Mantaro Koichi

A comedy about how the world of politics really works! Tsutomu is a secretary for a member of the Japanese Parliament. After the latter suffers a heart attack, his daughter Yumi is chosen to fill his place in the next election because she seems easy to control. However, her unpredictable behavior soon throws the campaign out of control.

Karen is an ordinary high school student in Tokyo, but she sometimes recalls pieces of her childhood memories that she did not know before. During the process of getting her passport for a school trip, Karen views her family register. She learns that she had an older sister Yukari, who died at the age of 4. Karen also learns that her parents are not her biological parents and that she was adopted. Karen now wants to learn about herself. She lies to her parents and tells them that she is leaving on the school trip. Instead, she travels to Fukuoka where she was born. Her classmate Satoi Hogari accompanies her.

Los trabajadores de las instalaciones de Fukushima Daiichi en Japón arriesgan su vida a diario permaneciendo en la central nuclear para evitar su desintegración total después de que la región haya sido totalmente devastada por un terremoto y un posterior tsunami en 2011.

Seiichi is the owner of a flower shop. He enjoys his peaceful single life. Kiho runs the ramen restaurant left to her by her father, but she's thinking of closing it.

Masaru y Yukiko han estado casados durante 44 años. Tienen tres hijos que viven independientemente de ellos. Masaru y Yukiko disfrutan de sus días tranquilos, pero, un día, Yukiko le dice a su hija Naoko que quiere divorciarse de Masaru.

A seventy-year-old retired school headmaster informs his wife and daughters that he has Alzheimer’s disease. They are all concerned, but react differently due to their individual situations. The family watches as the husband and father regresses due to the disease and loses his memory. Interestingly, there are sparkling moments of his life of which the man will not let go.

Shiori is a star university student with an incredible palate for wine who dreams of studying winemaking in France. However, to her dismay she is assigned to a rural sake brewery for her internship. To make matters worse, upon arrival she discovers that the brewery owners don’t exactly want her around. However, as it becomes clear that Shiori will be sticking around, she tries to make the best of things and begins to pitch in at the brewery, perhaps even warming up to the idea of drinking sake. And when the brewery owner falls gravely ill, and his upstart son Kanji is forced to take the lead, Shiori may provide the spark that can save the brewery and change her own life in the process..

Tsugumi Kawana trabaja en una compañía de diseño interior. Conoce a Itsuki Ayukawa, su primer amor.

Baijaku Nakamura takes the lead in a film where he has to dodge pursuit from a hostile gang whilst also helping out a family of innocent people who run a noodle store. More importantly, this was one of Ren Osugi’s last films.

Masuda, un aspirante a periodista, está trabajando en una fábrica y sospecha que un compañero de trabajo es un asesino convicto. Piensa que un artículo debidamente escrito sobre él podría permitirle regresar al mundo del periodismo pero también podría reabrir las cicatrices de su propio pasado.

La historia gira en torno a Ryo quien al enterarse de que Yuri la mujer que amaba desaparece y al poco rato se entera de que falleció, pero antes de que ella muriera Yuri le dice que alguien exactamente igual a ella cómo quién dice un doppelganger Yuri le cuenta que puede y que su doble sea más guapa y más inteligente al final le dice que se encuentra en Hokkaido.

Kei Omori did not have anything he wanted to do with his life. Without any specific reasons, he enrolled in a special nursing school. After his graduation, he begins work at a small-size multi-functional facility as a care worker. He has a hard time communicating with the elderly people with dementia. For the first time, he is placed in charge of 79-year-old Keiko Hoshikawa who has dementia. With the help of the staff and trial-and-error, he develops a relationship with Keiko.

Misako (Ayame Misaki) es una apasionada guionista de películas para invidentes. Su meticulosidad al transcribir el lenguaje visual al escrito, esforzándose por encontrar la palabra perfecta para cada color, gesto o textura, la hacen olvidarse de algo tan importante como los sentimientos. En una proyección cinematográfica conoce a Masaya (Masatoshi Nagase), un fotógrafo que está perdiendo la vista lentamente. Misako pronto descubrirá las fotografías de Masaya, que la transportarán a algunos recuerdos de su pasado. Juntos aprenderán a ver de manera resplandeciente el mundo que antes era invisible a sus ojos.

