Acting
Zhen Huan, a 17-year-old innocent introduced into the imperial court as the latest concubine of Emperor Yong Zheng. Her dreams of a new life of love and prosperity are swiftly dashed as she enters a dog-eat-dog world of treachery and corruption.
The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befriend a troubled Shanghai prostitute and fall foul of a local crime syndicate. Like many of Miike's works, the film examines the underbelly of respectable Japanese society and the problems of assimilation faced by non-ethnically Japanese people in Japan.
A filmmaker and crew slowly go insane after being continually haunted by the ghost of a dead actress.
Ran comes to Japan, and makes an immediate impression by assassinating a Yakuza boss and his associates, while they dine in a restaurant.
In 1929 the fossil of a 500,000 year old man is discovered in China. In 1941 the Japanese army confiscates this find, but during the war the remains disappear. Based on these factual events, this movie takes off with a science fiction story involving a space rocket which places a satellite in orbit containing a secret cargo. The satellite crashes on a remote island and footprints are found in the sand leading away from the crash site. A story of how an ancient primitive cave-dwelling family contends with the scientists who want to study them.
A woman, disguised as an office lady, takes revenge for her dead lover.
A yakuza search for his past
Although he graduated from the Department of Photography at a university, Tatsuya, who had been living a agonizing life without getting a job, accidentally ended up working as a photographer for a sex posting magazine. Pick-up, Aokan, SM, soap, but all the sex photos taken by Tatsuya are inked on the model's face, processed as amateur posts and incorporated into the magazine...
