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

  6.2

Kamogawa horumô

2009, Japan

• Actors: Takayuki Yamada, Chiaki Kuriyama, Gaku Hamada, Sei Ashina, Takuya Ishida, YosiYosi Arakawa, Tamiyasu Cho, Renji Ishibashi, Takayo Mimura, Maki Okamoto, Hideko Otani, Shota Saito, Keita Saitou, Megumi Satô, Akira Shinomiya, Tsuruko Shofukutei, Papaiya Suzuki, Shinichi Takamatsu, Sora Tôma, Ryota Umebayashi, Masato Wada, Gota Watabe
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Katsuhide Motoki
• Available languages:
  • Japanese Japanese.

University students play an ancient game that involves calling spirits to attack one's opponent.

  6.0

L: Change the World

2008, Japan

• Actors: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Sota Aoyama, Shunji Fujimura, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Mayuko Fukuda, Narushi Fukuda, Sei Hiraizumi, Shigeki Hosokawa, Renji Ishibashi, Yuta Kanai, Youki Kudoh, Tim Man, Bokuzô Masana, Thomas J. Melesky, Shido Nakamura, Kazuki Namioka, Kiyotaka Nanbara, Megumi Satô, Asaka Seto, Ron Smoorenburg, Michael Strusievici, Masanobu Takashima, Yôji Tanaka, Erika Toda, Shingo Tsurumi, David Bueno, Lex de Groot
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
• Director(s): Hideo Nakata
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A spin-off of the popular Death Note films, L: Change The World focuses on the legendary detective L as he uses his final 23 days to solve crimes all over the world. When a young girl and boy come to him for aid, L is soon faced with what may be his most difficult case yet: stopping a group of corrupted scientists from spreading a lethal virus throughout the earth.

  6.0

The Ramen Girl

2008, USA, Japan

• Actors: Brittany Murphy, Kosei Asami, Toshiyuki Nishida, Gabriel Mann, Sohee Park, Akiko Monou, Haruki Kobayashi, Kimiko Yo, Maria Abe, Renji Ishibashi, Daisuke Takahashi, Daniel Evans, Tammy Blanchard, Daigo Tanji, Thane Camus, Hako Ueno, Masayuki Maekawa, Yûya Ogawa, Tomoyuki Kuramoto, Yuta, NaNa, Shinji Suzuki, Ken Toyama, Jûdai Ikeshita, Sachiko Matsuura, Tomiko Ishii, Rei Okamoto, Nichita Tanabe, Ken Maeda, Takaki Uda
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Robert Allan Ackerman
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Abby, four years out of college, an aimless child of privilege, comes to Tokyo to be with her boyfriend, who promptly leaves for Osaka. She wants to stay in Tokyo in hopes he'll come back to her, but she's miserable: she speaks little Japanese and has a dull job as a law-firm gopher. She stumbles into the neighborhood ramen shop operated by the aging master chef Maezumi and his wife Reiko. His soup cheers Abby, so she decides to apprentice herself to him. He's uninterested, she's insistent, so he shouts at her and gives her all the cleaning to do. Weeks go by; she's persistent. Will he ever actually teach her to cook? And if he does, will she bring the requisite spirit to the job?

  7.0

Tokyo!

2008, France, Japan, South Korea, Germany

• Actors: Ayako Fujitani, Ryo Kase, Ayumi Ito, Nao Omori, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Ken Mitsuishi, Yuno Iriguchi, Rie Minemura, Ben Himura, Kenjirô Ishimaru, Taijirô Tamura, Junya Asô, Mayu Harada, Motomi Makiguchi, Hiroko Ninomiya, Ryûsei Saitô, Tomoe Ura, Miho Iiguchi, Akira Osaki, Kayoko Fujii, Takashi Ogasawara, Shingo Ippongi, Shunji Iwai, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Sohee Park, Denis Lavant, Jean-François Balmer, Renji Ishibashi, Toshiyuki Kitami, Kyûsaku Shimada
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
• Director(s): Joon-ho Bong
• Available languages:
  • Japanese Japanese.

Tokyo is a city of transitions in three short films. A young woman who finds her life useless experiences a metamorphosis. A disheveled Caucasian emerges from a manhole to face arrest, trial, and execution; he calls himself "Merde" and speaks a language only his look-alike attorney understands. Is he human? A recluse experiences human contact when a pizza-delivery girl faints at his door during an earthquake. He conquers fear to seek her out. A chair, a corpse, a hermit: sources of urban connection?

  7.0

Gokudô kyôfu dai-gekijô: Gozu

2003, Japan

• Actors: Yûta Sone, Shô Aikawa, Kimika Yoshino, Shôhei Hino, Keiko Tomita, Harumi Sone, Renji Ishibashi, Ken'ichi Endô, Kanpei Hazama, Masaya Katô, Tamio Kawaji, Susumu Kimura, Hiroyuki Nagato, Hitoshi Ozawa, Kazuyoshi Ozawa, Sakichi Satô, Tokitoshi Shiota, Tetsurô Tanba, Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Takashi Miike
• Available languages:
  • Japanese Japanese.

Minami, a member of the Azamawari crew, highly respects his Aniki (brother) Ozaki who has saved his life in the past. However, lately Ozaki's eccentricities (like claiming that a Chihuahua hs sees is a 'Yakuza attack dog') have been making everyone wonder about his sanity. Chairman Azamawari is unsympathetic to Ozaki's little outbursts and secretly orders Minami to take Ozaki to a disposal facility in the city of Nagoya. There, the fate of these two follows a twisted path filled with violence, mother's milk, strange locals, and ultimately the disappearance of Ozaki's corpse which Minami now desperately tries to recover.

  7.7

Cowboy Bebop: Tengoku no tobira

2000, Japan, USA

• Actors: Steve Blum, Martin Halm, Bruno Mullenaerts, Kôichi Yamadera, Beau Billingslea, Unshô Ishizuka, Megumi Hayashibara, Wendee Lee, Yolanda Quesada, Marion Sawatzki, Sabine Bohlmann, Melissa Fahn, Stéphane Flamand, Aoi Tada, Jennifer Hale, Ai Kobayashi, Mickey Curtis, Nicholas Guest, Salvador Aldeguer, Tsutomu Isobe, Arnaud Léonard, Daran Norris, J. Grant Albrecht, Kirk Baily, Ivan Buckley, Frank Catalano, Ewan Chung, Michael Desante, Murphy Dunne, Dorothy Elias-Fahn
• Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Shinichirô Watanabe
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The year is 2071. Following a terrorist bombing, a deadly virus is released on the populace of Mars and the government has issued a 300 million woo-long reward, the largest bounty in history, for the capture of whoever is behind it. The bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop; Spike, Faye, Jet and Ed, take the case with hopes of cashing in the bounty. However, the mystery surrounding the man responsible, Vincent, goes deeper than they ever imagined, and they aren't the only ones hunting him. The original creators of the virus have dispatched Electra to deal with Vincent and take out anyone who may stumble on the truth behind him. As the hunt for the man with no past and no future continues to escalate, they begin to question what about the world is reality and what is a dream as the line between sanity and insanity becomes more apparent.