Junji Sakamoto Movies

Whether it's someone mixing burnables and recyclables or noise from a neighbor's domestic spat, there's always something occupying the residents of a...

A dream collaboration between five directors who represent the modern Japanese film industry! An omnibus work composed of five short films has been...

Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, a dull novelist and a legendary killer. Susumu...

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...

Three stories with horror and science fiction elements. 1st episode: "The Curse of Tutankhamen" (Tsutankâmen no noroï) by Kazuyuki Izutsu....

A lonely researcher doubting his own existence builds an android which looks exactly like himself.

Freddy Maemura Hurtado, a second-generation Japanese-Bolivian, heads to Cuba to study medicine. He meets revolutionist Che Guevara. When civil war...

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

The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. It's a small god with a pointed head, a fat belly...

Hisashi gets fired from his temp job due to his impulsiveness. One day he meets Chikako, a housewife who constantly shoplifts at the supermarket he...

A school bus driver's life is irrevocably altered when his young son is kidnapped and murdered.

A directionless young man, recently released from prison, tries to make a new start in life as a boxer...

Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association

Junji Sakamoto's documentary follows legendary boxing champ Joichiro over 20 years, from the ages 25 to 44. In a series of meetings, like the 7 Up...

A young Japanese boy's life is changed when his sister returns to the small island, full of eccentric characters, where he lives.