Akaji Maro Movies

Wife in former life plagues husband as ghost in the present

Remake of Chusei Sone's 1983 comedy about a yakuza family trying their luck in show business.

Hatano is living as an insomniac freelance typesetter alone in his bayside apartment. One day, Aikawa, a high school classmate he hasn’t seen...

Real pro wrestlers Mizuho Ishikawa, Cutie Suzuki and Emi Tojyo star alongside newcomer Miki Suzuki as the women tag teams, and they are managed...

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...

After the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy marriage seem to suddenly vanish as she finds out that...

Mado wakes up in the morning finding all the people disappeared. Hearing a strong typhoon might strike, everyone has escaped the disaster. She checks...

A man is assaulted by someone with a bat and attempts to figure out why.

A docudrama about the boxer Jôichirô Tatsuyoshi. The documentary part follows Tatsuyohi for 18 months, from his comeback from an eye...

An exploration of underground Japanese counter-culture including the Yakuza, the nationalists, the gay and lesbian community, the bikers and the...

A detective, a mysterious beauty Ekin and other characters appear in the film. It creates a mysterious visual world that takes us one step further...

Tells the story of an up-and-coming Yakuza, who makes a name for himself alongside his two friends just before 1992, when the enforcement of the new...

Noboru (Taku Manabe) finds himself in a very difficult situation. The factory he’s been working at has gone bankrupt. He heads to the...

Correlated with Susan Sontag's theorization of kitsch as well as employing the queer lingo of "camp," this film's relentless equal opportunity...

Film directed by Ryuji Ohya.

The Naked Summer is a film that documents young artists' effort and growth while training and preparing for a performance of Butou that is praised...

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