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- A late night TV presenter receives a snuff tape, in which a woman is brutally killed. She decides to take a crew out to a location indicated in the tape, but only death and despair await them.
- The story of a Ronin (i.e. a masterless samurai) who wanders the countryside of Japan with his small child, having various adventures.
- Only legendary Japanese garage rock band Guitar Wolf can stand between a race of aliens from destroying earth with an army of zombies.
- Kawashima, Kajima, and Sadakuni spend their days riding motorcycles and terrorizing/raping young girls. Kawashima is overly protective of his little sister, Megu, who does not know about her brother's terrible activities.
- A female projectionist suddenly comes to the self-realization that she just in fact may be a serial killer responsible for brutally murdering everyone around her.
- Obsessed with the idea of owning his first car so he can have sex in it, a young man takes any job he can find and ends up in an escalating series of crazy situations.
- Zatoichi tries to unrest the mob rule over a small village all while the gang leader's bodyguard is actually the Yojimbo, secretly taking the gang down from the inside. Will the two heroes realize in time that they are on the same side?
- A doctor investigates the murders of several women at a lakeside resort. His investigation leads him to believe that a vampire is responsible for the murders. He sets out to track the vampire down.
- When a writer for a porn magazine, watches a "rape" porn that is set in a school, he becomes obsessed with the lead actress, Nami, and tries to find her. He meets her by chance as he arrives for a shoot at a hotel.
- In order to settle a business dispute, a mob leader murders one of his own teenage sons. The surviving son vows to avenge his brother's death, and organizes his own gang of teenage killers to destroy his father's organization.
- Based on a centuries-old traditional Japanese fairy tale, a country couple finds a baby girl in some bamboo and raises her as their own daughter. Not the same as the original tale, though, in which the girl was a fairy from the moon and was finally taken home.
- Nine convicts escape from prison; most are convicted murderers. They commandeer a van from a strip club.
- In a town where debt-ridden peasants are being ruthlessly exploited, Zatoichi is forced to take sides between a cruel yakuza boss and his seemingly altruistic rival.
- Zatoichi meets an infamous blind leader of a gangster organization as he contends with a gloomy ronin widower.
- Two of Japan and China's greatest heroic swordsman find themselves caught in a plot to protect a young child. But will national distrust and simple misunderstanding keep the two kindred spirits apart?
- An inexperienced gangster is killed alongside his strong, respected boss and awakens to find a mad scientist has given him a new body made partly of his boss and partly of indestructible bionics.
- Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.
- While the leader is in jail, his leftist group is controlled by his girlfriend, but her leadership lacks conviction and perspective. When the leader commits suicide in prison, despair and confusion rule the group and revenge and violence erupts in graphic way.
- A rebellious Korean artist tests the limits of his sadistic patron, an omnipotent feudal Japanese lord. Yoshihide demands a commission to paint screens of the Hell which he sees the egotistical lord's peasants suffer. Such a public display will challenge the uncaring upper class' obsession with their own personal beauty. With Chinese and Buddhist influences at a peak in 11th century Japan, the daimyo Horikawa wanted a mural of Buddhist paradise. As Yoshihide's ghastly artworks appear to come to life, the painter and his patron's mutual racism also take their toll.
- Described as 'the most famous of all Germans having committed atrocities during the war' by the Jewish Virtual Library, Ilse Koch has won a diabolic kind of immortality as the lady with the lampshade made of human skin.
- A team of jewel thieves are caught between a yakuza gang and a mass of zombies when they enter an abandoned factory once used as a site for secret experiments by the U.S. military.
- After accidentally causing an old lady's death, Zatoichi seeks out her daughter to atone for the tragedy, consequently getting into all sorts of trouble.
- A sex bot named Malice is attacked by a creature with tentacles. After it has its way with the bot it destroys it, but Malice comes back to life with the ability to spread life to other bots like a disease.
- A yakuza hitman gets out of jail and decides to start a new life, but soon his old life catches up with him.
- A samurai warrior is haunted by the spirit of his first wife.
