NEW RESTORATION!  Inspired by an actual event during WWII, Josef von Sternberg's Anat...

After moving into her first apartment, Sayaka invites her friends to come over and celebrate. During...

Nobuyoshi Araki is Japan's most famous and notorious photographer. In a culture where complete femal...

Set during the time of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Caterpillar tells the story of a Japanese soldi...

After the sudden, self-inflicted death of her husband, a young mother (Makiko Esumi) remarries and m...

Mainland master Jia Zhangke scales new heights with Mountains May Depart. At once an intimate drama ...

Down on their luck and desperate for money to buy drugs, Mitsuru (Tetsuji Tamayama) and Maki (Asami ...

Ramen Heads follows Osamu Tomita, Japan’s reigning king of ramen, as he reveals every single s...

Based on director Gu Su-yeon's autobiographical novel, Hard Romanticker is a spectacularly violent g...

Sweet Bean is a delicious red bean paste, the sweet heart of the dorayaki pancakes that Sentaro (Mas...

In this meticulously researched documentary, filmmaker Mark Hall traces the origins of sushi in Japa...

George- The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus is a feature documentary as mercurial as its subject...

Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, this affecting, enlightening documentary from...

Bleach-blonde wannabe rocker Wendy (Carrie Hamilton) is disillusioned with her life in New York City...

In his epic film United Red Army, Japanese auteur Koji Wakamatsu brilliantly depicts the most troubl...

Known to everyone in their idyllic Japanese village as “the brats,” twin brothers Yukihi...

Master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse, Cure, Tokyo Sonata) won the Silver Lion (Best Director) at...

ZEN FOR NOTHING is a masterly immersion into life at a Japanese Zen monastery over three seasons. Sw...