Lust in the Rain

Lust in the Rain 2024

1

The story centers on Yoshio, a poor and struggling manga artist who lives in Kitamachi. He is sent by Oyaji, the landlord of his apartment who is also engaged in other shady businesses, to help a novelist called Imori move in, and meets a recently-divorced woman named Fukuko. Yoshio is immediately bewitched by her beauty, even though she is already seeing someone else. In the meantime, Imori establishes an advertising agency, borrowing the name of a larger agency from the wealthier Minamicho, in order to sell his novel. Yoshio ends up helping with Imori's efforts, and somehow Imori and Fukuko come to live together with Yoshio.

2024

When the Last Sword Is Drawn

When the Last Sword Is Drawn 2003

7.50

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on the the low pay he receives from his small town clan, he is forced by the love for his family to leave for the city in search of higher pay to support them.

2003

Marebito

Marebito 2004

5.90

A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.

2004

My Beautiful Man: Eternal

My Beautiful Man: Eternal 2023

6.70

As he nears graduation from university, Hira begins working as an assistant to the popular photographer Noguchi. Witnessing a professional job, he gradually distances himself from Kiyoi, not wanting to get in the way of him as he expands his career as an actor. Hira, who can only think "Kiyoi is a god" and a precious being, and Kiyoi, who wants to be an "ordinary" lover on an equal footing with Hira, miss each other little by little.

2023

Moon Child

Moon Child 2003

5.50

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 footsteps as a vampire with the gift of eternal life and the curse of blood thirst. Over time, their tight friendship becomes corrupted because of their rivalry and love for the same woman.

2003

House of Himiko

House of Himiko 2005

6.40

Saori is a young woman struggling to make her way in life. Her gay father, Himiko, had abandoned Saori and her mother years before. Now her father's young lover Haruhiko shows up to tell Saori that her father is dying of cancer. Still angry with her father but in need of money, Saori travels to the House of Himiko, a nursing home established by her father for gay men. Over time, a tenuous relationship begins to develop between Saori, her father, and Haruhiko.

2005

69

69 2004

6.20

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, and rock music, and develop their project into a school road block. This plan however catches the attention of television stations and newspapers, and soon even the cops became involved in this teenage adventure.

2004

Resurrection

Resurrection 2003

5.60

When dead people starts returning to the small Japanese town of Aso, government official Kawada is dispatched to uncover the “truth”.

2003

Spy Sorge

Spy Sorge 2003

7.50

A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II and in the midst of the Japanese imperial ambitions in Eastern Asia. The spy becomes acquainted with a sympathetic communist who like he is attached to the ideals of freedom and rule of the masses. Sorge is able to feed the Soviet Union useful information regarding the Axis allies and their movements in Asia and beyond.

2003

Rampo Noir

Rampo Noir 2005

5.90

An anthology film consisting of four segments based on literary works by Edogawa Ranpo.

2005

Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment

Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment 1996

6.00

There still stands a famous apartment building where such prominent manga artists as Tezuka Osamu, Shotaro Ishinomori and Fujio Akatsuka once lived, worked, and shared experiences.

1996

Kuchinai Sakura

Kuchinai Sakura 2024

3.00

This film tells the story of the protagonist of the county police propaganda class who independently investigates the mystery of his friend's mysterious death, uncovers the truth of the incident, and gradually reveals the story of the "public security police" who have emerged. The female college student living in Pingjing City, Aichi County was killed by the eldest son of the shrine after being harassed by stalkers for many times. According to an exclusive report from the local newspaper, the police delayed accepting the report of a female college student and went on a trip to comfort them during this period. Morikuchi Quan, a staff member of the county police propaganda and listening class, suspected that newspaper reporter Tsumura Chika had broken his promise to report, but Chika, who wanted to prove his innocence, was found dead a week later. The thoughts of self blame and regret drove Quan, vowing to personally catch the murderer who killed Qianjia.

2024

Moon and Cherry

Moon and Cherry 2004

6.00

When an alluring young woman joins an erotic writing class, she begins a game of sexual cat and mouse with a naïve college student. As they venture into more and more unpredictable territory in the bedroom, he begins to think she might be using him as a test subject for her fiction more than anything else.

2004

Hibi

Hibi 2005

6.50

Hibi tells about mother who does pottery and lives rather simple life, growing her children up. She does remarkable job in pottery, finding a new way to make natural pottery in her own tunnel kiln. Then, her son gets leukemia. And entire family has to fight hard to find a donor who has matching bone marrow.

2005

Scarier Stories Than Ghosts Vol.2

Scarier Stories Than Ghosts Vol.2 2005

1

Anthology film with 3 stories. 60 Bun no Kyofu (60 Minutes of Fear), Kodomo no Itazura (Child Prank), and Sakuya no dekigoto (Last Night's Events).

2005

Scarier Stories Than Ghosts Vol.1

Scarier Stories Than Ghosts Vol.1 2005

1

Anthology film with 3 stories. Fukuro (Bag), Joyu Sutoka (Actress Stalker), and Moso Kankin (Delusional Confinement).

2005

More Painful than Rain

More Painful than Rain 2005

8.00

Ayami, who works in the marketing department of an advertising agency, is about to turn 30 and is beginning to think that she would rather live her life for work than marriage. Just then, she meets Kurasawa, who works at the same company, and they soon find themselves drawn to each other.

2005

Scarier Stories Than Ghosts Vol.4

Scarier Stories Than Ghosts Vol.4 2005

1

Anthology film with 3 stories. 207-Goshitsu no Kyaku (Guest in Room 207), Yochi Yume (Prophetic Dream), and Isho (Suicide Letter).

2005

Scarier Stories Than Ghosts Vol.3

Scarier Stories Than Ghosts Vol.3 2005

1

Anthology film with 3 stories. Jisatsu Misui (Attempted Suicide), Keiri Onna (Accounting Woman), and Fukushu (Revenge).

2005

The Hunter and the Hunted

The Hunter and the Hunted 2004

1

Jin (Yakusho), a young, widowed police detective who is thinking of leaving the force to better take care of his 8 year old daughter Misaki (Kanno), by chance arrests Neko (Emoto), an accomplished middle aged burglar who has just fixed Misaki's bicycle. After Neko has several weeks to see Jin in the interrogation room, he decides to confess to Jin and teach him how to become a capable detective and worthy adversary. By the time Neko serves his 10 year sentence, Jin is a highly regarded detective and they can they start their contest in earnest.

2004