Masaki Kobayashi’s mammoth humanist drama is one of the most staggering achievements of Japanese cinema. Originally filmed and released in three parts, the nine-and-a-half-hour The Human Condition (Ningen no joken), adapted from Junpei Gomikawa’s six-volume novel, tells of the journey of the well-intentioned yet naive Kaji (handsome Japanese superstar Tatsuya Nakadai) from labor camp supervisor to Imperial Army soldier to Soviet POW. Constantly trying to rise above a corrupt system, Kaji time and again finds his morals an impediment rather than an advantage. A raw indictment of its nation’s wartime mentality as well as a personal existential tragedy, Kobayashi’s riveting, gorgeously filmed epic is novelistic cinema at its best.

Beginning with its theatrical premiere in 1969, the 48-film Tora-san series (aka "Otoko Wa Tsurai Yo," lit. "It's tough being a man") stands as a legendary symbol of Japan. Featuring Kiyoshi Atsumi as the beloved loser in the title role, each film has garnered tremendous critical praise worldwide, hailed by critics for its clever scripts, endearing protagonist, and thoughtful look into post-war Japanese culture. Includes: Tora-San, Our Lovable Tramp; Tora-San's Cherished Mother; Tora-San, His Tender Love; and Tora-San's Grand Scheme.

Motoki Katsuhide’s “Drugstore Girl” is a light, cute, and often pathetic comedic story of a beautiful young pharmacology student who turns a group of middle-aged men into raving, lecherous gits whilst starting a new life in a new town. Obayashi Keiko (Tanaka Rena) finds her live-in boyfriend cheating on her and subsequently bolts her apartment in Shinjuku, boarding the JR and basically disembarking at a random station. She ends up in the town of Masao on the outskirts of Tokyo-to and there she begins a new life (except for the fact that she has her pharmacology classes back in the city). Whimsically letting things fall into place, she lands a job at “Hustle Drug”, a new Wal-Mart sort of super store which threatens to put the local mom & pop merchants out of business. A group of middle-aged men - consisting of three of the local merchants (druggist, baker and kombini owner), a monk and Keaton-esquire homeless man - initially plan to sabotage the grand opening of Hustle Drug, but one sight of the lovely Obayashi and the old boys quickly forget about their economic agenda. When their leader Nabeshima (Emoto Akira) discovers that Obayashi plays lacrosse, the old boys set out to learn this strange new sport, complete with fishing nets and protective gear made from cardboard boxes and bamboo.

Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei, drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for their band. They choose Korean exchange student Son, though her comprehension of Japanese is a bit rough! It's a race against time as the group struggles to learn three tunes for the festival's rock concert, including a classic '80s punk-pop song by the Japanese group The Blue Hearts called "Linda Linda"...

Directed by Hideo Gosha and starring Tatsuya Nakadai and the ace Tetsuro Tanba, Goyokin tells the story of a haunted samurai named Magobei, returning home to the site of a past massacre to seek revenge and calm for his soul. The clan he abandoned intends to instigate a heartless massacre akin to an earlier reign of terror that caused him to resign his position and leave the clan. Protecting the last survivor of the massacre, a woman named Oriha, Magobei absorbs a truly phenomenal amount of punishment as a way of atoning for the sins of his clan.

Based on the best-selling fantasy novel by Manabu Makime, Battle League HORUMO is a combat action comedy that will take you into a world with the breathtaking backdrop of Kyoto and bizarre legend of “Horumo.” As a college freshman, Akira Abe is invited to a welcome party hosted by the club "Azure Dragon" and joins to get closer to his dream girl. At first, the club appears to be an ordinary social club but the new members soon find out about the 1000 year-old tradition upheld by the four universities of Kyoto and the "Horumo" battle. Members must go through rigorous training to achieve the fluency of the Oni language and learn to manipulate an army of Oni spirits. Le the battles begin!

When his orchestra disbands, Daigo Kobayashi decides to start over and moves back to his small hometown. Desperate for work, he secretly takes a job as a "Nokanshi," a funeral professional who prepares the deceased for burial and entrance into the next life. But while working with the families departed, Daigo embarks on a spiritual journey of his own as he finally experiences the joy and wonder of living.

Meet the Harunos, a rather unconventional, but happy and loving family nonetheless. They live in a small town in the mountains just out of Tokyo where life is good and quiet - but that doesn't mean they don't have their own little problems. Eight-year old Sachiko is bothered at inopportune moments by her own giant-sized double, who hangs around sitting on buildings staring at her, while her older brother Hajime privately wrestles with raging hormones and a love-struck crush on a pretty new classmate. The grown-ups have their difficulties too: the mother struggles to come out of retirement as an animator, and the father is a professional hypnotist who occasionally plies his trade on his own family with often funny results. An uncle drops in for a visit, but he also has a hidden agenda as he comes to terms with a romance that ended years ago.

In modern-day Japan, the worlds of the humans and the yokai often collide, and usually not in the most pleasant of manners. Half-human and half-yokai, one-eyed Kitaro (Wentz Eiji) lives with his eyeball father and his bickering friends, Nezumi Otoko (Oizumi Yo) and Neko Musume (Tanaka Rena), in Gegege Forest where he dedicates his time to maintaining peace between humans and yokai. But when a magical ball of power ends up in the wrong hands, Kitaro must recover it or both worlds could fall into grave danger.

Sachiko Hidari gives a towering performance as the war widow who returns year after year to the Ministry of Welfare, trying to clear the name of her disgraced husband: a sergeant court-martialed and executed for desertion at the end of the war. Seeking out four survivor's from her husband's garrison, she pursues the truth and uncovers a Rashomon-like mystery conveyed with all the impact and rage one would expect from Kinji Fukasaku.