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- DirectorOkihiro YonedaStarsMegumi KobayashiSayaka YamaguchiAki HanoA new Mothra takes to the air and must battle Death Ghidora to save humanity.
- DirectorKunio MiyoshiStarsMegumi KobayashiSayaka YamaguchiAki HanoMothra's twin nymphs and children from the city find a lost city, as well as a giant monster that is attracted to environmental calamities.
- DirectorOkihiro YonedaStarsMegumi KobayashiMisato TateAki HanoTo save the world, Mothra goes back in time in an attempt to defeat a younger King Ghidorah.
- DirectorKiyotaka TaguchiStarsHideo IshiguroMiyabi MatsuuraNaoto TakahashiGai returned to the SSP after he was informed by Ultraman Zero that there was a new threat approaching. Whilst going back, Gai met Ultraman X who was briefly separated from his host Daichi after an enemy attack.
- DirectorTakashi MinamotoStarsHiroki NarimiyaYû YamadaShûgo OshinariSet in Tokyo's otaku mecca Akihabara, "Akihabara@DEEP" tells the story of five otaku who drop out of society and end up founding their own successful IT venture called Crook. But Nakagomi, president of an influential electronics company called Digital Capital, will do anything to get his hands on Crook.
- DirectorNoboru IguchiStarsRina TakedaKentarô ShimazuTakamasa SugaKeiko, the daughter of a legendary sushi chef, runs away from home when his Karate-style regimen becomes too severe. Finding work at a rural hot springs inn, she is ridiculed by the eccentric staff and guests.
- DirectorShugo FujiiStarsTatsuji SugiyamaTomoya MochizukiDaiki TanakaOne morning. Fuma wakes up on the bed with his only son Ren dazzling as usual. However it is something different from the others. The place they wakes is in the deep forest. Suddenly a monster attacks them who is Japanese traditional monster known as Namahage. At the same time, a car drives into the forest not far from them. A wadding planner is taking two lovers and bride's father to the wedding ceremony hall for the rehearsal. However loses their ways. In the meantime, the car breaks down. When two stories comes together, the story goes in a direction where it can not be predict.
- DirectorMasafumi YamadaStarsNanami YamadaHaruka MomokawaBabaToshie is a nurse at a hospital in a rural area. She meets Yukiko, who has gone to the hospital to see a doctor. Yukiko has just gotten married and has been breaking out in hives every time she has physical contact with her husband.
- DirectorHiroto YokokawaStarsYukijirô HotaruShirô SanoNorman EnglandA dramatization about the failed production of Daiei's Giant Horde Beast Nezura.
- DirectorMari AsatoStarsAiri SuzukiMiyabi NatsuyakiMomoko TsugunagaYuka had the most horrifying experience of her life a year ago. Her high school classmate, Kurohane, is blessed with unparalleled literary talent, but she is bullied because of her eerie appearance. When Kurohane starts writing the script for a school play, inexplicable deaths start to occur, sparking a wave of panic among the terrified students. It turns out that Kurohane's script contains a curse to kill the readers indiscriminately. Can Yuka and her classmates escape Kurohane's avenging curse?
- DirectorShinichi FukazawaStarsShinichi FukazawaMasaaki KaiMasahiro KaiTrapped inside a haunted house, a body builder must save himself from a gruesome ghost hell-bent on revenge.
- DirectorSade SatôStarsMiyako AkaneAn KoshiShôgo MaruyamaA sadistic place in a remote location put out a help wanted ad luring young teen girls to come work as a live in maid only to control them for Sexual abuse, Torture, Murder and Cannibalism.
- DirectorToshiya FujitaStarsMeiko KajiToshio KurosawaMasaaki DaimonA strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.
- DirectorHiroto YokokawaStarsYuki MoritaToshi TodaAkira TakaradaThe Shurakuen Buddha statue, located in Aichi, suddenly springs to his feet and wanders around Nagoya city.
- StarsRen ÔsugiNaoki HosakaTomoko NakajimaAfter his wife is murdered, a homicide detective develops multiple personalities and takes revenge on her killer. Years later the killer seems to reappear from the dead.
