A collection of genre films from Japanese arthouse director Shinji Aoyama. In    Wild Life (1997, 121 mins.), Kosuke Toyohara stars as a former boxer       who's thrust into a thorny maze of blackmail, deception, and yakuza violence     when his boss, a game parlor owner, goes missing. Aoyama utilizes a            complicated series of flashbacks to bring an exciting new flare to the yakuza  thriller genre. Then An Obsession (1997m 109 mins.), a paranoid,         nightmarish crime thriller, begins when a single gunshot forever changes the     life of police detective Saga (Ryo Ishibashi, Audition). In a heartbeat  his job, his health, and his family are ripped away from him, as the detective finds himself the key suspect in a brutal spate of killings. With EM:       Embalming (1999, 120 mins.), Aoyama delves into the world of embalming w  ith a corporeal horror film to frighten even the most hardened of shock cinema     fans. Undertaker Miyako Murakami (Reiko Takashima) suspects foul play when she discovers a needle embedded in the body of an apparent suicide. Her search for answers leads her into a world of multiple personalities, black market orga  n   trading, illegal drug experiments, ritual murder, and worse. In Japanese with  Shinji Aoyama---Japan---1997-1999---307 mins.