Tomoyo Ōshima Movies

1970s Japan saw the rise of biker gangs, known as Bōsōzoku, which drew the interest of the media. God Speed You! Black Emperor follows a...

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of...

A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel...

Four young high school students who dream of being in a rock band must deal with the unexpected deaths of their friends while making concert...

Akira is haunted by a "bouncing ball" song that he remembers his mother singing when he was a small child, and now on the verge of a sexually active...

A hardened gangster encounters by chance a woman he hasn't seen since childhood. They are both engulfed in the underground world of intergang warfare.

Comedy about a woman who finds a new life after she loses her busband.

Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes...

Sakura is a 20-year-old college student who has sex for money to fund her shopping addiction. After her customers leave her apartment, she spends her...

Film about a pirate radio station.

Rica and Kengo have been living together for the past four years. It's been a very happy time for Rica; the only dark spot being an accident she...

Set in Osaka, this film depicts a tough-girl who falls for an unknown rock guitarist and throws herself into efforts to make his band get big.

A travelling group of young people running a pirate radio station from a small truck encounter an eccentric elderly couple who are on the run from...

When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble of a destroyed shantytown they plan to haul it out...

Erotic thriller about a porn photographer who has to deal with a psychopath.

An antique sword exposes tension between three siblings.

When a man chases down his stolen movie camera, the thief commits suicide by jumping off a building. But after the police take the camera as...

Adapted from Shusaku Endō's novel.