Escape from Japan

Repeated Absences

François Naulet turns his bedroom into an island of drugs, loneliness and despair.

1972

City with Beasts

Fierce struggle between brothers and sisters in a lawless land where violence is the norm.

1958

Two Lives, Two Yakuza

An early ninkyo film from before the genre had truly established its form. Koji Tsuruta plays an honourable outlaw who saves an older man from an ambu

1964

Ben Is Back

19-year-old Ben Burns unexpectedly returns home to his family's suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben's mother, Holly, is relieved and welcoming

2018

Chikamatsu Monogatari

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find them

1954

Baby Face Nelson

Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll.

1957

Desperate

An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.

1947

Postman Blues

Sawaki is a postman who's not quite thrilled about his boring way of life. But his life is about to change when he delivers mail to his old schoolmate

1997

Blues Harp

Ambitious Yakuza Kenji befriends harmonica-playing bartender Chuji, who moonlights as a part-time drug-dealer for the opposing gang. Their friendship

1998

Rainy Dog

A Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss to make ends meet when suddenly a woman from his past delivers a son to

1997

Monday

A simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what h

2000

Shinjuku Triad Society

Tatsuhito, a cop, pursues Chinese warlord Wang through the underworld of Shinjuku and over to Taiwan.

1995

The Man in White

After his father figure - a yakuza boss, is murdered, Azusa Moribe goes on a killing spree to exact revenge.

2003

Sweet Sugar

A young woman nabbed in a drug bust chooses to work on a sugarcane plantation with other convicts instead of going to jail.

1972

Silver

The story in "Silver" is about a female wrestler who is really an undercover agent. Disguised as a wrestling warrior, heroine Jun Shirogane (Atsuko Sa

1999

A Fork in the Road

An escaped convict and a woman ponder what to do with a not-quite-dead body.

2010

Heartless

Jamie Morgan is a troubled young man with a facial birthmark, which has left him isolated and fearful, hiding from the world outside. He lives in the

2010

Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza

Yakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino

1969

Action Jackson

A man meets his lookalike, who's not just a killer of evil, but also a kind hearted man. Together, they team up to fight against a dreaded gangster.

2014

Passion Play

An angel under the thumb of a ruthless gangster is saved by a trumpet player down on his luck.

2011