Release Date: 1990-09-15

Overview: Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.

Rating: 6.89 (205 votes)

Release Date: 2021-11-03

Overview: A lonely young man moves in a 50-year-old apartment building. When he meets the cheerful residents, he finds himself surrounded by small happiness.

Rating: 6.5 (14 votes)

Release Date: 1988-09-02

Overview: A religious brother and sister endure alone together in the post-apocalyptic Outback, until the sudden arrival of a stranger who helps them build a crude plane to fly out of the desert.

Rating: 5.8 (28 votes)

Release Date: 1989-12-15

Overview: A Dickensian mock-Gothic tale of resourceful children, evil governesses, forged wills, cruel orphanages, and goodness triumphant set against an isolated country house, in an alternate 19th century where savage packs of wolves roam the snowbound countryside.

Rating: 5.6 (13 votes)

Release Date: 1984-08-03

Overview: Mistakenly believing that she has just weeks to live, teenager Leslie Hindenberg tries to lose her virginity before she dies.

Rating: 4.089 (28 votes)

Release Date: 2004-12-24

Overview: Jam Films 2 features 4 short films by different Japanese directors.

Rating: 5.2 (4 votes)

Release Date: 2014-02-01

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Rating: 6.3 (2 votes)

Release Date: 1996-12-28

Overview: A father loses his short-term memory as the result of a botched medical procedure which causes him to develop Wernicke's Encephalopathy. Koreeda chronicles his family’s fight to receive proper treatment and benefits from this devastating malpractice.

Rating: 6.4 (10 votes)

Release Date: 1986-03-24

Overview: Stuck doing show-biz schlock, an investigative reporter stumbles on a scheme to swindle pensions through an attractive gold futures scam, a potential news-story.

Rating: 6 (6 votes)

Release Date: 1919-02-09

Overview: Lloyd is a serious young middle-class guy on the make who wants to marry the boss’ daughter. The problem is getting in to see the boss so that he can ask for her hand in marriage as the office is guarded by a bunch of comic, clumsy flunkies who throw everyone out who tries to get in.

Rating: 6.5 (24 votes)

Release Date: 2006-06-02

Overview: Gabai Granny is based on the bestseller Saga No Gabai Baachan (Gabai Granny from Saga), which is penned by comedian Shimada Yoshichi as he recounts his childhood memories of growing up under the care of his grandmother.

Rating: 7.3 (3 votes)

Release Date: 2008-07-18

Overview: Three hot girls, four guys, and one mega-swanky yacht collide for a serious night of drugs and sexual deviancy. One debaucherous act goes too far though, turning this teen joy ride into a weekend of bloody bedlam.

Rating: 4.742 (159 votes)

Release Date: 2008-09-20

Overview: Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.

Rating: 7 (100 votes)

Release Date: 1989-01-25

Overview: A chilling depiction of a series of violent killings during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Rating: 6.536 (96 votes)

Release Date: 2005-07-21

Overview: A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star.

Rating: 7.7 (135 votes)

Release Date: 2010-05-17

Overview: When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a brutal quest for revenge.

Rating: 6.901 (433 votes)

Release Date: 1989-03-24

Overview: Mob assassin Jeffrey is no ordinary hired gun; the best in his business, he views his chosen profession as a calling rather than simply a job. So, when beautiful nightclub chanteuse Jennie is blinded in the crossfire of his most recent hit, Jeffrey chooses to retire after one last job to pay for his unintended victim's sight-restoring operation. But when Jeffrey is double-crossed, he reluctantly joins forces with a rogue policeman to make things right.

Rating: 7.6 (823 votes)

Release Date: 1990-05-16

Overview: Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hunt elephants and other game, to the dismay of his cast and crew. He eventually becomes obsessed with hunting down and killing one specific elephant.

Rating: 6.371 (286 votes)

Release Date: 1989-08-25

Overview: An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a novel by John Varley.

Rating: 5.343 (135 votes)

Release Date: 1990-08-17

Overview: Three childhood friends from the slums of Hong Kong flee to war-time Saigon after accidentally murdering a gang leader, but their troubles only escalate.

Rating: 7.575 (285 votes)