Live Action - Japanese

9 Souls: A gang of misfits break free from jail leaving a trail of mayhem in a land that is crueler for being comic. Bullet Ballet: His girlfriend's suicide sparks an average man's willful descent into a whirlpool of violence. The Guard from Underground: The gigantic security guard at Akiko's new place of work has a permanent solution for keeping the offices secure... brutal murder!

On August 15th, 1945, the Japanese people faced utter destruction. Millions of soldiers and civilians were dead, the rest were starving, and their cities had been reduced to piles or rubble - two of them vaporized by atomic bombs. The government was deadlocked; some ministers called for surrender, and other argued that honor demanded a final battle on home soil. To break the impasse, the cabinet took the unprecedented step of asking the Emperor to decide the fate of the nation.

After a young theology student flees a hit-and-run accident, he is plagued by both his own guilt-ridden conscience and a mysterious, diabolical doppelganger. But all possible escape routes lead to Hell - literally.

"Robot, attack! Robot, destroy!" These commands launched a thousand sci-fi fantasies for budding fans of the genre, just as they brought Johnny Sokko's Giant Robot into imminent battle action! Under the voice control of young Johnny Sokko, the massive, flying metal behemoth would bring his fiery breath, laser eyes, finger-launched missiles and, above all, his physical strength into battle with countless menacing monsters bent on destroying the Earth!

All are familiar with the famous Silk Road, but few know of French scholar Paul Pelliot's discovery of a second route nearly 100 years ago. For the first time ever, foreign cameras retrace the route discovered by Pelliot by traversing an immense desert known as the "Ocean of Sand." During their two-week journey, the participating scholars attempt to solve the mystery surrounding the importance and historical impact of the NEW SILK ROAD.

Heikichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is a circus acrobat who is deceived by K-20 and is set up to take the fall for the phantom thief. Using his incredible physical dexterity, Heikichi wages war against K-20 in order to clear his name, fighting alongside K-20's next wealthy target, Duchess Yoko Hashiba (Takako Matsu), and her fiancee, brilliant detective Kogoro Akechi (Toru Nakamura). But what is the ultimate decision Heikichi has to make?

In his late color masterpiece Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior), director Akira Kurosawa returned to the samurai film and to a primary theme of his celebrated career-the play between illusion and reality.

When a warlord dies, a peasant thief is called upon to impersonate him, and then finds himself haunted by his spirit as well as his own ambitions.

The unwitting victim of a terrible curse, a young man accidentally injures his wife, a jealous teacher who soon dies from her wound. Running away with one of her students, he fails to heed the dead woman's warning that if he remarries, she'll haunt him to the grave. Now for an unfaithful husband, the real terror is about to begin.

Cruelly shunned by his people as a child, Kamui trusts no one. Now a solitary warrior, he wanders Japan, using lethal skill and instinct to evade countless violent attacks from the ninja clan he left behind. A turn of luck introduces a band of fugitive ninjas who offer Kamui a new life amongst them as a pirate, killing sharks for suffering fishing villages. While the tempting promise of respect and protection leaves him conflicted, the merciless members of his former clan are closing in, and his deadliest foe is poised to strike.

Cruelly shunned by his people as a child, Kamui trusts no one. Now a solitary warrior, he wanders Japan, using lethal skill and instinct to evade countless violent attacks from the ninja clan he left behind. A turn of luck introduces a band of fugitive ninjas who offer Kamui a new life amongst them as a pirate, killing sharks for suffering fishing villages. While the tempting promise of respect and protection leaves him conflicted, the merciless members of his former clan are closing in, and his deadliest foe is poised to strike.