The Battery (2007)

The Battery (Yôjirô Takita, 2007) Japanese Title: Batterî The meaning of life, as it turns out and according to the logic of Yôjirô Takita...

United Red Army (2007)

United Red Army (Kôji Wakamatsu, 2007) Japanese Title: Jitsuroku rengô sekigun: Asama sansô e no michi Kôji Wakamatsu's United Red Army ...

The Machine Girl (2008)

The Machine Girl (Noboru Iguchi, 2008) Japanese Title: Kataude mashin gâru The average adult person has around five liters of blood. The ave...

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (Shohei Imamura, 2001) Japanese Title: Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu In one of my morning commutes to work...

Ringu (1998)

Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1998) English Title: The Ring (Warning: Spoilers Ahead) A decade after its original release in Japan, it is not exactly...

The Great Yokai War (2005)

The Great Yokai War (Takashi Miike, 2005) Japanese Title: Yôkai daisensô The plot of Takashi Miike's The Great Yokai War is generic: sc...

Retribution (2006)

Retribution (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2006) Japanese Title: Sakebi The murders in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Retribution ( Sakebi ) have distinct commo...

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (2006)

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (Takashi Miike, 2006) Japanese Title: 46-okunen no koi Takashi Miike has more than seventy films under his name. W...

Bullet Ballet (1998)

Bullet Ballet (Shinya Tsukamoto, 1998) Years after his breakthrough film Tetsuo, you can still smell Shinya Tsukamoto's famous fetish wi...

Kuroneko (1968)

Kuroneko (Kaneto Shindô, 1968) English Title: Black Cat From the Grove With Kuroneko ( Black Cat From the Grove ), director Kaneto Shindô d...

Tales From Earthsea (2006)

Tales From Earthsea (Goro Miyazaki, 2006) Japanese Title: Goro Senki This tale from Earthsea (a fantasy world created by author Ursula Le Gu...

Paprika (2006)

Paprika (Satoshi Kon, 2006) From the realist-humanist comedy of Tokyo Godfathers (2003), anime director Satoshi Kon returns to the subject ...

Goshu the Cellist (1982)

Goshu the Cellist (Isao Takahata, 1982) Japanese Title: Sero hiki no Gôshu The first few scenes that director Isao Takahata allows us to see...

Pigs and Battleships (1961)

Pigs and Battleships (Shohei Imamura, 1961) Japanese Title: Buta to Gunkan Irreverent and unabashedly human, Shohei Imamura's Pigs and B...

Lady Snowblood (1973)

Lady Snowblood (Toshiya Fujita, 1973) Japanese Title: Shurayukihime To claim that Toshiya Fujita's Lady Snowblood is artful cinema, whi...

It's Only Talk (2005)

It's Only Talk (Ryuichi Hiroki, 2005) Japanese Title: Yawarakai seikatsu A pervading and depressing sense of temporariness envelopes the...

The Insect Woman (1963)

The Insect Woman (Shohei Imamura, 1963) Japanese Title: Nippon konchuki A beetle crawls through a patch of soil, climbing a minuscule hill w...

Haze (2005)

Haze (Shinya Tsukamoto, 2005) A man (Shinya Tsukamoto) wakes up in a dark and cramped space. Unable to recall any of the events that precede...

Imprint (2006)

Imprint (Takashi Miike, 2006) Imprint , Takashi Miike's contribution to the television series Masters of Horror suffered a fate of not ...