Keisaku Kimura

Director Daisuke Goto, the master of the cinematic Pink Eiga, is back with this retelling of the classic film noir, The Postman Always Rings Twice. A married woman, tasked with running her handicapped husband’s failing printing business, meets a drifter and they fall in love. Soon a plan to murder the husband is put into motion and the forces of fate begin to show their hand. Featuring bravura filmmaking, fantastic performances and steamy sex, the Mourning Wife is a worthy follow up for any fan of Daisuke Goto’s masterpiece A Lonely Cow Weeps at Dawn.

A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.

A mysterious female spy is recruited to infiltrate the Japanese underworld and gather evidence for a clandestine secretive branch of the Tokyo Police Department.

After an editor of an occult magazine suddenly vanishes, his friend Chihiro and his co-worker Yusei set out to discover the reason behind his disappearance.

Hiroshi, a man wandering in rural Japan aimlessly, encounters 6 years-old Keita, who triggers a conflict between conscience and a dark violent nature.

An erotic romance depicting the forbidden love between a female teacher and a male student, and the sinister trap set by the superior who is after the female teacher. The director is Hisaaki Nagaoka, director of "New Teacher: Affair in the Art Room." The lead role is played by Saki Matsui, the 1999 Super Taikyu Race Queen.

In 1943, as Japan's WWII effort falters, a vice-admiral proposes training squadrons of "volunteer" flyers to crash their armed planes into Allied warships. Yarn follows the lives of kamikaze pilots, as remembered by an aging Kyushu restaurateur who cherishes their memory. Honoring the dead and multiple military anthems may stir the soul of some Japanese, but elsewhere auds will make a one-way trip for exits. Battle scenes are well-executed and script delivers some memorable scenes, but overall competent helming and thesping are powerless over writer-cum-Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishiara's repetitive storytelling. A post-war postscript adds considerable length to an already over-extended narrative. Tech credits are good quality.

A Japanese giallo about a murderous driver roaming the street in search of prey.