Films in the Japanese language
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AZUMI 2 (2005)
Certification18 Our Rating
Picking up shortly after the events in the first film the young ninja assassin once again finds herself fighting to prevent Japan from descending in to civil war. A high octane action sequel starring J pop sensation Aya Ueto and taken from the Manga by Yuu Koyama. find out more...
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BAREFOOT GEN (1983)
Certification12 Our Rating
A deeply moving autobiographical account by the manga artist Keiji Nakazawa, who, as a six year old boy living in Hiroshima on August 6th 1945, witnessed the horrific aftermath of the first atomic bomb. Terrible, tragic and utterly hypnotic. find out more...
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BATTLE ROYALE (2001)
Certification18 Our Rating
Japan is reaching a point of economic and social meltdown, school kids are revolting and teachers fear for their lives. In order to make an example the government introduces The Battle Royale Act - a problem class of teenagers are picked and sent to a secluded island where they are each given one weapon and must to fight to the death, with only one survivor permitted, and this year's choice, because one pupil knifed a teacher, is Class B from Zentsuji Middle School. Battle Royale had rave review find out more...
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BATTLE ROYALE 2: REQUIEM (2003)
Certification18 Our Rating
Three years after the government sanctioned the abduction and self-inflicted slaughter of a bus load of Japanese school kids the powers that be are at it again. The two survivors of the original 'Battle Royale' have set up a terrorist group known as the Wild Seven, devoted to the collapse of a brutal law and order. Collars around their necks a new group of unwary teenagers find themselves faced with a harsh ultimatum, wipe out the Wild Seven… or lose your head. 'Battle Royale II' is an entertain find out more...
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BELLE (2021)
Certification12 Our Rating

Suzu is a shy, everyday high school student living in a rural village. For years, she has only been a shadow of herself. But when she enters "U", a massive virtual world, she escapes into her online persona as Belle, a gorgeous and globally-beloved singer. One day, her concert is interrupted by a monstrous creature chased by vigilantes. As their hunt escalates, Suzu embarks on an emotional and epic quest to uncover the identity of this mysterious "beast" and to discover her true self in a wor find out more...

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BIG MAN JAPAN (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
A mockumentary, in this instance of a fictional TV show about an oddball loner slacker, the non charismatic Matsumoto, black sheep of a family of Superheroes, who answers questions about his near non-existent social life whilst periodically metamorphosing into a 30 metre giant who battles monsters. find out more...
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BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL (2017)
Certification18 Our Rating

Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to help a young girl named Rin avenge her parents, who were killed by a group of master swordsmen led by ruthless warrior Anotsu. The mission will change Manji in ways he could never imagine - the 100th find out more...

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BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE (2001)
Certification15 Our Rating
It's the early 70's and America is on the bring of war in Vietnam but within the confines of their top secret base in Yokota, Japan, the overwhelming concern is an invasion of vampires. The only person who seems capable of putting an end to their blood bath is a mysterious young woman...the last of the true vampires. Blood is a visually stunning addition to the Manga pantheon and another leap forward in digital animation. find out more...
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BOILING POINT (1993)
Certification18 Our Rating
A young station attendent takes a slug at the wrong guy and soon becomes embroiled in confrontation with a local yakuza. He sets off to Okinawa to find a gun but instead finds Beat Takeshi, who also is in trouble with his Yakuzab for holding on to the mobs' money. Both need help to get out of their fix. find out more...
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BRANDED TO KILL (1967)
Certification18 Our Rating
Outrageously camp gangster yarn about an assassin who can only achieve sexual excitement by sniffing boiled rice! Ranked No 3 in the Top 10 of underworld hitmen, he polishes off No 2 during a string of spectacular killings, but soon has No 1 hot on his tail. Occasionally mystifying, but always witty, inventive and dazzling. find out more...
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BRIGHT FUTURE (2003)
Certification12 Our Rating
In Tokyo dysfunctional friends Nimura and Mamoru have dead end jobs working part time in a towel laundry. Mamoru's passion is attempting to adapt a venomous jellyfish to fresh water, but his dreams are cut short when in a mindless rage he kills his boss's family and is sentenced to death. Picking up where his friend left off Nimura continues to work on the jellyfish, finally releasing the lethal creature into Tokyo's canal network. A dark, slightly surrealist tale, 'Bright Future' is a bizarre b find out more...
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CASSHERN (2004)
Certification15 Our Rating
The earth has been at war for over half a century, Europa against the Eastern Federation and though the federation has finally won the human race is all but wiped out. Only geneticist Dr Azuma has an answer to their plight and when lightening hits the Doctor's laboratory a new breed of mutants is inadvertently formed, amongst them his recently dead son, a now super human being heralded as humanity's last best hope of survival. Casshern is a mind boggling sci-fi action epic, an apocalyptic Manga find out more...
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CHAOS (2005)
Certification15 Our Rating
With Chaos, Hideo Nakata proves that as well as scaring the heebie-jeebies out of his audiences with horror classics like 'Ring' and 'Dark Water' he can also carry his own with the best psychological thrillers. A woman hires a local handyman to kidnap her and leave her tied up in a friend's apartment. When he returns from collecting the ransom the woman is dead and a sinister phone call tells him to dump the body or risk capture by the police. Hitchcockian in both tone and content, Chaos twists find out more...
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COLD FISH (2010)
Certification12 Our Rating
Poor mild mannered Shamoto is trapped in his little aquarium business with his hot, but frustrated wife and his teen-aged daughter who loathes her step mother and has nothing but contempt for her father. Into their life roars Murata, a fast talking, vaguely sleazy, but oddly friendly rival, who owns a much slicker, larger aquarium business. And maybe he has a little bit of other things going on in the side, in more ways than one. Shamoto is going to get the ride of his life, and he isn't going t find out more...
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CONFESSIONS (2010)
Certification18 Our Rating
A psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter's death. Highly recommended. find out more...
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COWBOY BEBOP: THE MOVIE (2001)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Spike and his motley crew of bounty hunters pace their ship bored and agitated but with the news of a find out more...
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DARK TALES OF JAPAN (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
Originally a TV series in Japan this collection includes 6 tales all firmly set in the J-horror mould. find out more...
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DARK WATER (2002)
Certification18 Our Rating
Yoshimi is in the middle of an ugly divorce and a battle to retain custody of her infant daughter. Forced to find a new place to live, they move into a dank and decrepit block of flats where Yoshimi finds her efforts to start afresh and prove herself a healthy, fit and stable parent tested by the increasingly damp conditions, and repeated but well timed apparitions of a ghostly child in a yellow raincoat. Dark Waters uses the gloomy grey corridors and dampness of the surroundings to create an at find out more...
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DEAD OR ALIVE (1999)
Certification18 Our Rating
Ryuichi is a gangster, Jojima a detective and both are in the middle of a brutal gang war between the Japanese Yakuza and the Chinese Triads. Miiki supposedly throw out most of the script for this movie and replaced it with a series of bizarre deaths. Dead Or Alive is a brutal, frantic and dark thriller from the Japanese master of the avant-garde. find out more...
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DEAD OR ALIVE 2 - BIRDS (2000)
Certification18 Our Rating
Pushing the boundaries farther than in the first of the trilogy Takeshi again takes us into the underworld of Japanese gangsters. When Otamoko is hired to assassinate a gangster he is surprised to find that the job has already been done. Fleeing the city with the money for the job he didn't do, Otamoko has to keep the Yakuza and the Triads off of his tail. Returning to his home island he realises that the other assassin is someone from his past and they team up to eat noodles together, reminisce find out more...