Vital(2004)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 6

After a tragic car accident where his girlfriend Ryôko Ooyama (Nami Tsukamoto) died, Hiroshi Takagi (Tadanobu Asano) suffers amnesia with his memories completely blanked. When he sees a ...



Naisu no mori: The First Contact(2005)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 5

An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.



Tôkyô zonbi(2005)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A horror-comedy manga feature about two blue-collar factory workers (who happen to be jiu-jitsu experts) dealing with a ravenous, flesh-eating zombie uprising in Tokyo.



Electric Dragon 80.000 V(2001)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard half-merged with a metallic Buddha.



Invisible Waves(2006)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After inadvertently killing his girlfriend, a man (Asano) flees Macau for Thailand in an attempt to cope with his guilt, and avoid possible arrest. But the relocation doesn't prevent his problems from following him, as his new friends could be potential enemies.



Pikunikku(1996)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Believing that the world will end that very day, three mental patients Coco, Tsumuji, and Satoru set out upon a journey. Walking upon the tops of the walls of the city, they seek to find a ...



Kâbê(2008)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Based on childhood days of Teruyo Nogami.



Ranpo jigoku(2005)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

This four-part anthology takes its cue from the short fiction of legendary horror writer Edogawa Rampo.



Gojô reisenki: Gojoe(2000)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism. His faith in pacifism, however, is shaken and ultimately broken by the attacks from a ...



Love & Pop(1998)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Teenage drama; schoolgirls, enjo-kosai (compensated dating)



Luo man di ke xiao wang shi(2016)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Chun Du, Ziyi Zhang, Tadanobu Asano, You Ge,
Er Cheng,

Over the course of several decades, a deal between the Japanese army and criminals in Shanghai plays out with violence and betrayal.



Yume no ginga(1997)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Bus conductor Tomiko falls in love with driver Niitaka, even though she also suspects him of being a serial killer who killed his female conductors after tiring of them.



San tiao ren(1999)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The protagonist is Asano who has had an amazing memory since his youth spent in Okinawa. Words have tangible shapes, tastes and colours for him. This goes so far that he is not even able to...



Sad Vacation(2007)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Kenji, abandoned by his mother, scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs including driving bar hostesses and their customers home. Besides this he takes care of the sister of an old ...



Viyon no tsuma(2009)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 ...



Majo no takkyûbin(2014)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.



Watashi no otoko(2014)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After losing everything in a tsunami, 10-year-old Hana is taken in by 26-year-old distant relative Jungo Kusarino. They live as father and daughter but share a profound sense of loss. Jungo...



Mizu no onna(2002)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0



Tsurugidake: Ten no ki(2009)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.




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