- DirectorToshiya FujitaStarsMeiko KajiJûzô ItamiKazuko YoshiyukiTo avoid a death sentence for her prior acts of bloodshed, the vengeful swordswoman Lady Snowblood is conscripted by the Japanese Secret Police to assassinate political dissidents.
- DirectorKenji MurakamiStarsAkariMai HagiwaraTomu MiyazakiAiko along with his zombie nerd co-worker Hashimoto and Uncle must fight a group of zombies led by Yasude at their office.They have no Guns,no Chanisaws,no Baseball Bats just a mysterious VHS Tape.
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsYumi AdachiHideko HaraFûju KamioOne day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Jukai Village'. The village is hidden in Jukai Forest, a suicide spot that once you enter it, you can never come out.
- DirectorAtaru OikawaStarsMiho KannoMami NakamuraYoriko DôguchiA traumatized young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from.
- DirectorToshirô InomataStarsRuna NagaiAkira HiraiChie TanakaThe mysterious Tomie, the girl who cannot die, makes her way through three separate eposodic stories of terror.
- DirectorKazuo 'Gaira' KomizuStarsKatsuhiro FukudaToshiya ItoShinobu KandoriWhen a meteor crashes into Tokyo Bay, a toxic cloud covers the city and a new, alien virus causes the dead to walk and feast on the living. To make matters worse, punk gangs terrorize the city and the Japanese military suspiciously will not control the situation. It's up to Keiko (Cutei Suzuki), a one-woman army, to bring some order and save her home from the ghouls and gangs.
- DirectorSabuStarsTomorô TaguchiDiamond YukaiShin'ichi TsutsumiA salaryman, a drug addict and a yakuza go on a breathless three man chase through the streets of Tokyo, each for a different reason and fighting demons.
- DirectorKensuke SonomuraStarsMasanori MimotoMiuTasuku NagaseHydra - a small bar in the middle of Tokyo. There's Takashi, standoffish guy working where he hides his another identity of a highly skilled hit man now has to face a brutal killing game that he has been pointed as a target.
- DirectorShinji HiguchiIkki TodorokiStarsTakumi SaitôMasami NagasawaHidetoshi NishijimaAs the threat of giant unidentified lifeforms known as "S-Class Species" worsens in Japan, a silver giant appears from beyond Earth's atmosphere.
- DirectorShozin FukuiStarsNaoNorimizu AmeyaYôta KawaseScientists use a brain-altering drug to conduct experiments, after one such project goes astray, they need to find another test subject in this Japanese splatter-punk film.
- DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsNobuko MiyamotoShingo YamashiroNokkoA TV production crew are making a documentary about the infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro. When they start filming at his old home, they come under attack from the ghost of the painter's wife.
- DirectorTôichirô RutôStarsKanna HashimotoYôsuke SuginoFumika BabaA young girl leads a double life as an assassin for hire.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKai AtôTomoharu HasegawaPâko HayashiyaA detective and a businessman search for a serial killer who removes people's organs.
- DirectorToshiyuki MizutaniStarsYoshino KimuraYû KurosawaKen IshiguroWhen a woman, able to read the thoughts of others, comes to help survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, she encounters a girl with Multiple Personality Disorder whose dangerous 13th personality, Isola, must be stopped.
- StarsMasaya OnosakaToshihiko SekiMiho YamadaCount D, a quite interesting pet shop owner from an area called Chinatown, sells rare and hard to come by pets to people longing for something special, but with each sale comes a contract. If the rules of the contract are followed, everything goes fine, but if someone should break the rules of the contract, the pet shop cannot be held responsible for anything unfortunate that might happen. Leon Orcot, a homicide detective, has linked many odd and unexplainable deaths together; they all were customers of Count D's pet shop, and he intends to find out why.
- DirectorKeita AmemiyaStarsYûji KishimotoMai HoshoJiro OkamotoThe popular villain/antihero from the classic "Kikaider" TV series stars in his own movie, as a dark defender in a post-apocalyptic future.