In 1946, on a fictional island called Gokumon-tou, located in the Inner Sea of Seto, the famous detective Kindaichi intended to pass his convalescence after the invitation of his war buddy Kitou Chimata, the successor son of the powerful clan of the Kitou Family. But Kindaichi arrives alone, bringing the bad news of Chimata's death. However, the truth is that Kindaichi is not on the island to recover. Before Chimata died, she uttered the words: "My sisters will be killed!" Indeed, as the three sisters are murdered one by one in horrible and strange ways, Kindaichi desperately tries to find the culprit and in the process discovers the intrigues of the family, secrets, island mentality, discrimination, and eccentricities, With the backdrop of the turbulent postwar period.

Shiori Higuchi works at a town hall in Yakushima Island. She is in charge of a plan to hold a concert for the famous Tokyo Wind Orchestra. 10 members of the orchestra from Tokyo arrive on Yakushima Island, but they are not from the famous Tokyo Wind Orchestra.

Detective Ryoko Kozuki receives a demotion after having an affair with a superior. She succeeds in arresting a rapist in an undercover operation that puts her at risk. Her achievement immediately becomes the talk of the precinct, but no one approaches her because of her past. Ryoko is determined to bring criminals to justice. She takes on “The Prime Ministerial Candidate Snipe Case” which took place 15 years earlier.

A married woman obsesses over a hairstylist she becomes involved with.

A 21-year-old university student lost her boyfriend in a sudden accident and she can't get over him, but she begins to change thanks to her family and her friend Takumi, who shares a very similar past with her.

Sara, es una joven actriz, capaz de llevar el peso de un papel protagonista en una obra de teatro. Rápidamente, se da cuenta que algo o alguien quiere acabar con la producción a toda costa, algo que la pondrá seriamente en peligro.

In the year 1868, three young men join the elite Shogitai division of the Shogunate. The Shogitai fights to the end and opposes the dismantling of the feudal military dictatorship known as the Bakufu system.

Kota and Yoko have known each other for 17 years. They finally get married and Yoko becomes pregnant. During her pregnancy, Yoko feels ill and gets a checkup. She learns that she has terminal cancer. Yoko is able to give birth and they try to smile everyday until her very last day.

A 3rd year transfer student from a Tokyo middle school, was emotionally hurt in the soft tennis club she belonged to at her previous school. Unaware of this, Tamako pesters Aki to teach her soft tennis. Together, they go about creating a court on the campus of a closed-down school.

The intertwined love story of four young people on Christmas night.

El duelo entre Kenshin Himura y el maligno Shishio Makoto sigue sin resolverse. El conflicto entre los dos guerreros decidirá el destino de Japón, y pondrá un bombástico punto final a la memorable adaptación cinematográfica del manga de Nobuhiro Watsuki.

Tras los acontecimientos relatados en “Kenshin, el guerrero samurai”, Kenshin Himura vive retirado, fiel a su juramento de no volver a empuñar la espada; pero la aparición de un misterioso villano que amenaza con derrocar al gobierno hará que el protagonista replantee su postura. Rurôni Kenshin: Kyoto taika-hen es el primer segmento del espectacular díptico que concluirá las aventuras del guerrero.

When his father flees from debt, carefree college student Osamu sees his life turn upside-down. Expelled from school and evicted from his apartment, he becomes one of Japan’s many ‘net cafe refugees’, barely scraping by each day with temporary and part-time work. Even though he’s still in Tokyo, his circumstances drive him to see and experience his home city in new ways. Trying to survive, Osamu gradually acquaints himself with the ‘invisible’ spaces occupied by the wanderers and homeless of Tokyo… people just like himself.

The story, set in the heady post-war 50s into the early 60s , revolves around a love triangle between Tomoko, long playing the mistress to married older writer Shitto and the new stud who comes into her life, Ryota Kinoshita. Tomoko is sick and tired of her relationship with writer Shingo, who is married and has children. Shingo is a talented writer, but has yet to be recognized by the public. Tomoko then enters into a sexual relationship with younger man Ryota Kinoshita, but Tomoko is not satisfied.

The Arab-Israeli sushi chef Elzober can finally fulfill his dream: to buy a brand new black Legacy. But the day after the purchase the car is stolen.

