6.9

Autoreiji

2010, Japan

• Actors: Takeshi Kitano, Ryo Kase, Eihi Shiina, Jun Kunimura, Takashi Tsukamoto, Kippei Shiina, Renji Ishibashi, Yuka Itaya, Naoko Watanabe, Tomokazu Miura, Fumiyo Kohinata, Tetta Sugimoto, Hideo Nakano, Kenta Elizabeth III, Masaki Miura, Kenji Morinaga, Akiko Kobayashi, Tokio Emoto, Makita Sports, Sôichirô Kitamura, Yukiyo Tanahashi, Tadashi Sakata, Jun'ichi Nitta, Kenji Ohhara, Tomo Uchino, Yuya Takayama, Junko Nakamura, Tsutomu Tsuji
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Director(s): Takeshi Kitano
• Available languages:
  • Japanese Japanese.

The plot concerns a struggle for power amongst Tokyo's Yakuza clans, today just as likely to be playing the stock market as shaking down pachinko parlors, over which the Sanmo-kai clan holds sway in the face of constant betrayal and ever-changing allegiances. Sanmo-kai chairman Ototomo (played by Kitano himself) learns that his henchman Ikemoto has struck an alliance with the drug-dealing Murase family, and is not best pleased, to say the least. The ensuing retaliation triggers an orgy of killings, territorial invasions and score settling while law enforcement officers, too corrupt to intervene

  5.8

Silk

2007, Canada, France, Italy, UK, Japan

• Actors: Sei Ashina, Michael Pitt, Tony Vogel, Toni Bertorelli, Keira Knightley, Kenneth Welsh, Martha Burns, Alfred Molina, Michael Golding, Carlo Cecchi, Chiara Stampone, Marc Fiorini, Leslie Csuth, Toru Tezuka, Hiroya Morita, Akinori Ando, Jun Kunimura, Kanata Hongô, Kôji Yakusho, Dimitri Carella, Dominick Carella, Callum Keith Rennie, Naoko Watanabe, Honjo Hidetaro, Nana Nagao, Saki Aoi, Hiroshi Ohguchi, Michio Akahane, Yuya Takagawa, Tarô Suwa
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Director(s): François Girard
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A married silkworm smuggler, Herve Joncour, in 19th Century France who travels to Japan to collect his clandestine cargo. While there he spots a beautiful Japanese woman, the concubine of a local baron, with whom he becomes obsessed. Without speaking the same language, they communicate through letters until war intervenes. Their unrequited love persists however, and Herve's wife Helene begins to suspect.

  6.8

Vital

2004, Japan

• Actors: Tadanobu Asano, Nami Tsukamoto, Kiki, Kazuyoshi Kushida, Ririi, Hana Kino, Gô Rijû, Jun Kunimura, Ittoku Kishibe, Masato Tsujioka
• Genre: Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Shinya Tsukamoto
• Available languages:
  • Japanese Japanese.

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 book about dissection, he decides to join the medical school with the support of his parents. In the dissection class, his group participates of the autopsy of a young woman, and while cutting apart the tissue, he partially recalls his accident. Later, when he sees a tattoo in the arm of the corpse, he discloses that she was his girlfriend and becomes obsessed to go further in the examination of the body.

  8.2

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

2002, USA

• Actors: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, David Carradine, Michael Madsen, Julie Dreyfus, Chiaki Kuriyama, Sonny Chiba, Chia Hui Liu, Michael Parks, Michael Bowen, Jun Kunimura, Kenji Ohba, Yuki Kazamatsuri, James Parks, Sakichi Satô, Jonathan Loughran, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Tetsuro Shimaguchi, Kazuki Kitamura, Yôji Tanaka, Issei Takahashi, Satoshi Yamanaka, Julie Manase, Akaji Maro, Goro Daimon, Shun Sugata, Zhang Jin Zhan, Xiaohui Hu
• Genre: Crime, Thriller
• Director(s): Quentin Tarantino
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The lead character, called 'The Bride,' was a member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, lead by her lover 'Bill.' Upon realizing she was pregnant with Bill's child, 'The Bride' decided to escape her life as a killer. She fled to Texas, met a young man, and on the day of their wedding rehearsal was gunned down by an angry and jealous Bill (with the assistance of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad). Four years later, 'The Bride' wakes from a coma, and discovers her baby is gone. She, then, decides to seek revenge upon the five people who destroyed her life and killed her baby. The saga of Kill Bill Volume I begins.

  7.1

Koroshiya 1

2001, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea

• Actors: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori, Shinya Tsukamoto, Paulyn Sun, Susumu Terajima, Shun Sugata, Toru Tezuka, Yoshiki Arizono, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Satoshi Niizuma, Suzuki Matsuo, Jun Kunimura, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Moro Morooka, Houka Kinoshita, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Mai Goto, Rio Aoki, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Setchin Kawaya, Yuki Kazamatsuri, Sakichi Satô, Kaori Sugawara, Hideo Sako, Mako Takeda, Masataka Haji
• Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Takashi Miike
• Available languages:
  • Japanese Japanese.

When a Yakuza boss named Anjo disappears with 300 million yen, his chief henchman, a sadomasochistic man named Kakihara, and the rest of his mob goons go looking for him. After capturing and torturing a rival Yakuza member looking for answers, they soon realize they have the wrong man and begin looking for the man named Jijii who tipped them off in the first place. Soon enough Kakihara and his men encounter Ichi, a psychotic, sexually-repressed young man with amazing martial arts abilities and blades that come out of his shoes. One by one Ichi takes out members of the Yakuza and all the while Kakihara intensifies his pursuit of Ichi and Ichi's controller Jijii. What will happen as the final showdown happens between the tortured and ultra-violent Ichi and the pain-craving Kakihara?

  8.0

Lat sau san taam

1992, Hong Kong

• Actors: Yun-Fat Chow, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Teresa Mo, Philip Chan, Philip Kwok, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Hoi-Shan Kwan, Wei Tung, Bowie Lam, Meng Lo, Bobbie Au-Yeung, Shui Ting Ng, Kong Lau, Wai-Sun Lam, Benny Lam, Kenny Lam, Michael Dingo, Hoi-Shan Lai, Jun Kunimura, John Woo
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): John Woo
• Available languages:
  • Chinese Chinese.

Mobsters are smuggling guns into Hong Kong. The police orchestrate a raid at a teahouse where an ace detective loses his partner. Meanwhile, the two main gun smugglers are having a war over territory, and a young new gun is enlisted to wipe out informants and overcome barriers to growth. The detective, acting from inside sources, gets closer to the ring leaders and eventually must work with the inside man directly.

  6.5

Black Rain

1988, USA

• Actors: Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura, Kate Capshaw, Yusaku Matsuda, Shigeru Kôyama, John Spencer, Guts Ishimatsu, Yûya Uchida, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Miyuki Ono, Luis Guzmán, John Costelloe, Stephen Root, Richard Riehle, Bruce Katzman, Edmund Ikeda, Tomo Nagasue, Clem Caserta, Tim Kelleher, George Kyle, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Joe Perce, Louis Cantarini, Doug Yasuda, Toshio Sato, Jun Kunimura, Roy K. Ogata, Shirô Oishi, Professor Toru Tanaka
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Ridley Scott
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game the Japanese way.