Shinjuku Mad

The Night the Angel Turned Away

July 1999 •Japanese

Distorted Sense of Touch

February 1985 •Japanese

One of legendary "pink" director Hisayasu Sato's first of over 50 examinations of love and sex among the dregs of society, this downbeat picture deals with a sleazy rapist (Taketoshi Watari) who starts a doomed romance with a sullen teenage reject.

Shinjuku Incident

March 2009 •

A simple Chinese immigrant wages a perilous war against one of the most powerful criminal organizations on the planet.

Shinjuku Triad Society

August 1995 •Japanese

Tatsuhito, a cop, pursues Chinese warlord Wang through the underworld of Shinjuku and over to Taiwan.

Unlucky Woman's Blues

July 2014 •Japanese

The lives and loves of several people all intersect in the Golden Gai, a labyrinth of alleys and bars located in central Tokyo.

Shinjuku Midare Machi: Ikumade Matte

September 1977 •Japanese

The story of a group of artistic people centred around a bar in Shinjuku.

Diary of a Shinjuku Thief

February 1969 •Japanese

In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.

HEAT -Incandescence- PART I

April 2004 •Japanese

A young man named Tatsumi Karasawa suddenly rises in the criminal world of Shinjuku, Tokyo, and becomes the leader of a group of amateurs who show no reluctance to face police and gangs alike. His successes in the Tokyo underground make a chief and a yakuza boss plot a conspiracy to eliminate him.

Ah, Wilderness: Part 1

October 2017 •Japanese

Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a hopeless situation.

HEAT -Incandescence- PART II

May 2004 •Japanese

A young man suddenly rises to the top of the underworld in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Other crime bosses now conspire to take him down.

Midnight Swan

September 2020 •Japanese

Nagisa is transgender. She grew up in Hiroshima as a man, but now lives in Shinjuku, Tokyo as a woman. Due to an incident, she begins to live with middle school student Ichika, who is a distant relative. Ichika has been neglected by her mother Saori. From living in solitude by herself, to now living with Ichika, Nagisa develops maternal instincts for the first time.

I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident

March 1985 •Japanese

On the night of August 19, 1980, a bus was set on fire by the vagrant Hirofumi Maruyama at the Shinjuku West Exit Bus Terminal. In the burning flames, Mitsuko, who was exhausted by her affair, suddenly thought of suicide. As a result, she escaped too late from the bus and suffered a serious injury. From there, she was hospitalized for a long time. As she gradually recovered, the wife of her affair partner, Soroku Sugihara, died of cancer. Soroku proposed to Mitsuko again, and they lived together. Due to Soroku's mounting debt, they decided to flee to Tojinbo. With the desperate persuasion of her acquaintances, Mitsuko regained her desire to "live again."

Delinquent Street

February 1972 •Japanese

Inuyashiki

April 2018 •Japanese

A middle-aged office worker encounters aliens and is gifted with alien technology and limitless powers.

Shinjuku Tiger

March 2019 •Japanese

Shinjuku Tiger, a Japanese documentary, is named after its subject, a colorful figure who has been a feature of the Shinjuku scene since the 1970s.

Shinjuku baka monogatari

September 1977 •Japanese

Japanese film from 1977.

Winter Elegy

September 2024 •Indonesian

Four husbands were lost in a plane crash. In a time of sorrow, 4 wives discovered that the true love of the 4 husbands was not them.

Maa Nanna Superhero

October 2024 •Telugu

Johnny, a car mechanic, who grew up thinking of his adopted father Srinivas as a superhero, prepared to go to any length to save his father, unknowingly embarks on a journey with his biological father.