Yoji Tanaka Movies

In the district of Shinjuku, a cut-throat rōnin student crosses paths with an uninspired painter who does the utmost for his envisioned muse.

Yoshito (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) becomes famous in Kyoto because of his ability to solve cases. The special investigation unit receives a request to...

Although they are still teenagers, the Zenigata Sisters are detectives, and have a grandfather in the Inspector General. They possess an uncanny...

An obsessive-compulsive Japanese librarian living in Bangkok spends most of his days contemplating suicide in his apartment. His life changes when he...

Three short films with the theme of death and dead ends in common.

L stopped enjoying life as a little girl. She flees abuse at the hands of her adoptive parents and heads for the big city. There, L's life is wrecked...

Ghostly horror film based on the original story by horror manga artist Kanako Inuki, adapted from various horror episodes.

When pregnant lunchbox factory worker Yayoi has finally taken all the abuse she can handle, she strangles her brutish husband and disposes of the...

How have you been? Takeshi's letter is delivered one each month to his younger brother, Naoki. Takeshi is serving a life term in prison for the crime...

Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism. His faith in pacifism, however, is shaken and...

An omnibus drama that delivers suspense with a bad aftertaste, a number of bad endings with a hopeless aftertaste, and indescribable "unbearable"...

A love story in the style of a psycho-thriller, depicting the relationship between a female police officer who continues to have an affair and the...

A young samurai stuck at the bottom of the hierarchical order attempts to rescue his childhood sweetheart from an evil clan lord after learning of a...

A pair of siblings visit a friend in a remote town with a strange effect on its inhabitants; when they die, they transform into gravestones.

Student Yuko is a vain person who appears to be carefree and aggressive on the outside, but her personal life is reserved and simple. One day she...

The tale follows the intentional non-adventures of quiet Tachibana (Takeshi Ito), a Tokyo drifter who has worked in a suburban sausage shop for...

A foppish English businessman (Christian Storms) stages a martial-arts contest between champions of two rival yakuza gangs to resolve a dispute over...

Remake of the Korean film Ditto about a college student in the past who falls in love with a boy from the future.

Made under the restrictions of "no zoom, pan, editing or post-sound", directors Shinobu Yaguchi and Takuji Suzuki skewer Japanese social conventions...