Jun Hamamura – IDLIX

Intimidation

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 09:31:04 +0000

Koreyoshi Kurahara’s ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama.

Play it, Boogie-Woogie

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:01:17 +0000

A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. The film follows their subsequent chaotic relationships.

Case of the Disjointed Murder

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 08:15:28 +0000

In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists, novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, actresses, etc. Then the murders begin, one after another. The incident seemed to have no continuity…

Wet Lust: Opening the Tulip

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:46:19 +0000

Akira and Hiroshi are two lowlives who work at a pachinko parlour. Hiroshi is a ladies’ man but always loses at pachinko. Akira is a virgin at 25 but always wins. Hiroshi tries to get Akira laid with little success but things change when Akira is informed of a 88 million yen inheritance. But only if he can get married.

Lost Love

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 01:35:14 +0000

At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent family, and Yamazaki, son of an engineer at the local nuclear power-plant, are found tied-to on a beach, as if they intended to commit double suicide. Nogami, a reporter, begins to investigate.

Bamboo Doll of Echizen

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 01:20:28 +0000

Kisuke, a young bamboo worker marries Tomoe, a geisha who was once involved with Kisuke’s late father.

The Inferno

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:55:47 +0000

Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother’s grief from beyond the grave.

The Demon

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:51:14 +0000

When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi – and his very surprised and angry wife Oume – and disappears.

Watch Out, Crimson Bat!

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:50:34 +0000

A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her, the scroll is actually a formula for a new kind of gunpowder. An evil clan that is planning to overthrow the Emperor is also after the scroll, and they try to take it from her.

Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:45:32 +0000

A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out of a tenement building and destroy the shrine in back. But he makes the fatal mistake of hosting a 100 Ghost Stories ceremony without the closing cleansing ritual, opening the door for the Yokai Monsters to punish the wicked.