When Takashi (Mirai Moriyama) receives a call from the police, he is forced to reconnect with his estranged father, Yohji (Tatsuya Fuji), an esteemed academic slipping into dementia. As Takashi attempts to piece together the mystery of Yohji’s missing wife and the fractured life his father now in...

Based on the shocking true story of a geisha and sex worker who accidentally killed her lover in a lustful haze of unbridled passion and kinky sex, A WOMAN CALLED SADA ABE is a watershed of hallucinatory erotic cinema. Director Noboru Tanaka, who rose to prominence as one of Nikkatsu’s leading Ro...

The second film in Noboru Tanaka’s “Showa Era Trilogy,” WATCHER IN THE ATTIC is an adaption of a short story by seminal Japanese novelist Edogawa Rampo. Starring Junko Miyashita (the second “Queen” of Nikkatsu’s Roman porno series) as Lady Minako, owner of a shabby boarding house in 1920s Tokyo, ...

When the monk Rosuke mysteriously disappears, his lover Nonoka joins the assassin Shinno in a search that leads to a mysterious religious sanctuary. But Rosuke finds himself aboard a spaceship bound for the distant planet Kelman, where an extraordinary battle of sorcery, faith, and destiny awaits...

After escaping from prison, nine convicts set out to recover a hidden cache of counterfeit money before going their separate ways. But as each man returns to the people and places he left behind, their desperate bid for freedom becomes an unexpected journey of redemption, regret, and second chanc...

A young man decides one day to start killing yakuza. After he kills his first two he gets roped into helping a wannabe gangster and his bumbling underlings to perform a hit. While things work out in the beginning, this young psychopath quickly becomes more trouble than the gang expected. Will the...

In this wryly provocative film, Juzo, an adult film director, searches for a new leading actress when his previous star gets pregnant. After secretly recording the moans of a female patient at a dentist’s office, Juzo becomes fixated on finding her. What ensues is a wild goose chase that quickly ...

A lone bench along a Tokyo riverside park serves as the crossroads for five interconnected stories. From childhood friends confronting long-buried feelings to couples, siblings, and strangers navigating moments of change, each encounter reveals how fleeting conversations can leave a lasting mark ...

One winter on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, a young boy named Takuya has resigned himself to the fact that he’s the worst player on his ice hockey team. While practicing, he becomes transfixed by the figure skaters who share the ice rink, particularly the rising star Sakura. Her coach, Arakawa...

Noboru Tanaka’s wildly bawdy and visually inventive foray into the Roman Porno genre follows a trio of sex workers at a secretive Soapland brothel in downtown Tokyo. Masako, the most requested attendant and unofficial matriarch of the bathhouse, finds herself in a steamy predicament when her occa...

A seemingly aimless drifter on the run returns to his hometown incognito. Although some locals recognize him, he vehemently denies his identity and murky past while starting an affair with the woman who owns the porno theater where he works. He then falls in with some bohemians and lets his hair ...

Among the neon-soaked streets of Taipei, four strangers chase desire in hopes of filling the emptiness in their lives: a trans woman seeking acceptance, a wealthy heiress trapped in an arranged engagement, a heartbroken dominatrix, and a failed romance novelist struggling to save his family (port...

College student Shuhei (Masahiro Motoki) finds out he is lacking a few credits for graduation. His crafty professor, a sumo enthusiast, says he’ll let it slip if Shuhei joins the school team and competes in the regional university tournament. Shuhei begrudgingly joins the team, which includes one...

After being sent to the Indonesian island of Sumba to deliver aid to communities devastated by Cyclone Seroja, young nun Yohanna (Laura Basuki) borrows a van to transport supplies, only to have it stolen. Determined to recover the vehicle, she joins forces with Alice (Kirana Grasela), a streetwis...

Saigon, 1990s. San, a transgender sex worker, longs for the gender-affirming surgery that will allow her to live as her true self. Determined to help her realize that dream, her lover Nam risks everything by entering the underground world of dog-cage fighting. But as their hopes become entangled ...

After decades of military rule, Burma holds its first presidential election. Many Burmese living abroad believe that peace and prosperity will soon follow, including Wang Xing-Hong, who is living as an immigrant laborer in Taiwan and saves his money so he can return home. When Xing-Hong arrives, ...

In 1994 post-martial law Taiwan, college student Chi-wei (Ling-Wei Lee) begins to question the culture of conformity surrounding her. Drawn into a student movement resisting the repression of creative freedom, she becomes entangled with Ching (Hsiao-Fei Yeh) and her boyfriend Kuang (Roy Chang), t...

In January 2020, director Xiaorui (Mao Xiaorui) reunites his cast and crew to complete a film that was abandoned during production ten years earlier. However, the team is suddenly placed into lockdown together during the onset of COVID-19. Confronted with the challenges of the pandemic, Xiaorui a...

After enduring months of a fruitless police investigation into the disappearance of their daughter, a young, estranged couple, Junyang and Peiying, realize they are being filmed surreptitiously when they begin receiving mysterious packages at their door containing DVDs with footage of their daily...

TOTAL TRUST is an eye-opening and deeply disturbing documentary about surveillance technology, abuse of power and censorship. Through the haunting stories of people in China who have been monitored, intimidated and even tortured, the film sparks a global debate about the dangers that Big Data and...

After a long and unsuccessful struggle to get pregnant, Satoko and her husband decide to adopt a child. Over the next six years, the middle-class couple and their young son Asato settle into a comfortable, albeit routine, life. The family’s orderly existence is shattered by the arrival of Hikari,...

In the Mongolian desert, young nomadic couple Davaa and Zaya live with their four children, bound to the rhythms of the land. When a sudden, devastating sandstorm wipes out half their herd, they are forced to abandon their home and move to the outskirts of the city. But as they struggle to adapt ...

Shanghai, 1932. Occupied and on the brink of war. When elite fighter Zhang Mubai (Wang Ming) is recruited for a top-secret assassination, he’s thrown into brutal battle against the Japanese military machine. Hunted through city streets, train lines, and enemy strongholds, Mubai fights his way thr...