Shôko Nakahara

Fly Me to the Saitama: From Biwa Lake with Love (2023)

People of Saitama Prefecture, who have been persecuted by Tokyoites for a long time, stand up for their freedom. Thanks to Momomi Hakuhodo (Fumi Nikaido) and the Saitama Liberation Front, laissez-passer is abolished. The people of Saitama Prefecture can on ...

The Ransom (2023)

Five men, including one Korean, kidnap a 19-year-old college student named Yumi. She is the daughter of a tycoon who controls the Japanese underworld. ...

The Misogyny (2022)

An actress penning a play inspired by the story of a woman vanishing into thin air becomes disturbed by unexplained phenomena at her rental villa. ...

The House of the Serpent (2022)

An actress penning a play inspired by the story of a woman vanishing into thin air becomes disturbed by unexplained phenomena at her rental villa. ...

Rageaholic (2022)

Loro (2018)

Internationally released Director's Cut of "Loro 1" and "Loro 2", which were released separately as two movies in Italy. The film talks about the group of businessmen and politicians – the Loro (Them) from the title – who live and act near to media tyc ...

Synchronizer (2017)

TAKASHI Hasegawa is conducting unauthorized research on how to synchronize brainwaves of humans and animals. One day, he thinks he may be able to cure his mother with dementia in this way. ...

Dead Banging (2014)

Nosebleed, a formerly unpopular rock band instantly gains a cult following after the lead vocalist, Kana, recruits a zombie, Tetsuo, as their death metal vocalist, even though he is the same undead monster that killed her former band members. ...

Lipstick (2013)

After young pop idol Arina is raped by a police officer, her pain drives her to insanity. Her sister Keiko, full of anger, won't stop until she finds the man responsible for Arina's downfall and make sure he feels her revenge. Keiko will make sure justice ...

Nonmetal Night (2013)

A Japanese action drama directed by Kei Nakata. ...

The Carol of the Old Ones (2012)

The stage of this piece is a film school. In this setting, there is a heroine aspiring to be a director who has invited a major actress to perform in a film that will become her art project graduation piece. This actress is a lecturer and the heroine feels ...

Ring of Curse (2011)

In observing a solitary classmate, a student begins to suspect that the loner has the ability to write words that will kill those who read them. ...

Bailout! (2011)

A spin-off short of "Helldriver," dealing with survivors in the dangerous northern territories. ...

Tokyo Gore Police (2008)

In a futuristic Tokyo where police have been privatized and bitter self-mutilation is so casual that advertising is often specially geared to the 'cutter' demographic, Ruka is on a mission to avenge her father's assassination. Ruka is a cop from a squad wh ...

Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan Volume 3, Part 2 (2007)

A new season of the acclaimed series finishes with these twenty sensational shorts capturing the essence of psychological terror with chilling visuals. ...

Sea of Madness (2007)

A horror film directed by Hiroshi Takahashi. After winning an overwhelming number of seats in the National Diet, the Prime Minister of Japan, Shintarō Makabe, is about to undertake a constitutional revision to remove Japan's Article 9 (forbidding the buil ...

Diary of Beloved Wife: Naive (2006)

Yoko is an ordinary housewife living in an ordinary apartment block. She has no real complaints as she goes about her tedious days, although her husband, Shinichi, is rather predictable in bed. They have one son, Junichi, and Yoko feels at a loss regarding ...

Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Snake Girl (2005)

Yumiko has been invited by her cousin to spend summer vacation in a rural village. Once they arrive, she is mad to feel very unwelcome by the mysterious locals who keep referring to her as "Snake Girl. ...

DEATH II: Bleeding Hell (2004)

Ryoda, who opens a used car dealership in Yokohama, is actually the boss of a Colombian Mafia now he have a war against the Chinese Mafia ...

Sodom the Killer (2004)

Bad things happen when innocent blood is shed. In the early 1700s, Lord Sodom Ichibei is happily celebrating his wedding day when his wife-to-be suddenly dies. In his search for an explanation, he kills any and every suspect he comes across. When Lord Ichi ...

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Akecha Dame-hen (2003)

In this film, the charismatic figure of the horror world, Yô Takahashi, who laid the foundation of Japanese horror as the screenwriter for "Ring" and "Don't Look Up," finally makes his directorial debut in the horror genre. Joining him are Yudai Yamaguchi ...

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Dai Ni Ya (2003)

The 13 scary stories, including "Don't open the Buddhist altar," in which Tsugumi is told by her grandfather, "Don't open the Buddhist altar today. ...

Most Dangerous Deka Matsuri (2003)

Third installment of the Deka Matsuri omnibus series. ...

Kaettekita! Deka Matsuri (2003)

Second installment of omnibus series Deka Matsuri. ...

Prime Minister's Office Lady (2001)

A woman, disguised as an office lady, takes revenge for her dead lover. ...

Toriko: The Yakuza Wife’s Extreme Sex (2001)

Mika, the sultry hostess who rescues the bruised, penniless manga artist Keichi from a seedy, neon‑lit rip‑off club. After he's beaten for failing to pay an outrageous bill, Mika can't abandon him—she slips him into her private sanctuary. By the glow ...

