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overview : A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World War II. During their …

overview : Kamagasaki is an "invisible" slum of Osaka that attracts day laborers and prostitutes since WW2. When the local gang has …

overview : Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among …

overview : The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.

overview : Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he …

overview : Ono Yasuomi is a cram school teacher with poor communication skills. He hopes to get married but doesn't know what …

overview : In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows …

overview : A month after Genji Takiya graduates, a new battle for supremacy at Suzuran All-Boys High School begins. Transfer student Kaburagi …

overview : Beautiful Noriko Miki works at a cosmetic company. One day, Noriko is murdered. People begin to suspect her co-worker Miki …

overview : A Tokyo college student is attacked by a ghoul, a super-powered human who feeds on human flesh. He survives, but …

overview : Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl …

overview : The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist …

overview : Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by …

overview : On July 27th, university student Aoi Hinata has an accident. When she wakes up, Aoi Hinata finds herself in a …

overview : In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under …

overview : A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their …

overview : Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When …

overview : Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has …