TO SLEEP SO AS TO DREAM (1986)
An ageing silent film actress hires a private eye and his wacky but helpful assistant to track down her missing daughter.
IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (1976)
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
DRIVE MY CAR (2021)
One day, the playwright wife of a stage actor and director disappears...
RED ANGEL (1966)
During the Second Sino-Japanese War, a young army nurse struggles to help her patients and falls in love with a morphine-addicted doctor.
SAILOR SUIT AND MACHINE GUN (1981)
A teenage delinquent schoolgirl named Izumi Hoshi inherits her father's Yakuza clan.
Yōkai Monsters Collection (1968-2005)
A review of Arrow Video's Blu-ray box-set 'Yōkai Monsters' Collection, featuring 100 Monsters, Spook Warfare, Along with Ghosts, and The Great Yōkai War.
SPIRITED AWAY (2001)
During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.
YOJIMBO (1961)
A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
BATTLE ROYALE (2000)
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary 'Battle Royale' act.
THE INVISIBLE MAN APPEARS (1949) • THE INVISIBLE MAN vs. THE HUMAN FLY (1957)
Two unique Japanese riffs on H.G Wells’ classic character, also indebted to Universal’s iconic film series...
KAGEMUSHA (1980)
A petty thief who resembles a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double, but when the warlord dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.