Yo-Yo Girl Cop (2006)

Summary: Recruited by a clandestine police organization, "K" must stop a plot by student radicals to create anarchy in Japan. Armed with a hi-tech steel yo-yo, and a new name (Asamiya Saki), she must infiltrate an elite high school to find...

Release Date: September 30, 2006

Genre: Action

Director: Kenta Fukasaku

Writers: Shoichi Maruyama

, Shinji Wada

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Fukasaku-gumi, Toei Company, Artists House Investment, Chase Film Co., Japan Amusement Agency, Point Break Pictures, Seikodo, TV Tokyo Music, TV Tokyo, The Yomiuri Shimbun, Toei Video Company, Upfront Agency

Distributor: Magnolia Home Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Onigiri (2004)

Summary: A couple flees Tokyo, their family and friends. The girlfriend is a member of a rock band. She is dating the man, but friends and family are against it compelling her to move away. They stay at an inn in an area in which they know...

Release Date: April 17, 2004

Genre: Drama

Director: Kôichi Saitô

Writers: Taro Ikeda

, Kôichi Saitô

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Gozu (2003)

Summary: A yakuza enforcer is ordered to secretly drive his beloved colleague to be assassinated. But when the colleague unceremoniously disappears en route, the trip that follows is a twisted, surreal and horrifying experience.

Release Date: July 14, 2004

Genres: Drama, Crime, Horror

Director: Takashi Miike

Writer: Sakichi Sato

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: R

Production: Rakueisha, The Klockworx

Distributor: Pathfinder Pictures, Cinema Epoch

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 58,202

Four Days of Snow and Blood (1989)

Summary: Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents ...

Genres: Action, Drama, War

Director: Hideo Gosha