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As construction workers prepare to break ground for a nuclear power plant in a futuristic Tokyo, several punk rock bands stage a protest, setting off a chain reaction of events that’s anything but peaceful. Soon enough, police officers clad in riot gear and a band of Yakuza thugs are butting heads with a pair of armor-laden bikers who’ve mysteriously arrived to stir …

Tak Sakaguchi is Prisoner KSC2-303, a criminal who has just escaped from a maximum-security prison. After he heads to the Forest of Resurrection to rendezvous with some gangsters, KSC2-303’s escape plan veers off course when an argument with one of the gangsters leads to death. Worse still, KSC2-303 finds out the hard way that when you kill something in the Forest of Resurrection, it …

When 10-year-old Tadashi Ino stumbles into a spirit war, it’s up to him to free the spirit world from the forces of repression in director Takashi Miike’s genre-bending fantasy tale. Populated by mod villains, scrap-metal robot monsters and goblins from Japanese folklore, this children’s adventure yarn marks a departure from the gory action flicks that have become Miike’s stock in …

When a space probe crash-lands on a far-flung Pacific atoll, the craft’s alien stowaways decide to take over their new world one creature at a time. Soon, the parasitic life forms latch onto three indigenous critters — a squid, a crab and a snapping turtle — and transform them into colossal mutant monsters. Akira Kubo,Atsuko Takahashi and Kenji Sahara star …

Eighty years in the future, time is running out for mankind. The only hope rests with a brave time traveler who must return to the past to change history… and alter Earth’s destiny. 20084, After decades of intense fighting, an alien invasion force is close to  destroying what’s left of the world. In a last-ditch effort to save the human race, a guerilla …

A new romance between factory workers Yôji and Sachiko is going well — that is, until aliens invade Earth and implant themselves into tumor-like growths on human shoulders. When Sachiko is attacked and transformed into a slave cyborg, it’s up to the half-infected Yôji to rescue his lover. Co-directors Junichi Yamamoto and Yudai Yamaguchi surround their tender love story with …

The titanic plesiosaur faces off against the winged pterosaur in a battle to the death while a geologist and his girlfriend fight for survival in this 1977 Japanese sci-fi  spectacular, infamously featured on “Mystery Science Theater 3000.” The high-budget entry from Toei Studios, an outfit not generally known for its monsters, still packs a satisfyingly campy punch. Title: Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds  …

Sogo Ishii directs this bizarre tale of a young Tokyo outcast whose traumatic past has led him to a dreadfully disturbing present. After enduring too many bouts of electroshock therapy, Dragon Eye (Tadanobu Asano) has developed a problem: His body is charged up with 80,000 volts of electricity, which has pretty much killed his social life. Fortunately, he is able …

In this second installment of the Eko Eko Azarak series, a young teenage girl, Kuroi Misa, is on the run accompanied by a mysterious guardian who helps herrealize and learn to use the amazing supernatural powers she possesses. Whena deadly ancient spirit is unleashed from a cursed tomb, it sets its sights on Kuroi with the intent to kill her. …

Kimika Yoshino stars in this supernatural thriller as Misa Kuroi, a teen with powers of wizardry she only wants to use for good. But when she and 12 of her schoolmates are locked down in the school by a ghostly force that’s picking them off one by one, Misa must be ready to fight for everyone’s survival, including her own. …