Harakiri

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his r…

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittô…

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.

คิงโกะ กอนโด ประธานบริษัทผลิตรองเท้า กำลังวางแผนซื้อหุ้นเพื่อควบคุมกิจการ แต่แล้วเขากลับได้รับโทรศัพท์ขู่กรรโชก โดยคนร้ายอ้างว่าจับตัวลูกชายของเขาไปเรียกค่าไถ่ ทว่าความจริงปรากฏว่าเด็กที่ถูกจับคือลูกชายของคนขับรถของเขา กอนโดต้องเลือกระหว่าง…

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuri…

คนขับเชี่ยวชาญในการขับรถหลบหนีเพื่อปล้น พรสวรรค์พิเศษของเขาทําให้เขาไม่สามารถถูกจับได้ หลังจากประสบความสําเร็จอีกครั้งจากตํารวจนักสืบที่มั่นใจในตัวเองทําให้เป้าหมายหลักของเขาคือการจับคนขับ เขาสัญญาว่าจะให้อภัยแก่แก๊งหากพวกเขาช่วยตัดสินว่าเข…

A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expens…

Ichiko bakes a cake for an end-of-year party with her friends. In the depths of winter, making mochi and curry keeps the people of Komori warm. Later, spring brings thoughts of her absent mother as well as rice planting and sakura, and she …

Odd couple Ivo Salvini, recently released from a mental asylum, and former prefect Gonnella wander through the countryside and discover a dystopia made of television commercials, beauty pageants, rock music, Catholicism, and pagan rituals.

An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer.

A man in a gleaming white suit comes to a small Southern town on the eve of integration. He calls himself a social reformer. But what he does is stir up trouble--trouble he soon finds he can't control.

A man awakes to find himself trapped in a dirty, confined crawlspace. He barely has enough room to move. He also has no memory of why he's there, or why he's bleeding from a stomach wound. Apparently drugged, he occasionally 'zones out' of …

Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sami girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930s and phrenological examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life she has to become someone else and b…

Marco returns to Paris after his brother-in-law's suicide, where he targets the man his sister believes caused the tragedy – though he is ill-prepared for her secrets as they quickly muddy the waters.

Kresten, newly wed, is on the threshold of a great career success in his father-in-law’s company. But when the death of his own father takes him back to his poverty-stricken childhood home, far out in the country, his career plans fall apar…

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valo…

Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo provide his models. A world of passion swirls around him, as the women in his life vie for lovers. And, occasionally, his art gets him into tro…

2 มือปืนถูกส่งให้ไปปฏิบัติภารกิจลับนั่นคือการกำจัด สมาชิกขององค์กรที่ทรยศคิดจะสร้างองค์กรใหม่ที่เกาะมาเก๊าขึ้น แต่เรื่องกลับไม่ง่ายนัก เมื่อ 2 คนในนั้นซึ่งเป็นเพื่อนเก่าของเขาคิดจะทำลายแผนการนี้ลงให้จงได้ และพวกเขาทั้ง 5 คนเองก็เคยร่วมงานด้…

Having returned from the army, 20-year-old Sergei settles down at the thermal power station and merges into ordinary life. Every day he meets and spends time with childhood friends — the young family man Slava and the merry fellow Nikolai, …