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Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their...

genus: Drama

cast: Hayato Ichihara

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle...

genus: Drama

cast: Tatsuya Fujiwara

It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring...

genus: Action

cast: Shugo Oshinari

After going to extremes to cover up an accident, a corrupt cop's life spirals out of control when he starts receiving threats from a mysterious...

genus: Thriller

cast: Junichi Okada

A girl vanishes while walking, leaving her family devastated. As months pass without clues, rumors about her mother's actions intensify online,...

genus: Drama

cast: Satomi Ishihara

In the present day, the world is in turmoil due to an "unprecedented disaster." A young man living in Tokyo, Suzushirō, has a secret he cannot...

genus: Animation

cast: Soma Saito

A large scale catastrophe is occurring across the planet. Ability users are discovered after the appearance of a mysterious fog, apparently having...

genus: Animation

cast: Kensho Ono

Hyakkimaru, a warrior on a quest to reclaim 48 of his body parts which were each taken by a demon, is joined by Dororo, a thief on a quest to avenge...

genus: Action

cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

The movie starts off after the events of Episode 3, when Kisaragi had sunk. The Mikawa Fleet (Furutaka, Aoba, Kako, Kinugasa and Tenryuu) are in the...

genus: Action

cast: Sumire Uesaka

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians....

genus: Comedy

cast: Ayako Fujitani

In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society....

genus: Drama

cast: Chieko Baisho

When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation to save him....

genus: Action

cast: Eriko Sato

Toru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend, and another woman, the...

genus: Drama

cast: Kenichi Matsuyama

Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwara District, navigating brothel politics...

genus: History

cast: Anna Tsuchiya

Moon Child follows a group of childhood friends as they advance in a futuristic criminal underworld. Sho feels he is doomed to walk in his idol Kei's...

genus: Horror

cast: Gackt

A young teen's father dies, and he is sent to an orphanage. He's teased because he stutters almost runs away, until a beautiful, androgynous boy,...

genus: Music

cast: Atsushi Ito

A successful businessman and his alcoholic wife attempt to piece together their unhappy lives and shattered marriage. Little do Nagai and Akira know...

genus: Drama

cast: Hiroshi Mikami

Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater,...

genus: Drama

cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

Youjin is a quirky young man living in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Yojin has a difficult time sitting still and can't focus on extended conversations....

genus: Drama

cast: Kenichi Matsuyama

Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation...

genus: Crime

cast: Takehiro Murata