- Rachel discovers she is pregnant. When she is about to break the news to her boyfriend Bill, he dumps her. Heartbroken and angry, Rachel takes his car, clears out their joint bank account and heads off.
- Zatoichi returns to his home village for the first time in over ten years to find much has changed and that corruption abounds.
- Three apparently unrelated suicides occur on the same day in Tokyo. One involves a young athlete, one a groom at his wedding reception, and the third an elderly man celebrating his wife's birthday. A middle aged detective investigating one of the cases begins to suspect a connection between the three when he discovers that each person mentioned a "green monkey" before they died. With the help of a young psychiatrist he formulates the theory that hypnosis is somehow involved. In the mean time other bizarre "suicides" are reported and the mystery intensifies. Who will be next? What is the truth? Can more deaths be prevented?
- A kotatsu comes alive and tries to eat people
- A woman with the power to start fires with her mind searches for revenge for the murder of her friend by men above the law.
- Tachibana is a mob hit man, just released from 10 years in prison where he kicked his drug habit. He's dismayed to find that the code of conduct he honors no longer counts, and soon gets into trouble when he defends a call girl, Yuki, from a pimp who is connected to another gang. Running drugs is where all the action is, and Tachibana scorns junkies and pushers. Can Tachibana navigate this new world, protect Yuki and help her quit drugs, counsel his acolyte, stay true to his code, and maybe find a way out of the gang?
- A city has law and order enforced by punishment squads. When a boy is found murdered a culprit is sought and put to death. But another child is killed and the city becomes convinced that it is a soul risen from the dead seeking vengeance.
- A power struggle occurs at a hospital where a murder has been committed.
- A hapless door-to-door salesman tries to sell his 'miracle cure' to an unappreciative public.
- In 1958 Ireland, family problems force a Donegal woman to the city of Derry; a city in turmoil as the Irish nation suffers and revolts from the brutal British invading forces.
- A naïve/credulous/gullible/ shy young man (Stan Laurel) finds himself alone on an island inhabited by very enterprising/ sprightly women.
- 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' was published in 1865, and revolutionized children's writing. It made a mockery of much that had preceded it; the cautionary tales where young mischievous children were soundly punished for their misdeeds, and school tales that expressed the view that those who obeyed the rules would be celebrated and rewarded. At its core is a world where cause and effect have little relationship in either the material or moral sphere. Yet within this baffling and unpredictable realm, one character emerges who is capable of challenging the chaos and attempting to bestow order on it. Alice. This program explores the tragic and impossible love affair that underlay the creation of this work of comic and verbal genius. It also investigates the influences that helped form the attitudes of the brilliant Oxford don who gave birth to a unique world whose influence on every form of creative media can hardly be overestimated.
- Stan is a detective who essentially relies on different costumes to successfully complete his investigations.
- Lewis Carroll (1832-98) was an English writer, logician, mathematician, Anglican deacon and photographer. He excelled in two of these fields, photography and writing. As a photographer, he brought a sense of human fragility to the somewhat wooden Victorian scene. Carroll's literary influence is difficult to overestimate, with disciples ranging from James Joyce to Douglas Adams and beyond. But the real man, Charles Dodgson, did his best to distance himself from his nom-de-plume, being of a shy disposition and suffering from a stutter. Despite these disabilities and his conservative viewpoints, he lived a very different life from what might be expected of a bachelor don. He enjoyed an intense emotional life, filled not only by his child friends, but what was more shocking in a deacon for the Victorians, his love of the theatre.
- Small-time con man, Jiro (Shunsuke Matsuoka), makes his living tricking small businesses out of large sums of money. In the process he acquires a helpmate Kumiko, a refugee from her stepfather's sexual abuse. But things start to get out of control when yakuza boss Kamewada (Shohei Hino), muscles in on the action.
- In retaliation for devastating Allied bombing raids on German cities, Hitler orders the development of a groundbreaking weapon. This is the story of one of the most ambitious projects of the Third Reich: Hitler's Vengeance weapon, the V1. Though it was ready too late to make a difference to the outcome of the war, its legacy is the cruise missile -- a weapon that changed the face of war forever.