Based on Mark McShane's novel, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, this highly acclaimed thriller from one of Japan's new masters, Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Bright Future), stars Koji Yakusho (Warm Water Under A Red Bridge) as a sound effects engineer living with his psychic wife (Jun Fubuki, Pulse). When the couple suddenly find themselves ensnared in a young girl's kidnapping, they devise a solution that soon goes terribly awry. A moody, atmospheric shocker from one of the most exciting directors working today.

Based on Mark McShane's novel, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, this highly acclaimed thriller from one of Japan's new masters, Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Bright Future), stars Koji Yakusho (Warm Water Under A Red Bridge) as a sound effects engineer living with his psychic wife (Jun Fubuki, Pulse). When the couple suddenly find themselves ensnared in a young girl's kidnapping, they devise a solution that soon goes terribly awry. A moody, atmospheric shocker from one of the most exciting directors working today.

Japanese horror producer Taka Ichise -- the force behind Ringu and Ju-on: The Grudge -- and Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the director of Pulse, team up for the supernatural horror picture Retribution (aka Sakebi), starring Koji Yakusho, Riona Hazuki, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Manami Konishi, Ryo Kase, Hiroyuki Hirayama, and J Odagiri. Yakusho plays Yoshioka, a cop tormented by strange details surrounding the murder of a local woman (Riona Hazuki) in a red dress. Though ostensibly killed by being drowned in a shallow, tepid pool of muddy water, an autopsy reveals the woman's belly as full of seawater. Moreover, a button found at the murder scene matches one that is missing from a coat Yoshioka purchased, and fingerprints that cover the body match his own. Yoshioka thus immediately reasons that he must have killed the woman but blocked it out, despite the assurance of his colleagues that he probably just touched the body sans gloves. He is soon visited repeatedly by the apparition of the victim (red dress intact). As these visita

One of the leading voices in the new Japanese cinema, Shinji Aoyama directs this saga about memory, grief, and redemption. Shot in stark black and white, the film opens with the sudden and inexplicably bloody hijacking of a bus in rural Kyushu. The crazed gunman (Riju Go) shoots two passengers in the back as they try to flee. Stepping out of the bus for some fresh air, the hijacker drags bus driver Makoto (played by the ubiquitous Koji Yakusho) along for cover. When the driver faints and falls to the ground, police snipers shoot the terrorist. In his last dying effort, the hijacker stumbles back on board the bus, where he murders an old lady and tries to kill a pair of shocked schoolchildren, Naoki (Masaru Miyazaki) and Kozue (Aoi Miyazaki). Two years later, the experience has wreaked havoc on the lives of the three sole survivors. Distanced and easily distracted, Makoto's weird behavior -- particularly his habit of wandering off unannounced for days at a time -- finally takes its toll on his marriage. Meanw

Yasujiro (Koji Yakusho) tries to communicate with his daughter Chieko (Rinko Kikuchi).