Taka Okubo

Love Exposure

Sion Sono

Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima

The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an "up-skirt" photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.

埋もれ木

Kôhei Oguri

Karen, Tadanobu Asano

Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mountainous and bordered by an unkempt buried forest.

バカヤロー！4 YOU！お前のことだよ

Hikari Ota, Tomoyuki Akaishi

Koasa Shunpûtei, Kimie Shingyôji

任侠外伝　玄海灘

Juro Kara

Noboru Andô, Jinpachi Nezu

Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean women, meet a stowaway on Japanese soil from across the Genkai Sea.

酔いがさめたら、うちに帰ろう。

Yōichi Higashi

Tadanobu Asano, Hiromi Nagasaku

War photjournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children. Because of Yasayuki's drinking problems the couple divorced. Yasuyuki is now coughing up blood, hospitalized, and violent. Even with all of these problems Yasuyuki can't give up drinking alcohol. His family gets tired. Yasuyuki is then hospitalized in an alcoholic ward. There he finds comfort living with other patients and having conversations with doctors. With the help of his family, Yasuyuki recovers mentally and physically, but his body has already paid a heavy toll.

A Warm Ray of Light

Masato Ozawa

Miwako Wagatsuma, Kurando Mitsutake

Misaki, living a lonely life in Tokyo for college; decides to go back home to Fukushima for a month on her spring break. But by coming home without a notice, her mother would not welcome her nor let her in the house. She wanders around trying to find a friend to let her stay and fails miserably but ends up finding a small hotel called "Komorebi" looking for a short time live-in worker. There, she starts living with a kind and trustworthy woman, Kinuyo, and a hurt and depressed owner, Goro. A girl with a broken up family and a man with a dark past; their paths in life cross over as they start to change slowly...

幽閉者　テロリスト

Masao Adachi

Tomorowo Taguchi, Taka Okubo

During a suicide attack on an airport, the hand grenade of 'M', one of three terrorists, malfunctions, leaving him captured. Exposed to maltreatment in prison, he slowly loses his grip on reality as he is forced to confront his ideological convictions.

毛の生えた拳銃

Atsushi Yamatoya

Ken Yoshizawa, Akaji Maro

Shirō raids the office of the organization that attacked his lover, wreaking havoc and escaping with a stolen handgun. In retaliation, the organization hires two killers to get rid of Shirō. The duo begin to develop a strange kinship with their target...

新宿泥棒日記

Nagisa Ōshima

Tadanori Yokoo, Rie Yokoyama

In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.

クレープ

Jun Ichikawa

Masashi Tashiro, Kaho Minami

Based on the story of the same name by Shizuka Ijûin. Ran as a double feature with Chibusa (1993).

夜を賭けて

Kim Sujin

Jun Fubuki, Mansaku Fuwa

When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble of a destroyed shantytown they plan to haul it out for profit. Amidst this plan there is discrimination, war and an infatuation between a man and a woman, but like everything around them there and owing to the forces around them, there is as much chance that these may burn to ashes and be destroyed or be the beginning of something new.

荒野のダッチワイフ

Atsushi Yamatoya

Yuichi Minato, Shôhei Yamamoto

A wealthy real estate investor is forced to watch the rape of his girlfriend and then is sent a film showing the fact. He hires a hitman, Sho, and shows him the film, so that the detective can get rid of the criminals. But the boss of the criminal band is Ko, Sho's archnemesis, who raped and murdered his girlfriend.

プ

Mikio Yamazaki

Koichi Sato, Tomorowo Taguchi

A wanderer and his son arrive on an obscure northern island of Japan, causing the village of Pu to fall into disarray.

芸者ｖｓ忍者 / Geisha vs Ninja

Gô Ohara

Minami Tsukui, Shigeru Kanai

One rainy night in the Edo period, Kotono (a geisha) confronts samurais who killed her father. The samurais attack her one after another, but she fights hard against samurais with her sword. Kotono tries to chase the samurais who scramble to escape. Yet now three ninjas stand up against her. Kotono drops her sword by their wave of assaults. Can she beat them?

金瓶梅

Kōji Wakamatsu

Tomoko Mayama, Kazuko Wakamatsu

Dark, cynical Japanese epic brought to U.S. in a dubbed version by shlockmeister Harry Novak. Still, this gory, sexy epic is made with style and interesting for to compare to "Yojimbo" and other masterworks of the form.

Like a Desperado Under The Eaves

Shinji Aoyama

Yôichirô Saitô, Yuko Nakamura

The main character Akihiko lives in an old apartment. He plays the guitar and sings his own pieces on the street, but this cannot be called his dream. He has a girlfriend. The owner of the apartment next-door constantly repeats Buddhist prayers night and day. On the floor above, there lives a strange middle-aged man who wants to be kicked out of the apartment. Such an ordinary day exists. Akihiko is standing still on the street at dawn.