Japon

It follows a filmmaker who holds auditions for his next project. Several of the actors who fail to win roles participate as extras.

A young, naive boy sets out alone on the road to find his wayward mother. Soon he finds an unlikely protector in a crotchety man and the two have a series of unexpected adventures along the way.

Two student couples stumble upon a cult dedicated to promoting the primordial human state through rape and agriculture.

The story centers on a group of young people who travel back in time when they are in a movie theater just before closing time. They witness deaths during the closing days of Japan's feudal times and on the battlefront in China before they are sent to Hiroshima just before the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing of the city.

A life-size blow-up doll develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk.

Hiroshima Police detective Ogami Shogo and his partner Hioka Shuichi are investigating the disappearance of a company's employees amidst an escalating yakuza turf war in 1988. Blood, shooting and death is everywhere. At the same time, there is a suspicion that the former man has his own ties to the thugs. Certainly many of his methods and actions are thuggish, violent and should be illegal.

Professional hitman Long takes on an assignment in Japan. When things go awry, he has to flee. Badly injured, he takes refuge in a deserted part of a small town.

Fulfilling his filmmaking dream of 40 years, Nobuhiko Obayashi's luminous new feature "Hanagatami" delivers a timeless story of the pureness of youth beset by the chaos of war.

Spring, 1969. The Japanese New Wave, represented on international screens mainly by the films of Nagisa Oshima, reaches new heights. 21-year-old Megumi Yoshizumi goes to Wakamatsu Production. The company makes films popular with young people. Pink film director Koji Wakamatsu gathers there with young talented people who are all fascinated with movie making. When they are not making movies, they spend their time smoking, drinking alcohol, scouting for actresses and looking for material for their next film. When filming begins, everybody immerses themselves into the production and will do everything on the filming set from running, shouting to acting.

Seiji works on construction sites. He sympathizes with Hosaka just back from Thailand. Together, they spend their evenings in bars with Thai girls. On a construction site, they meet Takeru, a member of the hip-hop collective of the city.

A Japanese family acquires an undead domestic servant whose presence begins to affect their daily lives.

The world is full of me.

The film outlines Japanese students movements in the 60s, then shows the formation of the Japanese United Red Army, a communist armed resistance group.

3 people suffering from psychiatric problems, and a doctor stranger than any of them.

A coming of age story about a 13-year-old girl named Nagisa (Seashore) and the summer when she blooms into a woman.

A Japanese teenager bicycles aimlessly through the countryside after killing his mother.

Prodded by a friend request, a forty-something recalls his past relationships from the 90s onward, looking for his vanished hopes and dreams.

Various tales in the lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley.

A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.

Members of a film crew making a soft core porn are dismembered by a demon in a warehouse.

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class men.

Mitsuko, 31, who is getting used to a solo life and has a counselor named "A" in her brain, falls in love with a young man.

After moving into a new house, a family starts acting crazier and crazier.

Punk rock gangs and music groups clash with one another and the brutal police force in a futuristic Tokyo setting.

When Ken, the leader of a once-notorious Tokyo biker gang, falls in love with a barmaid, he quickly loses his rebellious ideals. The rest of the gang feels betrayed, especially the troubled kid Jin, who revolts against his former friend.