Akaji Maro
Birthday: 1943-02-23
Place of Birth: Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, Japan
Biography: Akaji Maro (麿 赤児 Maro Akaji, born February 23, 1943) is a Japanese actor, butoh performer, and theater director. He is the founder of Dairakudakan. One of his sons is the film director Tatsushi Ōmori; another is the actor Nao Ōmori.
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Kikujiro
Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined...
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Doomsday Detective
Shinjiro, who runs a humble detective agency using a coffee shop in a certain town as his office, ge...
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Pornostar
A young man decides one day to start killing yakuza. After he kills his first two he gets roped into...
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Suicide Club
When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the begi...
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Gemini
When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer m...
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The Trap
When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I wan...
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Postman Blues
Sawaki is a postman who's not quite thrilled about his boring way of life. But his life is about to ...
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The City of Lost Souls
Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported f...
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Be a Man!! Samurai School
Momotaro and Hidemaro are 1st-years at Otokojuku, a private boys school where true men are made. Mom...
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Nagaremono Yokohama Yakuza War
The life and death of the men who are bound by violence....
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Shangri-La
Shangri-La follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly co...
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Lie Lie Lie
Hatano is living as an insomniac freelance typesetter alone in his bayside apartment. One day, Aikaw...
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Yakuza Weapon
After four years overseas, Shozo returns to Japan to avenge his yakuza boss who was assassinated by ...
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Dark Harbour
Manzo is a fisherman in a small seaside community who lives and works alone, but longs for a relatio...
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Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts
An exploration of the spirit world as portrayed in the height of the J-horror era of the late ‘90s....
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Boxer Joe
A docudrama about the boxer Jôichirô Tatsuyoshi. The documentary part follows Tatsuyohi for 18 month...
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A Last Note
A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters w...
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The Room
A quiet killer is looking for a room. The real state agent, shy and expressionless, guides him throu...
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Ox-Head Village
Having launched a social media prank about a haunted building, three girls suddenly vanish. Rumours ...
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Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a b...
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Zigeunerweisen
A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through...
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Tonbi
Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (late...
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Utsushimi
This faux-documentary follows a butoh master, a fashion designer, and a filmmaker racing against tim...
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Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands
A wealthy real estate investor is forced to watch the rape of his girlfriend and then is sent a film...
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Tenshi tsukinuke rokuchoume
Noboru (Taku Manabe) finds himself in a very difficult situation. The factory he’s been working at h...
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All Under the Moon
A Korean taxi-driver interacts both humorously and tragically with his customers and employers in '9...
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The Pistol That Sprouted Hair
Shirō raids the office of the organization that attacked his lover, wreaking havoc and escaping with...
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Crazy Camel
‘Many people have a preconception about butoh — that it is performed by dancers whose bodies are pai...
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Making of Gemini
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's film "Gemini"....
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Mitsugetsu
Tetsuaki's struggling to write a novel while his mother fades; Mitsuko's engagement has been forced ...
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Dreams on Fire
Fleeing to Tokyo with the hopes that she can fulfil her dream of becoming a dancer, Yume is met with...
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Ginji - The Slasher
In prison for 50 years after massacring his corrupt workmates with a samurai sword in 1945, Ginji So...
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle ...
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Kill Bill: Vol. 2
The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who...
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Into a Dream
Low-profile theater troop actor Mutsugoro Suzuki begins an oneiric journey back to his hometown, mar...
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An Angel with Many Scars
An odd journey starts as Mitsuru, a private detective, and a boy, whom a dying mobster entrusts to h...
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The Most Terrible Time in My Life
Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter n...
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Circus Boys
Two brothers, Jinta and Wataru, are raised in a travelling circus. After an accident, Jinta decides ...
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Awakening
After the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy marriag...
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Toy Reanimator
Set in a toy store specialized in antique toys, a boy works in the toy store and is obsessed with ti...
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Shinran: Path to Purity
In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school...
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Dangan Runner
A would-be bank robber forgets his mask on his first big heist, and then botches an attempt to shopl...
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The Stairway to the Distant Past
Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing th...