Visitor Q (2001)

In a dysfunctional family where the mother is a heroin addict and prostitute, beaten by her son, and the father is an ex-TV reporter, sleeping with his daughter and filming his son being beaten up, 'Q', a complete stranger enters the bizarre family, changi ...

Psycho Doctor (2001)

Yoshioka Gynecologist is a women's clinic that has a good reputation in the neighborhood. The medical examination by Dr. Yoshioka was trusted by many patients. However, Yoshioka, who collapsed due to too much overwork, became a wheelchair, and now Goro Kur ...

The Breed (2000)

Children born with special power. They seek blood for eternal life. And tonight, the victims ...! ...

Wild Night (2000)

A city where solitude and clamor intersect... A woman wanders alone, seeking solace for her heart, spending her days in the embrace of men. A bizarre murder occurs in the city, and the detective pursuing the case grows increasingly anxious. The madness of ...

Gemini (1999)

When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife. ...

Confinement Escape: The Woman Who Bloomed in Hell (1999)

Atsushi, a former member of the Self-Defense Forces, meets Naoko after picking up a lost cell phone. The two fall in love and share a passionate relationship. One day, Naoko suddenly vanishes. When Atsushi coincidentally sees her again, she confesses that ...

Scorpion: Double Venom (1998)

Nami Matsushima, a former doctor, is put in prison for murdering one of the men who raped and killed her sister. Now, faced with violent and lecherous prison gangs, an aggressively amorous warden, and with a friend on death row, Nami must steel herself for ...

A Giant Monster Appears in Tokyo (1998)

A large, dinosaur-like monster has risen from Tokyo Bay and attacked the city. As the government collapses into chaos, the people of a rural town in Fukui Prefecture, from whose perspective we see the entire movie, watch as the events unfold on TV. Some de ...

Simpatici & antipatici (1998)

In the Tiber sports club, Alberto, a ruthless property developer, the cynical surgeon who makes thirty million dollars after a prostate operation, the actor exhausted by failure and the failed salesman who sells caviar by discounting prices and who tries t ...

Full Metal Yakuza (1997)

After being brutally murdered in a gangster-style execution, Kensuke Hagane finds himself brought back to life by a mad scientist and rebuilt as a robot-human hybrid with a serious thirst for vengeance and the tools to carry it out. ...

The Way to Fight 3 (1997)

The third film in 'The Way to Fight' series. ...

The Dogman (1997)

20XX SM, a super rare video starring Masaru Matsuda, a new cult hero who runs through an era without drug morals! ...

The Way to Fight 2 (1997)

Straight to video sequel to Takashi Miike's 'The Way to Fight'. ...

Black Suit Legend (1997)

In Roppongi, university student Koshiro is fascinated by the world of "black suits" when he meets Club Legend's number 1 hostess Miho and top staff member Hideto, and decides to join the world by getting a job at the high-class club himself. ...

BLUE SEASON Temptation Fruit (1997)

A history club member commits suicide by jumping off the school building. Hazuki is curious about the mysterious message, so she consults her father, a detective. She infiltrates the club and begins investigating her. The granddaughter of the powerful Hats ...

Horror News (1996)

Yuko, a high school girl, receives a newspaper called Horror News, in which mysterious events of the future are written. ...

Naughty Guide to Tokyo Nightlife (1996)

For those willing to descend deep enough into Tokyo's seedy underworld, many illicit and illegal pleasures are available, for a price. The NAUGHTY GUIDE TO TOKYO NIGHTLIFE follows a number of women who are part of this world and who offer to act out any ma ...

Immoral Venus 2: Damage (1996)

After saving a suicidal man, Yagi, Kanako takes him back to her home in Jukai and treats him tenderly as if he were her lover. Yagi, who is tired of living, is attracted to her, but gradually he cannot stand her love. One night, Yagi is drugged with sleepi ...

Confinement Escape: At the End of Abnormal Libido (1995)

Yumi is a woman who works as a prostitute in order to enter medical school. A yakuza rescues her from a customer who dies on his stomach, and they fall in love. The yakuza goes to jail, and five years later, when the yakuza is released, he tells her he is ...

Lady Moonflower (1994)

The leader of the Shineyuki clan, Monroe Shimahara (played by Kobayashi Kobayashi), combines talent and beauty, and is known as the hope of the Japanese floral industry. Such a creature is naturally the object of admiration and fantasy in the hearts of cou ...

Christmas Holidays (1983)

Christmas holidays on the snow of Cortina D'Ampezzo. Mario, a guy from Rome who has not much money, falls in love with the American Samantha, the girlfriend of hypochondriac Roberto. Billo, a singer and a playboy, meets Ivana: she's married with a rich man ...

My Wife is a Witch (1980)

A witch being condemned to burn to death by the Holy Inquisition makes a contract with the devil to be reborn in our times. ...

The House of the Serpent (2022)

An actress penning a play inspired by the story of a woman vanishing into thin air becomes disturbed by unexplained phenomena at her rental villa. ...