- DirectorRyûhei KitamuraStarsHideo SakakiRyôKoyukiAfter surviving his own execution, Tenshu chooses to be subjected to the bizarre experiments of the prison officials.
- DirectorSadao NakajimaStarsChristina LindbergIchirô ArakiGô AwazuOn a trip to Japan a woman accidentally enters the wrong car. The driver is a sexually frustrated loner.
- DirectorTomoo HaraguchiStarsDaniel AguilarMatt AltHideaki AnnoScientists create amphibious supersoldiers and detonate a nuclear bomb. In the midst of the fallout, a monster arrives, leaving Japan defenseless. Mankind's only hope is an irradiated water goblin with death on its mind.
- DirectorRyûhei KitamuraStarsAya UetoKenji KohashiHiroki NarimiyaRaised to deal in cold blooded death, the teenage assassin girl Azumi must defeat three evil warlords while also battling her own heart.
- DirectorKen NikaiStarsChiaki KuriyamaHiroki NarimiyaTomoka KurokawaDo you believe in love after death? On the eve of her 19th birthday, Mizuki (Kuriyama) doesn't have a lot to celebrate about. Her mother recently committed suicide, her stepfamily bothers her, her boyfriend has been cheating on her and her best friend has betrayed her. Hurt and disillusioned, Mizuki runs from everything and is drawn by some unknown force to a dilapidated estate. Deep within the house Mizuki discovers the mysterious Adam (Hyde), playing a hauntingly familiar melody on the guitar. Melancholy and full of secrets, it seems that Adam, and the house, have a strange, irresistible link to Mizuki. Can Mizuki's boyfriend and a couple of well-meaning schoolchildren uncover the secret of what happened 19 years ago and free Mizuki before the last quarter of the moon falls?
- StarsHiroaki HirataTakayuki InoueKazuya NakaiIt was another peaceful day on board the Going Merry. Nami yelled at Luffy for whizzing in the ocean. As it'll just contaminate the fish that are swimming. Luffy was on fishing duty, but he was using sponges for bait, which he sees them to look like hamburgers. Nami couldn't believe how naive Luffy is, until he caught something big, that it dragged the ship backwards instead of forwards. The fishing line ended up at a rocky crater with a chest being chained to it. Luffy was disappointed that it wasn't something to eat. But Nami was more interested in finding out what's inside the chest. She opened it only to find just a skull inside. Usopp read the back of the skull, which engraves about a treasure that can make anyone's dream come true. It lies deep in the ocean's naval. Then a large hole began to form near the crater they crashed into. So Usopp, Nami, and Sanji prepared themselves in a diving barrel to explore the cavity in the sea. Luffy was put in charge of the rope crank. It was a smooth ride, for the trio in the barrel. Right until Luffy got side tracked and found a flying message in the bottle. Which he became disappointed that it wasn't a drink. Then the diving barrel began to fall faster into the naval. Usopp used the hose communicator to warn Luffy, that their in danger. Luffy managed to get hold of the rope. And the barrel barely crashed into the surface of the naval. Usopp, Nami, and Sanji find themselves in a ship graveyard. And were greeted by a laughing bat who says he'll guide them to the treasure. The treasure that Captain Joke tried to steal one decade ago. And they must defeat the 4 large aquatic monsters that were awaken when Joke tried to steal it for himself. Will Luffy and Zoro make it in time to aid their friends? Will they be able to defeat the mammoth monsters? And who is the bat who is driving everyone batty with his laugh?
- DirectorMasaaki TezukaKoji HashimotoTakao OkawaraStarsNoboru KanekoMiho YoshiokaMickey KogaMothra and her fairies return to Japan to warn mankind that they must return Kiryu to the sea, for the dead must not be disturbed. However Godzilla has survived to menace Japan leaving Kiryu as the nation's only defense.
- DirectorRyûhei KitamuraKoji HashimotoShûsuke KanekoStarsMasahiro MatsuokaRei KikukawaDon FryeGodzilla's fiftieth Anniversary project, in which Godzilla travels around the world to fight his old foes and his allies plus a new, mysterious monster named Monster X.
