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During W W II, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British P O W and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid blood shed

A married French woman takes a zoo chimp named Max to be her lover

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship

Four high school students preparing for their university entrance exam fantasize about a classmate, and meet up with their inebriated teacher, while singing bawdy drinking songs

A carefree afternoon at the beach turns into a comic misadventure when three young Japanese men are mistaken for illegal Korean residents

Story of a bookstore thief named Birdey who is led through various adventures in Tokyos Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko

A metaphysical mystery involving a university students camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide Looking back upon the event, the situation comes to be questioned if it happened at all

Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man theyre deeply linked to is a murdering rapist

A young boy reluctantly aids his swindling father in a threatening scam

A married woman and her lover murder her husband and dump his body into a well After a while, his ghost comes to haunt them while the local gossip grows stronger

Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists movement in Japan

After Atsushi commits murder, he is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase full of embezzled money What follows is a descent into lustful, reckless actions and regret

The new member of a samurai militia unit causes disruption as several of his colleagues fall in love with him, threatening to disturb the rigid code of their squad

In Osakas slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their catch

The French computer programmer Laura inherits the task of making a computer game of the Battle of Okinawa during World War II She searches the internet for information on the battle, and interviews Japanese experts and witnesses

Over the course of a night, a sex obsessed young woman, a suicidal man, and a gun crazy wannabe gangster are taken prisoner of a gang awaiting a shootout between a rival gang at dawn

Story is about a Tokyo girl looking round Okinawa island for her long lost brother and finding he is the tourist guide with whom she has had an affair