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overview : For our fifteenth year of RiffTrax Live, we've selected the 1990's cult classic about bank robbing, presidential masks, and surfing: …

overview : Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji …

overview : A young director intent on making "the greatest color crime movie ever" can't seem to finish his script--he has a …

overview : Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei, drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi are forced to recruit a …

overview : The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture …

overview : A record company office worker named Kanna discovers a punk rock band called Shonen Meriken Sakku 'Brass Knuckle Boys' through …

overview : Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved …

overview : Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They become fascinated with a …

overview : Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get …

overview : A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own mark in the …

overview : Shinohara, a young bodybuilder, joins a para-military sect in northern Japan. His instructor, Takizawa, takes a liking to the new …

overview : Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita …

overview : Haunted by an accident he caused in high school, a damaged filmmaker is forced to go back to the scene …

overview : Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. …

overview : In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years …

overview : A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic …

overview : In a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an alley cat, bring …

overview : Set in 1973 Spain, a struggling encyclopedia salesman and his wife take advantage of an offer to make adult films. …