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We Make Antiques! Osaka Dreams
A treasure appears in front of antique dealer Norio Koike (Kiichi Nakai) and potter Sasuke (Kuranosu...
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9 Souls
After discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track dow...
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Akame 48 Waterfalls
A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange character...
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Disconcerto
Set within the fictional city of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada runs a "benriya" - a general problem solver fo...
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Hanako of the Toilet
When a young girl discovers that her new middle school is the same one her sister mysteriously disap...
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TAP: Perfect Education
In Okinawa, a down-and-out middle-aged yakuza underling named Shidara kidnaps and confines a high sc...
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Born to Be Baby
A detective, a mysterious beauty Ekin and other characters appear in the film. It creates a mysterio...
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Monday
A simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless...
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The Whispering of the Gods
Rou has returned to the monastery he was raised in. As he listens to the whispering of the Gods thro...
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Golden Flower: What Is Hidden Is the True Flower, What Is Gone Is the Butterfly
Nursing home "Yuyoso". Many lonely old people live there, including botanist Taro Makiso, a physicis...
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Heisei Irresponsible Family: Tokyo de Luxe
The members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their hom...
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Persona
Into the bully-infested home room class struts a fearless, ceramic-masked student. Squarely confront...
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Tada's Do-It-All House
In Mahoro, the fictional suburb of Tokyo, Tada works as a general problem solver for hire. One day, ...
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SPEC: Heaven
Saya Toma is a female detective with an IQ of 201. Takeru Sebumi is a career detective with a distin...
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En moi
A movie director goes to the Paris Opera to shoot his new film. Lacking inspiration, he looks for wa...
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Evil Spirits in the Darkness
The film depicts the youth of Kinzo, a heretic painter who worked in Tosa during the late Edo period...
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The Naked Summer
The Naked Summer is a film that documents young artists' effort and growth while training and prepar...
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Shin-Karajishi Kabushiki-Kaisha
Remake of Chusei Sone's 1983 comedy about a yakuza family trying their luck in show business....
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Hanezu
Woodwork artist Takumi moves to the small village Asuka in Nara Prefecture. He remodels old homes an...
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Moonlight Serenade
After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his brother af...
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The Dropout
Detective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was ostensi...
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The Outer Way
The cop Himuro is picked as scapegoat by his superiors because of their own involvement in sokaiya g...
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Wild Flowers
Real pro wrestlers Mizuho Ishikawa, Cutie Suzuki and Emi Tojyo star alongside newcomer Miki Suzuki a...
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Neko Ninja
Kagerota is a young ninja who embarks on his first mission: stealing the goldfish from a wealthy sam...
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GARO Special: Beast of the Demon Night
In the aftermath events of GARO: Chapter of the Black Wolf, Saejima Kouga sets out to the northern d...
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A Light in the Distance
Mado wakes up in the morning finding all the people disappeared. Hearing a strong typhoon might stri...
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The Pod of Good Fortune
Ryosaku, a struggling actor, endures daily abuse from his wicked wife. One day, the janitor of his a...
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Fly me to the Saitama
People from Saitama Prefecture are persecuted and, because of this, they hide the fact that they are...
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Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
"Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis" is a visually striking film portrait shot on location in Japan w...
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Hell Girl
Tormented and bullied people can access a special website, run by a Hell Girl who will enable them t...
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Sekigahara
The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...
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Birdsong
Tokyo. Asuka, a young cleaning lady working the night shift, is ready to pay a high price to achieve...
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Ghost Master
Akira Kurosawa is a nerdy movie buff who works on low budget romantic comedies while dreaming of bec...
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Yumeji
Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter...
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The Emperor in August
In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A c...
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Guard Dog
A tough and violent battle ensues between Hikaru Gotokuji, who's been assigned as the bodyguard for ...
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The Nearest Place to the Sky
Kitagawa, a top salesman with an impressive record, is hiding a dark secret—he borrowed the 9 millio...
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Why Don't You Play in Hell?
In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war ...
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The Notorious Concubines
Dark, cynical Japanese epic brought to U.S. in a dubbed version by shlockmeister Harry Novak. Still,...
