Akaji Maro Movies

Real pro wrestlers Mizuho Ishikawa, Cutie Suzuki and Emi Tojyo star alongside newcomer Miki Suzuki as the women tag teams, and they are managed...

Tells the story of an up-and-coming Yakuza, who makes a name for himself alongside his two friends just before 1992, when the enforcement of the new...

A docudrama about the boxer Jôichirô Tatsuyoshi. The documentary part follows Tatsuyohi for 18 months, from his comeback from an eye...

An exploration of underground Japanese counter-culture including the Yakuza, the nationalists, the gay and lesbian community, the bikers and the...

Correlated with Susan Sontag's theorization of kitsch as well as employing the queer lingo of "camp," this film's relentless equal opportunity...

Shirō raids the office of the organization that attacked his lover, wreaking havoc and escaping with a stolen handgun. In retaliation, the...

A telegram arrived at street vendor Haruo Iwashita's place, announcing his father was critically ill. He rushed back to his childhood home for the...

Kenta Kurihara (Tasuku Nagaoka) is sent to prison for battery. In his cell he is referred to as the "newcomer." Meanwhile, Kenta is bummed out with...

Noboru (Taku Manabe) finds himself in a very difficult situation. The factory he’s been working at has gone bankrupt. He heads to the...

In the 1970s, 80% of mahjong parlours in Kabukichō were "Buu Mahjong" establishments, where cash flowed freely in high stakes games. In this...

Mado wakes up in the morning finding all the people disappeared. Hearing a strong typhoon might strike, everyone has escaped the disaster. She checks...

Film directed by Ryuji Ohya.

Manzo is a fisherman in a small seaside community who lives and works alone, but longs for a relationship and maybe a wife. When a sign is posted...

The Naked Summer is a film that documents young artists' effort and growth while training and preparing for a performance of Butou that is praised...

A detective, a mysterious beauty Ekin and other characters appear in the film. It creates a mysterious visual world that takes us one step further...

‘Many people have a preconception about butoh — that it is performed by dancers whose bodies are painted white. So when we debuted our...