Sonatine
(1993) [MA]

SONATINE is a masterwork from legendary writer, actor and director Takeshi Kitano. Kitano is Murakawa, a yakuza chief sent to Okinawa to settle a dispute between two factions. Several of his men die is suspicious circumstances so Murakawa and the rest of the gang retreat to a remote beach house...  More

Boiling Point
(1990) [M]

In Takeshi Kitano's quirky second film, Masaki (Masahiko Ono), a quiet baseball-playing gas station attendant, runs into trouble with the local yakuza. Masaki's baseball coach, Iguchi (Takahito Iguchi), turns out to be a former yakuza and attempts to straighten out the situation but only winds up...  More

Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
(2001) [PG]

When an American submarine is mysteriously destroyed at sea- it can only mean one thing-Godzilla has returned! An investigative journalist meets a strange old man named Isayama who claims that, aside from Nuclear Energy; Godzilla is made up of vengeful souls from the Pacific War- and therefore...  More

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Studio Ghibli)
(1984) [PG]

A thousand years after a great war, a seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind is one of the only areas that remains populated. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaa, the people of the Valley are engaged in a constant struggle with powerful insects called ohmu, who guard a poisonous...  More

Godzilla 2000
(1999) [PG]

Godzilla returns- destroying the city of Nemuro in Japan. A 60 million year old rock is discovered in the bay. When Godzilla blasts the rock with his atomic breath a UFO emerges. Soon the UFO transforms into the beast Orga and a battle between the giants threatens to destroy all mankind. Will...  More

The Twilight Samurai
(2003) [M]

Set in feudal Japan, Seibei is a low ranking Samurai and a widower, with two young daughters and an aging mother to support. One day, he encounters Tomoe, a childhood friend and beautiful divorcee and the two quickly strike up a friendship. Fearing he is too poor to make an offer of marriage to...  More

Red Beard
(1965) [M]

The last collaboration between Kurosawa and the powerhouse actor Toshiro Mifune, Red Beard is the story of a young and arrogant medical graduate. Assigned to serve at an impoverished local clinic, Dr Yasumoto feels he is better than his surroundings. His superior is Dr Niide- known as 'Red Beard'...  More

Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto
(1954) [PG]

Hiroshi Inagaki's acclaimed Samurai Trilogy is based on the novel that has been called Japan's Gone with the Wind. This sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai Musashi Miyamoto (powerfully portrayed by Toshiro Mifune) plays out against the turmoil of a devastating civil war....  More

Scandal (Kurosawa)
(1950) [PG]

Ichiro is a young painter on holiday in the mountains. By chance he meets Miyako- a famous singer who is staying at the same hotel. Wanting privacy, Miyako is uncooperative with the press and soon a tabloid magazine falsely suggests a scandalous relationship between the singer and the young...  More

The Eel
(1997) [R]

White-collar worker Yamashita finds out that his wife has a lover visiting her when he's away, suddenly returns home and kills her. After eight years in prison, he returns to live in a small village, opens a barber shop (he was trained as a barber in prison) and talks almost to no-one except for...  More