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In 1960s Tokyo, Gonda owns a bar in which the gay, cross-dresser, and trans scenes meet. Gonda is in a relationship with the madam of the bar, Leda....
Funeral Parade of Roses
Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day period...
Typhoon Club
Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan....
Double Suicide
Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend,...
The Youth Killer
An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense...
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.
Death by Hanging
A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in...
Zigeunerweisen
Gengobe Satsuma, an exiled samurai cast out as an Asano clan retainer, is given a second chance to join his brothers in arms to become the 48th Ronin...
Demons
A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural...
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to...
Distant Thunder
In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
A married couple of abalone divers must confront ruthless investors taking over their coastline.
Mermaid Legend
Shortly after moving to the suburbs, the Kobayashis start to come undone. Convinced a family curse is at the root of their erratic behavior, the man...
The Crazy Family
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional...
The Ceremony
A militant revolutionary group is torn apart by betrayal as its members descend into paranoia and sexual decadence.
Ecstasy of the Angels
A sendup of the stereotypical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a...
The Family Game
Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an...
This Transient Life
Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), the imperial loyalist who tried to unite the Choshu and Satsuma clans and...
The Assassination of Ryoma
In a Japanese colony, children overthrow their parental guardians and attempt to form a new society. Their plan spirals out of control and they are...
Emperor Tomato Ketchup
A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as...
The Human Bullet