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Kagero-za
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife....
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Sukiyaki
Kenta Kurihara (Tasuku Nagaoka) is sent to prison for battery. In his cell he is referred to as the ...
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Knockout
A Japanese boxer stages a dramatic and dangerous comeback after suffering brain damage in the ring....
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Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles: Legend of Yagyu Part 1
Yuko Moriyama stars in this ninja period piece as one of seven women determined to exact revenge on ...
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Kazura
Bald Moriyama wants a new image and buys a wig. It works: suddenly he has a career and a girlfriend....
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Kakekomi
Kakekomi tells the stories of Edo women in the 1800s that escape abusive husbands and lovers by taki...
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The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the po...
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Zipang Punk Goemon Rock III
Goemon Ishikawa steals a golden statue from Yukari Kukai with female thief Neko no Me Ogin, but Priv...
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Ready to Shoot
A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho...
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Damejin
An off-beat comedy about 3 'damejin' (useless persons), who don't work and spend their lives doing n...
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Cat's Eye
Three cat burgling sisters have to go up against the police and a Chinese crime syndicate in order t...
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Drive
Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his van...
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KT
This movie is a political/espionage thriller, based on a real kidnapping incident of Korean politici...
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Pacchigi! Love & Peace
In 1974, during the height of the recession, a Japanese Korean family relocates to Tokyo to raise mo...
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Unlucky Monkey
A dark and strange comedy about a bank robber with bad luck. Bungling a bank robbery turns out to be...
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Postcard
Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrad...
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That's Cunning! Shijo Saidai no Sakusen?
Comedy about a group of chemistry students who organize a cheating scam during their final exams. Am...
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Samurai Resurrection
Shiro Amasuka, dead leader of the Shimbara Revolt is resurrected from hell with the desire of overth...
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The Motive
Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims app...
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Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
Asahiyama Zoo in Hokkaido, is the northernmost zoo in Japan. The unpopular zoo welcomes a new zoo ke...
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The Projects
Whether it's someone mixing burnables and recyclables or noise from a neighbor's domestic spat, ther...
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Shaolin Girl
A Shaolin-trainer young woman returns to Japan to resuscitate her grandfather's defunct martial arts...
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Check
Set in Osaka's Shinsekai, the film depicts the lives of Ayumu Tobita (Hidekazu Akai), who makes a li...
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Madness in Bloom
Yamaguchi, Ichikawa and Kosuge dress in white military-style uniforms to "clean" the streets of Shib...
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Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
A former assassin—known only as The Bride—wakes up from a coma after her former boss and lover, Bill...
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Under the Turquoise Sky
Takeshi grew up spoiled in an affluent family. One day his businessman grandfather Saburo sends him ...
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Tales of the Bizarre 25th Anniversary Spring Special: Popular Manga Artist Competition
Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the series. In this work, we collaborate with five popular man...
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Will to Live
It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution...
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Crazy Love
Correlated with Susan Sontag's theorization of kitsch as well as employing the queer lingo of "camp,...
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Lupin's Daughter: The Movie
Am I really the daughter of a thieves family? Hana Mikumo, daughter of the "L family", a family of t...
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Love Will Tear Us Apart
Wakaba saves her classmate Koki who was being bullied. From then on, people who are involved with Wa...
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Kaiju Guy!
Yamada, a good-for-nothing local civil servant who just loves monster movies, is suddenly given a hu...
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Or Utopia
Japan, 2024. The Earth is dominated by a mysteriously giant creature (That Thing) and the group of 1...
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Pandora Hong Kong Leg
Mayuko suffers from severe athlete's foot. She visits a mysterious Chinese man, Zhou, in search of a...
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We Are Aliens
One day, while Seiya was calling everybody on the phone to tell them "It's me, thank you" on the roo...
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Death of the Lion Kings
Tells the story of an up-and-coming Yakuza, who makes a name for himself alongside his two friends j...
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Hell Bento: Uncovering the Japanese Underground
An exploration of underground Japanese counter-culture including the Yakuza, the nationalists, the g...
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