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The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.

A samurai who gets hit by lightning wakes up to find himself on a film set in the present day and starts to work as an extra on samurai films.

After failing to reach a deal with her enemies, a mercenary karateka protects the daughter of a recently-deceased oil tycoon from the evil conglomerate gunning for her inheritance.

A young American family moves to a House in Kyoto, Japan. It turns out to be haunted by the ghosts of a woman and her lover, who were killed by the woman's husband, as well as the ghost of the husband, who killed himself afterward.

Mercenary karate master Tsurugi gets mixed up in a plot by the American mafia to take over the karate dojos in Asia, aided by a corrupt dojo master.

Mercenary karate master Tsurugi is hired to retrieve a cassette tape which holds a very sensitive recording of governmental corruption. A back and forth game of who got the tape ensues.

German soldiers are transported to a prisoner-of-war camp in Japan after the First World War.

Ken, son of a former samurai settles with his family in the west from Japan. Soon his family is killed in front of him by stagecoach robbers, making him aim to get revenge. Marvin an experienced gunman befriends Ken and becomes his mentor.

The central Kansai region of Japan is the setting for the historic cities of Sakai and Kyoto. Noda and Koike from We Make Antiques are back and together for the tea ceremony by Furuta Shigenari who is the master of the ceremony. Enter a mysterious new woman named Shino about whom the two have a feeling.

Naho is the deputy curator of the art gallery established by her grandfather, an avid art collector. Naho's husband is the managing director at a different art gallery in Ginza which his family has run for several generations. To avoid the hectic pace of Tokyo, a pregnant Naho decides to move to Kyoto. There, she finds a painting by an unknown painter. She becomes fascinated with it and soon faces an unexpected truth.

When a young man is sent to a prison workhouse for a crime he did not commit his friend on the outside must find evidence to clear his name.

The local yakuza gangs dominating the port of Yokohama do not take well the invasion of their territory by a daring biker gang, led by a girl in black leather outfit and cowboy hat - reminiscent of the earlier war victors. Old and new grudges lead the two girl gangs to clash in several fights. However, when one of the leaders dies, the girls end up by uniting against the male gangsters that had been using them as puppets - and it all ends in a great finale mixed battle by the seashore.

The documentary on the recent history of Japanese cinema, featuring interviews with filmmakers, historians and film industry representatives. It is directed by Hubert Niogret and co-produced by Les Films du Tamarin and Filmoblic, two companies specializing in the production of documentaries and short films since the 1970s. "New Territories" presents the renewal of images and the new territories of today: careers of Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, Takashi Miike, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, etc. from the late 90s to the present day. In addition to filmed interviews, the images - film extracts, film stills, set photos, portraits of directors and artists, film posters, Japanese music, sound interviews, making-of - make up the material for these documentaries, which retrace a part of the history of Japanese cinema, putting it into perspective with world and local history, the economy, politics, within a specific cultural and aesthetic framework, at times open or closed to the West.

A young samurai must choose between the life of the sword or quiet, family life.

Randen is a pleasantly low-key romantic drama that evokes the ancient city's folklore, movie production history and deep love of trains through three intersecting stories

A young woman tries to hide her outlawed religion which is punishable by death.

Set in feudal Japan, Heart of Sword is an action/romantic comedy that tells the story of two star crossed lovers who run away from their oppressive society together.