Akaji Maro Movies

Tokyo. Asuka, a young cleaning lady working the night shift, is ready to pay a high price to achieve her dream of becoming a music star. She manages...

A Japanese boxer stages a dramatic and dangerous comeback after suffering brain damage in the ring.

Wife in former life plagues husband as ghost in the present

The film depicts the youth of Kinzo, a heretic painter who worked in Tosa during the late Edo period, and the hurricane-like inner side of his life.

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring...

A movie director goes to the Paris Opera to shoot his new film. Lacking inspiration, he looks for ways out of his solitude and fear of failure. With...

An off-beat comedy about 3 'damejin' (useless persons), who don't work and spend their lives doing nothing. They actually don't want to work. When...

One day, while Seiya was calling everybody on the phone to tell them "It's me, thank you" on the rooftop of a building, a strange creature with...

While butoh master Akaji Maro is in rehearsal and fashion designer Shinichiro Arakawa prepares for the Paris collection, Sion begins a movie about a...

Yamada, a good-for-nothing local civil servant who just loves monster movies, is suddenly given a huge mission to liven up the city! What...

An odd journey starts as Mitsuru, a private detective, and a boy, whom a dying mobster entrusts to him, decide to go to northern Japan in search of...

A dark and strange comedy about a bank robber with bad luck. Bungling a bank robbery turns out to be a profitable mistake for Yamazaki, an amateur...

A journalist reporting on the 1997 Kobe earthquake recalls a boat trip he took as a boy after WWII to bury his brother's ashes, during which his...

Fleeing to Tokyo with the hopes that she can fulfil her dream of becoming a dancer, Yume is met with the harsh reality that success isn’t...

Set in Osaka's Shinsekai, the film depicts the lives of Ayumu Tobita (Hidekazu Akai), who makes a living as a shogi gambler (shinken-shi), and Ryuzo...

A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho. He quickly becomes aware that her life is in...

The thug is now back in Shaba as a legendary hitman!

Wakaba saves her classmate Koki who was being bullied. From then on, people who are involved with Wakaba are killed one after another. When the...

‘Many people have a preconception about butoh — that it is performed by dancers whose bodies are painted white. So when we debuted our...