- StarsHideo IshiguroTakaya AoyagiSaki FukudaA spin-off to the TV series Ultraman Orb, the prequel introduces the characters Gai Kurenai and Jugglus Juggler, who, legend has it, once fought for the same power.
- DirectorYoshihiro NishimuraNaoyuki TomomatsuStarsYukie KawamuraTakumi SaitôEri OtoguroA reconstructed girl is created from the pieces of a vampire girl's mini-butchery. Slaughter abounds as both of them pursue the same boy.
- DirectorMotoyoshi OdaIshirô HondaStarsHiroshi KoizumiSetsuko WakayamaMinoru ChiakiScout pilots for a fishing company are startled to discover a second Godzilla, whose battle with rival monster Anguirus threatens to destroy Osaka.
- CreatorEiichi ShimizuTomohiro ShimoguchiEiji TsuburayaStarsJosh HutchersonD.C. DouglasTara SandsShinjiro Hayata learns that his father passed on the "Ultraman Factor" to him and fights against evil.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsJun KunimuraFumi NikaidôShin'ichi TsutsumiA renegade film crew becomes embroiled with a yakuza clan feud.
- DirectorToshiharu IkedaStarsEtsushi ToyokawaKumiko AsôHiroshi AbeA psychological thriller about a series of murders committed using scissors, the people who carried out the murders, and the police who are trying to catch them.
- DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsSumi ShimamotoMahito TsujimuraHisako KyôdaWarrior and pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet.
- DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsChieko BaishôTakuya KimuraTatsuya GashûinWhen an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.
- DirectorShinji IshihiraStarsChihiro SuzukiShinpachi TsujiSayaka ÔharaAnimated prequel to Ichi the Killer (2001), focusing on the origin story of the psychopathic killer Ichi.
- DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsBunta SugawaraAkira KobayashiTsunehiko WataseYakuza boss Shozo Hirono must choose his alliances carefully as the local gangster family affiliations prove themselves to be wildly unstable, causing gang conflicts to slowly escalate.
- DirectorAtsushi MihoriStarsReiko IkeChiyoko KazamaMasami SôdaAfter her father is exploited and killed by a yakuza gang, a tough woman, fresh out of prison, exacts her revenge over said gang with the help of three girls she met in prison.
- DirectorHideaki AnnoStarsSôsuke IkematsuMinami HamabeTasuku EmotoHongo Takeshi awakens to discover he has been transformed into a grasshopper-hybrid cyborg. Becoming the Masked Rider, he must fight the mysterious evil organization SHOCKER to protect all of mankind.
- StarsCrispin FreemanVeronica TaylorTakehito KoyasuAlexiel was a beautiful angel who defined God and was reincarnated in the body of 16- year old Setsuna Mudo who happens to have incest feeling for his sister Sara. Together, they get caught up in a fight between Heaven and Hell.
- CreatorShin'ichirô WatanabeHajime YatateStarsKôichi YamaderaUnshô IshizukaMegumi HayashibaraThe futuristic misadventures and tragedies of an easygoing bounty hunter and his partners.
- DirectorMasakazu ShimuraStarsReiko IkeRyôko EmaNatsuko YashiroReiko Ike is back as a tough schoolgirl who eventually has to band together with her enemies to upset the reign of their private Catholic high school administration where institutionalized sexual abuse is endemic.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKô ShibasakiHideaki ItôEbizô IchikawaFiction begins to bleed into reality for actors (Ebizo Ichikawa, Ko Shibasaki, Hideaki Ito) as they rehearse a stage production of a classic Japanese ghost story.
- DirectorFumihiko SoriStarsRyôsuke YamadaTsubasa HondaDean FujiokaWhen a mysterious figure starts to target State Alchemists for their sins against God, Alchemist Edward Elric and his brother Alphonse are at their most vulnerable, meanwhile the homunculi begin to unveil themselves once again.
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsChinatsu WakatsukiMiku UenoEriko IchinoheJapanese school girls die violently after seeing a man wearing a black hood.
