Ring 0
(2000) [M]

The prequel to the horror film Ring, this movie provides the background story of how Sadako later became the vengeful murdering spirit. The story starts with her as a shy, somewhat withdrawn, college student who nonetheless gets involved in a drama club. The director thinks she has talent, but...  More

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
(2001) [M]

Set on Mars in the year 2071, COWBOY BEBOP: THE MOVIE is based on the much-loved animated television series by Japanese director Shinichiro Watanabe. (The show airs on the Cartoon Network in the U.S.) As the film begins, Spike (David Lucas) and his gang of gypsy vigilantes are roaming the city,...  More

Tokyo Drifter
(1966) [R]

In Tokyo, the gangster Tetsu (Tetsuya Watari) regenerates when his yakuza boss Kurata (Ryuji Kita) decides to quit his criminal life. However, the mobster family leaded by Otsuka (Hideaki Esumi) threatens Kurata's legitimate business, and Tetsu decides to leave Kurata to relief the pressure on...  More

Spirited Away (Studio Ghibli - 2 disc set)
(2002) [PG]

"Spectacularly inventive." -Jane Horwitz, Washington Post From one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the history of animated cinema comes the most acclaimed film of 2002. Hayao Miyazaki's latest triumph, filled with astonishing animation and epic adventure, is a dazzling masterpiece for all...  More

Princess Blade
(2001) [MA]

In an unknown country closed off from the outside world for well over 500 years, the ruling dictatorship enlists the help of the Takemikazuchi family, a clan of skilled assassins who sought asylum from their nation years ago. The most highly trained member of the family is Princess Yuki, killing...  More

Battle Royale
(2001) [R]

At the dawn of the new millennium, Japan is in a state of near-collapse. Unemployment is at an all-time high, and violence amongst the nation's youth is spiralling out of control. With school children boycotting their lessons and physically abusing their teachers, a beleaguered and near-defeated...  More

Sanjuro
(1963) [PG]

In response to the huge critical and commercial success of Yojimbo, Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune re-teamed a year later to make Sanjuro, a hilarious comedy of manners altogether more light-hearted than its predecessor. The plot has Sanjuro (Mifune) running lazy rings around nine naive and...  More

The Grudge (Ju-on)
(2003) [M]

It looks like a normal, everyday house, but the atmosphere about it is anything but. Something happened here once... no, even now there is a terror here, born of a spirit that possesses this place. The various supernatural experiences undergone by the different owners of the house, unaware of the...  More

Versus
(2000) [R]

Many believe that there are 666 gates to Hell hissen here on earth.Legend says that somewhere in Japan's 'Forest of Resurrection' lies the 444th gate.Escaped prisoner KSC2-303 is doubled crossed by his rescuers and flees into the mysterious forest. Within the trees, dead Yakuza come back to life...  More

The Sea is Watching
(2002) [MA]

Set in a 19th-century brothel, The Sea Is Watching is the story of a beautiful young geisha, O-Shin (Nagiko Tohno), who harbors a samurai (Rhapsody in August's Hidetaka Yoshioka) seeking refuge. Falling in love with O-Shin, the samurai hopes to cleanse her of the sins of her profession. But fate...  More