Dora-heita (AKA: I Went To)

IMDB: 6.7/10

A new magistrate cleans up a corrupt town in his own comic samurai way.

Kagemusha (AKA: Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior)

IMDB: 7.9/10

A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.

Ôdishon (AKA: Audition)

IMDB: 7.1/10

A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.

Rinjin 13-gô (AKA: The Neighbor No. Thirteen)

IMDB: 6.3/10

Jûzô Murasaki is a boy miscast in his classroom, being frequently abused, tortured, beaten and humiliated by the bully Tôru Akai and his gang of juvenile punks. After years of repression, rejection and fear without facing Akai, he...

The Shining (1997)

IMDB: 6.1/10

A recovering alcoholic must wrestle with demons within and without when he and his family move into a haunted hotel as caretakers.

Nihon no ichiban nagai hi (AKA: Japan's Longest Day)

IMDB: 7.7/10

A dramatization of the 24-hour period in which the Japanese government was deadlocked over the decision to accept or reject the Allies' demand for an unconditional surrender following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

El orfanato (AKA: The Orphanage)

IMDB: 7.4/10

A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.

American Gangster

IMDB: 7.8/10

An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.