Koji Yakusho

An uncompromising revenge thriller of operatic scope, "The World of Kanako" is a non-stop visual and emotional assault to the senses as it follows troubled ex-detective Akikazu on the hunt for his missing teenage daughter, Kanako. What he discovers in his search is an unsettling and harrowing web of depravity––surrounding both Kanako and himself. As Akizaku stumbles along a shocking trail of drugs, sex and violence, he finds himself woefully unprepared...

High-powered attorney Shigemori (Masaharu Fukuyama) reluctantly agrees to defend murder-robbery suspect Misumi (Kōji Yakusho), knowing the man already confessed and had been convicted of murder thirty years ago. But as he digs deeper, Shigemori begins to doubt whether his client could be the murderer after all. From Palme d'Or winner Hirokazu Kore-eda, The Third Murder is a gripping and morally complex crime procedural that incisively explores the...

A businessman meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.

A research scientist encounters an exact double who takes over his career and uses violence to achieve his goals. Official Selection at the **International Film Festival Rotterdam**.

This is the story of a married silkworm smuggler, Herve Joncour, in 19th Century France who travels to Japan to collect his clandestine cargo. While there he spots a beautiful European woman, the concubine of a local baron, with whom he becomes obsessed. Without speaking the same language, they communicate through letters until war intervenes. Their unrequited love persists however, and Herve's wife Helene begins to suspect.

A penniless samurai during a time of peace asks to commit ritual suicide in the courtyard of the House of Ii, but is instead told the story of the fate of another warrior who came with a similar request, but was actually hoping to get money instead.