Movies: Houka Kinoshita

Coming of age story about a boy and his mother....

Hana, 21-year old, is sent to a mental hospital for attempting a suicide. She suffers from hearing a deep male voice in her head almost everyday that goes, "Twenty yards of linen are worth one coat..." She gradually regains her peace of mind by trave...

In the world of the Ninja, fighting skills play a small role in one's rank in the Shinobi order. Kageru is the best in his class, but his birth predestines him to the lower class. His friend Aoi is dealt the same fate; together they'll have to questi...

A celebration of the ancient art of Japanese rakugo, roughly translated as “comic storytelling”. The film is interspersed with numerous funerals and wakes, songs, dances, and often disgustingly crude jokes....

#37 in the series, following "Yakuza Finance."...

In her brother's apartment where he died, Yuki finds a vacuum cleaner with its cord still hooked up to the outlet. She discovers that the circumstances surrounding her brother's supposed suicide are sketchy at best, yet no one has any answers. When s...

A soba restaurant owner dies mysteriously on D. Street. The police rule it as a suicide, but detective Akechi Kogoro and his wife Fumiyo think otherwise and launch their own investigation. As they delve deeper, they discover relationships twisted by ...

A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged father shows up at his house requesting shelter. One of the best of Somai's seriocomic studies of the ...

A made-for-TV anthology horror film composed of four stories, two of which serving as prequels to the Ju-on series....

Sequel to 'Solitary Scream'....

The second 'Civil Violence' film....

Yamashita Takako works in the food section of a department store. She pays frequent visits to a reputable local Chinese restaurant about opening an in-store branch. The owner of the restaurant, Wang Qingkuo from Shanghai, who does all the cooking by ...

It is one of the projects "erotic random walk" which two new directors adapt to the present day and compete to compete with two popular short stories of RIHO Edogawa. The "pedestrian" is replaced with a woman, and in the theater of a certain boarding...

Trying to pass a strange bill to clear up the suspicion put on himself...

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Only one person challenges the final battle against the corrupt state power....

Yuta Kimura is the leader of an unsuccessful theater troupe. Yuta, who dreams of becoming a film director, runs a small bar in Osaka while running an unsuccessful theater troupe....

A mysterious thriller developed by secret love-hate play around women captured in ruins....

Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father. His life begins to unravel when a journalist following him takes an interest in the wife of a boyhood...

Sexy Momoko turns tricks in her taxi to boost business, until she's finally discovered by her employer. Running from the authorities, Momoko abandons her cab to begin life as a fugitive, accompanied by her most recent customer....