Movies: Kou Machida

Junoshin Kake is a ronin. To get hired by the Kurokaze Han, he lies and tells them that a religious group is trying to destroy them. He gets hired by the Kurokaze Han, but they learn that Junoshin Kake lied. Junoshin Kake is given the death sentence ...

Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki....

A timid insurance agent investigates a possible insurance fraud case that involves a death. As the facts are slowly revealed, he becomes progressively more frightened....

A teenage girl gains supernatural power after an accident and comes to understand her place in the universe....

A love story in the style of a psycho-thriller, depicting the relationship between a female police officer who continues to have an affair and the men who surround her, along with the progress of a bizarre incident. Due to various circumstances, the ...

An actress suffering from an identity crisis finds herself spirited away from the bustle of Tokyo to a tropical paradise....

Minako, a Tokyo housewife, is depressed that everyone has an active life outside the home except her. Taking her inspiration from TV reports of a hitch-hiking chainsaw murderer, Minako decides to spice up her life by finding a young lover and running...

Kumi lives a hippie-like life in Tokyo's outskirts. One night while drunk she stumbles into an abandoned industrial site, except in addition to deserted factories, it is full of forests and greenery. She decides to move there, even further away from ...

An autobiographical docudrama about an attempt to remake Alain Resnais' 1959 film "Hiroshima Mon Amour"....

A down-on-his luck writer meets a movie producer, who asks him to write a screenplay on the condition that he visit locations for the film. Chaos ensues....

Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living....

Junk Food consists of four intertwining stories. The first and fourth sections show the morning routine of an blind, old Japanese woman, waking up, buying bread and milk, praying at the family altar; however, it is the second segment where the true s...

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"Atlanta Boogie" centers around a mock track meet between the "normal" and "good" citizens of Yokohama and those they want to expel from the neighborhood: the illegal foreign workers, the deadbeats, the juvenile delinquents, and elderly....

A washed-up former punk rocker is frustrated by his work at his grandmother's hot spring. He returns to Tokyo and finds himself entangled in a web of crime....

Young Wakana is the daughter of a husband and wife comedy act, who have worked together for 20 years without any big success. Wakana’s parents quarrel constantly, and her mother often threatens to leave. When one day her father disappears, Wakana set...

Set in Hakodate in the summer, this is a retro-inspired coming-of-age drama about a love triangle between a sister and brother who are like lovers and a young man....

An in-depth and stylish look at the hardcore punk scene in Japan at the late half of the 70's and the beginning of the 80's. Features bands such as GASTUNK, THE EXECUTE, GAUZE among others....

Three digital short films: 'Influenza' by Bong Joon-ho, 'Kyo-shin' by Sogo Ishii, 'Dance Me to the End of Love' by Yu Lik-wai...

A film on the meaning of art, Session 1: Kingdom of Inertia, Session 2: 4.6 Billion Years of Solitude...