The Couch Critic Logo
The Couch CriticCouch Critic
TrendingMoviesTV ShowsListsReviewsWhat to Watch
LogoThe Couch Critic

Menu

TrendingMoviesTV ShowsListsReviewsWhat to Watch

© 2026 The Couch Critic

The Couch Critic Logo

The Couch Critic

Your go-to destination for honest movie and TV show reviews from a passionate community of critics. Join the conversation today.

Explore

  • Trending
  • Movies
  • TV Shows
  • Reviews
  • Lists
  • Games
  • About Us

Categories

  • Popular Movies
  • Trending Now
  • Upcoming
  • Airing Today
  • Movie Genres
  • TV Genres

Community

  • Guides
  • What to Watch

Legal

  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service
  • Cookie Policy
  • RSS Feed
© 2026 The Couch Critic.•Built by Hayden Thorn
Cookie Settings

This application uses TMDB and the TMDB APIs but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB.

D

Directors Company

JP

Movies

Browse 30 movies from Directors Company

Filter by media type
Filter by genre
Sort media results
Door poster
Movie

Yasuko, a housewife, lives in an urban high-rise apartment with her husband Satoru and her son Takuto. Annoyed by spam calls and door-to-door salesmen, Yasuko slams the door on a salesman’s hand when he tries to squeeze a flyer through the apartment's chained front door. He leaves, but the next day, her nightmare starts.

Door

May 1988

Love Hotel poster
Movie

A call-girl named Yumi and Tetsuro, a married man with a debt to the yakuza, have a violent rendezvous in a cheap love hotel. Years later, haunted by the memory of that night, they reconnect and begin a strange love affair. Determined to finish what they started, they return to the scene of their first macabre passion.

Love Hotel

Aug 1985

Typhoon Club poster
Movie

Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which six of the students endure while marooned in their school.

Typhoon Club

Aug 1985

The Crazy Family poster
Movie

Shortly after moving to the suburbs, the Kobayashis start to come undone. Convinced a family curse is at the root of their erratic behavior, the man of the house takes it upon himself to course-correct before it takes the last of their sanity.

The Crazy Family

Jun 1984

Bumpkin Soup poster
Movie

Country girl Akiko visits a Tokyo college in search of her hometown sweetheart. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus–blasé intellectuals, horny co-eds, a psych professor in search of the theory of shame, and of course her beloved Yoshioka, who has become an elusive campus nobody.

Bumpkin Soup

Nov 1985

Evil Dead Trap poster
Movie

A talk show hostess takes a camera crew out to an abandoned factory to investigate a purported snuff film that was made there. As she gets closer to the truth, she and her friends are subjected to a brutal nightmare.

Evil Dead Trap

May 1988

Scent of a Spell poster
Movie

A young man saves a woman who is trying to commit suicide, gradually discovering more about her troubled past.

Scent of a Spell

Dec 1985

Tokyo Heaven poster
Movie

A pampered young model is killed in a traffic accident. Given the chance to return to earth, she becomes involved with the advertising executive who is trying to cover up her death. A blend of fantasy and trenchant realism in which Somai uses the ethereal glow of advertising images to comment on the transience of life.

Tokyo Heaven

Jun 1990

Kandagawa Pervert Wars poster
Movie

Two sexually energized young women who live in a high-rise apartment building happen one day to spy from their window a mother and son making love in the apartment across from theirs. They decide to stage a rescue attempt to free him and in the process one of the young women ends up falling in love with the son despite having a boyfriend and enjoying sex with her female companion. Of course, the mother they are warring against has her own plans when she feels her privacy invaded.

Kandagawa Pervert Wars

Aug 1983

The Guard from Underground poster
Movie

An ex sumo wrestler turned corporate security guard goes on a murderous rampage at his place of employment.

The Guard from Underground

Jun 1992

Mermaid Legend poster
Movie

A married couple of abalone divers must confront ruthless investors taking over their coastline.

Mermaid Legend

Apr 1984

Luminous Woman poster
Movie

A hulking man from the country pursues his beloved to the underworld of Tokyo nightclubs, where he finds work as a sideshow wrestler and becomes involved with a faded opera singer.

Luminous Woman

Oct 1987

Wolf: Running Is Sex poster
Movie

A serial rapist's violent daily routine is disrupted when a disaffected young woman who shares his primal lifestyle begins living with him.

Wolf: Running Is Sex

Nov 1982

One Who Died in Vain poster
Movie

After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home.

One Who Died in Vain

Apr 1986

Eien no 1/2 poster
Movie

An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. They start dating but then strange things then begin to happen to him, including a beating from the local yakuza. - Wikipedia

Eien no 1/2

Nov 1987

Yojo no jidai poster
Movie

Adapted from Shusaku Endō's novel.

Yojo no jidai

Oct 1988

So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex poster
Movie

Rachi has aspirations of becoming a punk rocker. But his tendency towards self-sabotage and a budding sexual addiction makes matters increasingly difficult for him and his band mates to make it big.

So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex

Nov 1982

The House of Wedlock poster
Movie

Tokiko Enomoto finds out that her husband Kazuya, who mostly lives at an apartment near his work while she and their children live at home, has been having an affair with a live-in mistress, Ryōko, at his apartment. Tokiko tells her two sons, Tarō and Jirō, that she has decided to divorce their father. The children are shocked but understand their mother's position. Kazuya realizes the damage he has done and tries to remedy the situation.

The House of Wedlock

Oct 1986

The Fearsome Melody poster
Movie

A haunted melody, a used record one must possess. At any cost. Adapted from Junji Ito's short story Used Record.

The Fearsome Melody

Jun 2026

Harlem Valentines Day: Blood Is Sex poster
Movie

Set in the near future after a nuclear war, the film portrays a man who is searching for his former lover.

Harlem Valentines Day: Blood Is Sex

Nov 1982

Page 1 of 2