Osaka Love & Soul (TV film) Drama 2010, 75 min

Ueto Aya's is Juri Tatematsu. She's blind like her husband. They give birth to a child, despite fears and opposition from their parents. Raising the child, Juri keeps pushing herself towards her dream of becoming a professional musician. She made her dream come true.

In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.

A Japanese company is being targeted by a Chinese financial group that takes advantage of weak and struggling firms - in other words, a vulture. A Japanese financier/former vulture Masahiko Washizu is recruited to fight the threat.

A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovered that he has got terminal lung cancer and will die within half a year. He declines any treatment and decides to go to see some people he has not met for years, to write farewell letters to his family, relatives and friends...

A story of a 16-year old girl who comes to Tokyo aspiring to be an actress.

Treinta y cinco años atrás, un profesor de universidad mata a once personas en un hotel y lo graba en vídeo. En la actualidad, un director de cine decide filmar una película sobre lo acontecido y para ello contrata a la reconocida actriz Sugiura Nagisa. Las pesadillas sobre lo ocurrido en el pasado serán sólo el inicio de una serie de inquietantes acontecimientos.

Ichigo no Kakera es la historia de Ichigo Nekoda (Aki Kajiwara) una artista de manga que Fue conocida 12 años atras por su Shojo manga Cherry Road.

Japón, siglo XIX. El declive de la casta guerrera de los Samurai y de los Shogun ha hecho mella en el pequeño feudo de Unasaka, situado en la costa del noroeste del país. El samurai Yaichiro Hazama se marcha a la lejana ciudad de Edo para hacerse cargo de un puesto muy importante de la organización del clan, mientras sus amigos samuráis, Munezo y Samon, vuelven al lugar en el que Munezo nació y creció. A pesar de su modesto sueldo consiguen vivir una vida placentera en la casa de la madre de Munezo junto con la hermana pequeña de éste y la hija de un vecino que es granjero, llamada Kie, que trabaja en la casa como empleada doméstica y espera poder conseguir marido. Durante los tres años siguientes fallece la madre de Munezo, Samon se casa con la hermana de Munezo, y Kie se casa con el hijo de una familia acomodada de mercaderes, los Iseya.

Seigo Yoshioka (Kenji Sakaguchi) is a teacher that became mute after a kendo accident. He feels lost after the accident and eventually decides to teach again on a small island where his mother was born. The children there on the island quickly name him "Kikansha Sensei" (Teacher Locomotive) after learning he is mute. The parents on the island are mostly hostile to Seigo Yoshioka, believing he is incapable of teaching their children. But with Seigo Yoshioka's determination and kindness, a strong bond develops between the students and the mute teacher, which then changes the parents' opinions of Seigo Yoshioka. Suddenly, tragedy then strikes ...

Yuichiro is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs over him like a pall as he wanders Japan's S&M clubs. But his younger brother claims to be able to sense their sister with his "antenna".

One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and kill the killer ..... and it escalates!

In her brother's apartment where he died, Yuki finds a vacuum cleaner with its cord still hooked up to the outlet. She discovers that the circumstances surrounding her brother's supposed suicide are sketchy at best, yet no one has any answers. When she starts having hallucinations involving his ghost, however, she seeks some psychological help, eventually uncovering some things that she may have wished she'd left covered.

A pesar de lo que el título pueda sugerir y a riesgo de decepcionar a algunos, Platonic Sex no es una película de sexo. Es la historia de la joven Aoi Iijima (que interpreta la actriz Saki Kagami), que a sus diecisiete años siente que su vida no tiene sentido y quiere suicidarse. La salva un mensaje que llega a su móvil: un mensaje de alguien llamado Toshi que la felicita por su cumpleaños y le agradece el haber nacido.

The fourth chapter in the Love Cinema series, is a story of a cloistered and obsessive character who is confining and closed. When many suicides occur in an apartment building the police are by to question a female resident.

Galford viaja a Japón para advertir a Haohmaru sobre una presencia maligna que puede romper el equilibrio. Shiki consigue escapar de Yuga, el poderoso hechicero demoníaco, y es encontrada por Nakoruru; pero es considerada una amenaza ya que fue poseída anteriormente por Yuga. En medio de toda esta situación aparece Asura y busca a Shiki para asesinarla, pero antes deberá enfrentarse a Nakoruru y Haohmaru.