Ulterior Motives

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation

Izumi Hoshi is senior in high school, but she led a small yakuza group in her past. After killing her uncle's murderer with a machine gun, her yakuza group disbanded. Izumi now lives an ordinary life as a high school student and works as a manager at a cafe. A dangerous situation soon awaits for Izumi.
Movie Star Rating : 5.9  Read More

Brother

A Japanese Yakuza gangster’s deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother’s gang.
Movie Star Rating : 7.2  Read More

Bridget Joness Diary

A chaotic Bridget Jones meets a snobbish lawyer, and he soon enters her world of imperfections.
Movie Star Rating : 6.7  Read More

Dolls

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.
Movie Star Rating : 7.6  Read More

Knockout

Johnny Rocket (Arthur Kennedy) needs to fight one more match to have enough money to get married to Angela (Olympe Bradna) and start on his dream to run and then own a gym. However, his manager makes sure that this does not happen and eventually Johnny embraces being a fighter, but Angela becomes increasingly unhappy.
Movie Star Rating : 5.5  Read More

Lured Innocence

A reporter sent to cover a murder trial discovers a web of deceit stemming from a torrid affair.
Movie Star Rating : 5  Read More

The Desperate Women

The film is a cheesy but sincere plea for proper sex education-and against illegal abortion.
Movie Star Rating : 0  Read More

Zodiac

A cartoonist teams up with an ace reporter and a law enforcement officer to track down an elusive serial killer.
Movie Star Rating : 7.5  Read More

Wasabi

Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his girlfriend who left him shortly after marriage without a trace.
Movie Star Rating : 6.6  Read More

The Believer

A hardcore US racist skinhead who, because of his intelligence, leads a gang dedicated to fighting the enemy: the supposed American-Jewish conspiracy for domination. However, he's hiding a secret: he's Jewish-born, a brilliant scholar whose questioning of the tenets of his faith has left him angry and confused, turning against those who he thinks have a tragic history of their own making.
Movie Star Rating : 6.9  Read More

Black Rain

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. However, in Japan he manages to escape, and as they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game—the Japanese way.
Movie Star Rating : 6.6  Read More