- DirectorYasuharu HasebeStarsMeiko KajiMasakazu TamuraYumi KaneiOnce again on the lam, Matsu is helped by a strip club worker who holds a grudge against the detective who's trying to find her.
- DirectorTeruo IshiiStarsReiko IkeMakoto AikawaArumi KuriOcho gets abducted by a yakuza clan that uses a gang of women to smuggle drugs in their vaginas. Finding out that the kingpin had killed the last boss and abducted his daughter, Ocho joins forces with the drug mules against the clan.
- DirectorKeita AmemiyaStarsMitsuo AbeMakio HiraiwaYukijirô HotaruAn intergalactic bounty hunter squares off against a deadly alien that has taken over the body of her combat android.
- DirectorShimako SatoStarsKimika YoshinoMiho KannoShu-MaMisa Kuroi is an adorable high-school girl who arrives at her new school when it is falling under an evil supernatural force. Trying to figure out who's behind the supernatural attack, Misa also has to deal with assumptions by her fellow classmates that believe she is the one behind it all. Misa and twelve other students are kept late after school hours one day to retake an exam. Then, after sunset, the entire school is deserted, and the students find themselves trapped inside and their teacher no where to be found. One by one, the thirteen students are picked up and disposed of in horrific and graphic fashion. It is up to Misa to try and gain the trust of her fellow students so that she can protect them and stop the evil before it's too late.
- StarsHidetoshi NishijimaTomoya NakamuraGaku HamadaHalf a century has passed since the country declared the coexistence of humans and monsters, an era of chaos. Aoi Izumi, a young human rights activist who appeals for the abolition of discrimination, meets a man.
- DirectorShinsuke SatoStarsYumiko ShakuHideaki ItôYôichi NumataRaised by assassins, Yuki is the last of the Takemikazuchi royal bloodline. A deadly weapon in her own right, she learns the gruesome truth about the death of her beloved mother and joins forces with a mysterious rebel leader.
- DirectorMasayuki SuzukiStarsTakashi SorimachiNorika FujiwaraRena TanakaA live action film version of the hit Japanese TV series staring Takashi Sorimachi as Eikichi Onizuka.
- CreatorHaro AsoStarsShuichiro UmedaZeno RobinsonBill MillsapA worker in a foreign finance company is bullied and worked around the clock, before a zombie outbreak finally makes him feel alive.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKento KakuKonatsu KatoMasayuki DeaiA night in the life of Tokyo taxi driver Midnight, as he encounters quirky characters on his nocturnal trade.
- DirectorYûichi OnumaStarsYûko DaikeYoshihisa HigashiyamaYoshika KatoSeveral teenagers are sent to a island where they must kill each other.
- DirectorKenji MisumiStarsKôjirô HongôShiho FujimuraTarô MaruiGiant statue exacts revenge upon those who conquer its worshippers.
- CreatorMasayoshi KubotaStarsHiroya IshimaruKaneto ShiozawaTesshô GendaIn 2808 A.D., three convicts are conscripted by the Cyber Police to fight crime in the hi-tech metropolis of Oedo - while being forced to wear collars that can kill them at any time.
- DirectorAtsushi YamatoyaStarsGenjiro AratoMoeko EzawaNozomi YasudaA delirious roman porno re-imagining of Seijun Suzuki's 'Branded to Kill'. Directed by Atsushi Yamatoya and scripted by Yôzô Tanaka, both 'Branded to Kill's' screenwriters and Suzuki's regular collaborators.
- DirectorMacoto TezukaStarsReika HashimotoKaori KawamuraShunsuke MatsuokaA Tokyo detective investigates after a fashion model witnesses a brutal slaying by a serial killer.
- StarsKenjirô TsudaAtsushi OnoTatsumaru TachibanaFormer ninja Joe Higan is ambushed by assassins who seek bloody revenge on him and his family for their betrayal, after escaping his clan and fleeing into rural America.
- StarsJonathan LipowOwen ThomasErik BraaIn a post-apocalyptic wasteland, water is controlled by a greedy ruler. Sheriff Rao enlists the king of demons' son Beelzebub and assistant Thief to find a lost lake, facing dangers across the desert.