This wide-ranging collection is brimming with horror and thrillers, romance, historical drama, hybrid films, and documentaries. Nagisa Oshima’s 100 Years of Japanese Cinema provides an entry point, taking us from Japanese silent cinema and through the postwar Golden Age to the Japanese New Wave, tracing the movement from melodrama to greater realism and beyond. Under the banner of Daiei Gothic, we present a Ghost Stories trilogy, including The Ghost of Yotsuya (1959), The Bride from Hades (1968), and The Snow Woman (1968). Other highlights include Rear Window rival Elegant Beast (1962) by Yuzo Kawashima, Shohei Imamura’s existential procedural A Man Vanishes (1967), Hirokazu Kore-eda’s fantasy romance Air Doll (2009), Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s disturbing series Penance (2014), and the soberingly sinister Plan 75 by Chie Hayakawa (2022). The most recent entry is Hisayo Saika’s thought-provoking exposé on culture wars and growing government intervention in Education and Nationalism (2023) — an issue that touches not only Japan but countries all over the world.