; will she have to repay for something she has done in the past? (imdb)

A long-awaited sequel to the internationally acclaimed full-throttle splatter sci-fi action horror "Meatball Machine". (imdb)

A police detective investigating a vicious string of homosexual murders discovers that the latest victim appears to be the married executive who was his college lover ten years before. (Robert Firsching)

Kanako and Hideo has dated for the past 10 years. Kanako works at a bento factory and Hideo tries to find work as an actor. One day, Kanako is informed she is being fired from her job. Hideo freaks out when he learns that Kanako will be unemployed. He then tells her about a job opening at a professional wrestling organization. Although Kanako has zero interest in wrestling, Hideo is a huge wrestling fan.

Following the news of a heinous tragedy, a young woman searches the streets for her missing brother, the person accused of committing the incident. Unaware of his true status or location, he finds himself in the employ of an underground fighting ring using inmates like him to entertain wealthy clients, eventually moving up the ranks of the fighters quite quickly. Eventually frustrated at the lack of information from the investigation, she turns to a detective to help him, but with a dangerous so

In the time before World War II, a bloody conflict erupts between villagers and Japan's Special Higher Police forces.

The young and charming Eri Manaka writes a romance novel out of boredom. This makes her the new star in the world of literature, idolized at parties and ensnared by the literary elite. When her own romances are less successful, she starts the much more pessimistic follow-up novel - but the characters don't quite agree with what Eri is telling them. (imdb)

The film follows Saki (Momotsuki), Mei (Kudo), and Kaho (Teramoto), the members of the budding idol group called Wish as they are set to appear in the sequel of Toei's hit movie, Yugami. Toei Movie Studios is a place where a lot of popular movies and dramas are filmed, but this studio also has an untold secret.

This coming-of-age story revolves around two young long-distance runners, Kenji Hirose and Ryuji Nakazawa. Kenji, haunted by memories of his dead friend Aihara with whom he had a brief homosexual affair, is now dating Aihara's former girlfriend Kyoko, but Kyoko is more interested in Kenji than he is in her. Ryuji, Kenji's friend and track rival, is pursuing hurdler Shoko but she in turn is after Kenji. Ryuji does have his own admirer, Nao, Kenji's younger sister, but when they do get together...

Shuji, an unemployed young man, has been living a haphazard and lethargic life, cheating on his wife with his girlfriends and constantly asking his best friend for loans. Then one day, Shuji takes a train and arrives at a country town. There, he meets Sachiko, a woman who never smiles, and starts working as a live-in employee at the printing house where she works. Shuji has a lot of emotionless sex with Sachiko.

Two men attempt to come to terms with a traumatic past by solving a present mystery in Takahisa Zeze's eerie millennial serial killer drama

A sensual coming-of-age drama direct — It depicts a precarious relationship between a homosexual woman and a man who was picked up by her and ends up living with her.

Asako and Yamada, after getting drunk for the first time and going straight to the hotel, spend a hot night, but they are separated by a fire that has started. The fireman Sudo saved Asako and fell in love with her at first sight. A sensual drama depicting a strange love triangle between a female beautician and two men, which begins with a fire in the hotel of love.

Fans of Kamaitachi no Yoru gather to shoot a film based on the game until one of the cast members is killed.

A disappointed married woman who was told by a doctor that she could not have children. Her husband drowned in affair with a young woman while treating her gently. She felt uneasy about unfortunate circumstances and aging, but she was confused about her husband's affair.

A romance that takes place one summer in the countryside between an out-of-job musician, Hanabi, and a girl, Hibana.

A love story in the style of a psycho-thriller, depicting the relationship between a female police officer who continues to have an affair and the men who surround her, along with the progress of a bizarre incident. Due to various circumstances, the theatrical release was postponed and the work announced as OV was released to the public at a special screening at the Kamemei Painting Theater in Tokyo.

Kotoko Aihara, a high school girl who isn't that smart has to follow her father's decision after her father decides to live temporarily with his friend. She is surprised to learn that the boy who she falls in love with lives there as well.

A pair of friendly coworkers at a rental video store accidentally become murders. Borrowing a station wagon, they flee with no particular destination in mind.

Witness a bizarre job interview and a dotty grandma in these five short surreal stories revolving around the legendary Japanese department store Parco.

A kid named Akagi plays mahjong for the first time and shocks everyone in the underworld

Koji, a jazz musician, witnesses a murder. Dodging assassins, he encounters Linda as they desperately race against time to reach his club before midnight, all while evading deadly hit-men and law enforcement to clear their names.