Renji Ishibashi

After being forced to stand back and stay out of the spotlight, a band of ninjas remerges after a group of violent ninjas threatens their town.

Mondonosuke embarks on a journey to Satsuma after the death of Naito Yamashiro no Kami, facing attacks and meeting the mysterious Oren along the way.

During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head of the opposing lord to declare victory.

Beginning with an explosive, six-minute montage of sex, drugs and violence, and ending with a phallus-headed battle robot taking flight, Takashi Miike's unforgettable Dead or Alive Trilogy features many of the director's most outrageous moments set alongside some of his most dramatically moving scenes. Made between 1999 and 2002, the Dead or Alive films cemented Miike's reputation overseas as one of the most provocative enfants terrible of Japanese cinema, yet also one of its most talented and innovative filmmakers.In Dead or Alive, tough gangster Ryuichi (Riki Takeuchi) and his ethnically Chinese gang make a play to take over the drug trade in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by massacring the competition. But he meets his match in detective Jojima (Show Aikawa), who will do everything to stop them.

Bangaku Ajigawa, a master swordsman and ronin with a treasured sword, faces a comically honest life filled with deception and challenges.

A man begins a relationship with a very deadly female killer.

Shunned by his village, a young man goes on a violent killing spree after tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II. Based on true events.

A strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japanese "salaryman", out for a drive with his girlfriend.

A psychologist looking to find out how her brother disappeared goes to a cursed town called Howling Village and finds out dark and shocking truths.

In the mid-19th century, Okiku lives in a tenement row house in the sprawling city of Edo. There, she cares for her father, Genbei, a former samurai, whom she supports by teaching children in a temple school. Yasuke and his newly recruited partner, Chuji, regularly visit the tenement to collect the human manure from the outhouse the tenants share. Okiku takes a special interest in Chuji.

Follows the adventures of a horse-riding, sword-wielding samurai as he fights robbers, corrupt bureaucrats, and other villains in Edo era Japan.

In the final Lone Wolf and Cub film, star Tomisaburo Wakayama decided to make the sort of wild movie he’d always wanted to: one in which Lone Wolf battles zombies and Daigoro’s baby cart zips improbably across an icy landscape on skis.

It's David Lynch meets Japanese yakuza with plenty of surreal perversions along the way--like only Takashi Miike can deliver. Forget everything you thought you knew about crime cinema.

American slacker Abby (Brittany Murphy- Just Married, Sin City) abandoned by her boyfriend in Tokyo finds her calling in an unlikely place: a local ramen house run by a tyrannical chef who doesn't speak a word of English.

A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organisation. However his fear of nothing soon causes problems.