Shunsuke Matsuoka

Betrayed and disgraced, big-city reporter Kazuya Mizuno is banished to a desk at Kaname’s boring little town newspaper. But Kaname ...

For 60 years, the group of detectives known as “Detective Office 5” has raised the bar for detective work. The agents of Detective ...

A woman finds out her father is not her real one after her mother falls into a coma while searching for a mythical creature. She decides to meet ...

Kazuhiko Nakamura directs this sexually charged wacky comedy set in the world of the Japanese adult video industry. The story follows a young ...

Kasumi is in the midst of an affair with Ishiyama, one of her husband’s clients. When Kasumi and her family visit Ishiyama’s villa in ...

Mitsuko, a thirty-something Japanese secretary, lives a very simple life devoid of ambition. She has an affair with Eiji, a rich, arrogant and ...

This coming-of-age story revolves around two young long distance runners, Kenji Hirose and Ryuji Nakazawa. Kenji, haunted by memories of his dead ...

Sato’s re-imagining of In a Grove, on which Rashomon was based. In this version, instead of a web of lies and agendas, we get a web of ...

Masamichi Toyama is a loyal husband with a bad gambling debt. Mobsters out for the money track him down, beating him and raping his wife. ...

Small-time con man, Jiro (Shunsuke Matsuoka), makes his living tricking small businesses out of large sums of money. In the process he acquires a ...

The search for her vanished brother Tsuyoshi leads Kaoru to the lonesome village Kozukata in the Japanese back-land. The locals react repelling ...

Chihiro is raped by three men and it is captured on video camera. She leaves her hometown and prepares to marry a colleague five years later, ...

A retro-futuristic dystopia adapted from an Ango Sakaguchi novel.