Masatoshi Saito

Una escritora de novelas románticas en sus 50's, Matsumura Ryoko, se enamora de un chico mucho más joven. Sin embargo, su romance está condenado, porque ella tiene Alzheimer.

Aki is an unsuccessful 29-year-old actress who eventually became a magician's assistant. While pretending to be hypnotised on the stage, Aki finds the boundary between reality and illusion becoming increasingly vague. For Aki, the only beautiful memory she has was the time spent with her lover Kaito.

Natsume Mochizuki trabaja como modelo adolescente en Tokio, pero se entera de que tiene que mudarse a la ciudad natal de su padre, Ukigumo. Ella está en una situación desesperada porque no puede hacer las cosas que quiere hacer en Ukigumo. Un día, conoce a Koichiro Hasegawa. Él es el sucesor de la familia Hasegawa. Su familia es rica y es respetado en la zona. Natsume Mochizuki y Koichiro Hasegawa se sienten atraídos el uno al otro, pero algo cambia su destino.

A singular deadpan comedy, The Passion tells a story of a young woman raised in a convent named Frances-ko (Mayuko Iwasa), after Saint Francesco. Distressed by not knowing about love and sex, she calls out for a sign from above, but instead hears a voice from below. A human-faced growth speaks to her from between her legs, constantly berating her, calling out "Woman, you are worthless!" Mr. Koga, as she names it, continues the verbal abuse, yet Frances-ko somehow adapts, forming an adversarial yet symbiotic relationship. This bizarre film, based on Kaoruko Himeno's acclaimed 1997 novel of the same name, is skillfully directed by Ryoko Yoshida, lensed by veteran cinematographer Akiko Ashizawa, grounded by Iwasa's show-stopping performance and enlivened by the hilarious Kanji Furutachi, who lends his voice to the chauvinistic Koga. The soundtrack boasts an unmissable eclectic score by legendary experimental musician and composer Otomo Yoshihide.

A humorous wedding story fueled by a rather no-good father and son, disguised as the old and new “good guys.” The father Nobuo, and his son Tamio, are unable to mature, unable to break the parent-child roles, have no sense of responsibility, and keep holding on to the past. The pair is overwhelmed by all the colorful characters around them telling them what to do. They go to strenuous and humorous efforts to make Tamio’s wedding an event to remember.

A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the schools brass band.

Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They become fascinated with a deadly jellyfish.

As the film begins, Takao (Akira Terao) and Michiko (Kanako Higuchi) have already pulled up their Tokyo roots and moved to a village that is Takao's ancestral home. They visit a thatched cottage that serves as a memorial shrine (amidado) for the village dead and chat with the attendant, the spry 96-year-old Oume (Tanie Kitabayashi). Together they admire the view -- from an inspiring distance. Oume, it turns out, is a kind of sage, whose thoughts and observations are a popular feature in a column in a local newsletter. Her amanuensis is a mute, sweetly smiling young woman named Sayuri (Manami Konishi), who is as devoted to Oume as Oume is to the souls of her beloved dead.

During a quest to find a Taiwanese father's grave, disturbing memories of child abuse are aroused.

1945, vísperas de la rendición japonesa. En medio de una tensa atmósfera de guerra, el Doctor Akagi, médico de un pueblo pesquero en una de las islas japonesas, está consternado por la cantidad de personas que caen afectadas de hepatitis, primera causa de muerte en el desnutrido país. Ante esta grave situación decide implicarse para salvar su integridad profesional. Se alía con sus viejos colegas; un monje que ha colgado los hábitos, un cirujano nihilista adicto a la morfina y una mujer, formando así un grupo al margen de la sociedad militar japonesa

Biwako is a vain, middle-aged actress who witnesses a brutal murder. Realizing that the very public life of the woman makes their sole witness vulnerable to the killers, the police assign two officers to safeguard her until the trial. In the interim, the lives of Biwako and everyone around her are changed in unexpected ways.

Failing supermarket manager Goro hires the energetic Hanako, his old classmate, to help him compete with a new, rival business in town. Soon, Hanako's ideas and energy completely revitalize the store – but not without ruffling some feathers and sparking some romance along the way.

Melodrama about the life of a mentally handicapped young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to Australia on a business trip.

The Rinkaiji family, by all appearances, is a well-to-do Japanese family. The father, Nariyuki, works in an elite corporation, which gives his wife Yoshiko status in their suburban neighborhood. But the daughter Sugina, who herself has secretly stopped going to school because she is being bullied. One day, they discover that Nariyuki has quit his job. As Nariyuki decides to find a new job along with Sugina, Yoshiko, a firm believer in a life based on the company, soon finds her world falling apart.

A school bus driver's life is irrevocably altered when his young son is kidnapped and murdered.

A Korean taxi-driver interacts both humorously and tragically with his customers and employers in '90s Tokyo.

Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, a girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity.

An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so they can get a contract for a meeting of important foreign officials.

At an all-girls school, a group of girls prepare for a stage performance of Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard".

Reflejo de la vida cotidiana japonesa desde el fabuloso mundo de una Geisha, mujer que tradicionalmente trae suerte a los hombres. (FILMAFFINITY)

La lluvia negra la constituyen las particulas radiactivas procedentes de la explosión de las bombas que Estados Unidos lanzó sobre Hiroshima y Nagasaki. Basada en una famosa novela de Masuji Ibuse sobre la devastación causada por la bomba atómica, "Lluvia negra" relata las consecuencias de la explosión atómica en Hiroshima. La película se centra en la historia de una joven, Yasuko, que se vio sorprendida por esta lluvia radioactiva que cayó en los alrededores de la tristemente célebre ciudad. Las posibles consecuencias de su contacto con la radiación han dado lugar a un sinfín de habladurías entre los pretendientes de la joven: ¿estará enferma?, ¿podrá tener hijos? Su familia rememora aquellos días aciagos, tratando de conjurar el peligro que la acecha.

La lluvia negra la constituyen las particulas radiactivas procedentes de la explosión de las bombas que Estados Unidos lanzó sobre Hiroshima y Nagasaki. Basada en una famosa novela de Masuji Ibuse sobre la devastación causada por la bomba atómica, "Lluvia negra" relata las consecuencias de la explosión atómica en Hiroshima. La película se centra en la historia de una joven, Yasuko, que se vio sorprendida por esta lluvia radioactiva que cayó en los alrededores de la tristemente célebre ciudad. Las posibles consecuencias de su contacto con la radiación han dado lugar a un sinfín de habladurías entre los pretendientes de la joven: ¿estará enferma?, ¿podrá tener hijos? Su familia rememora aquellos días aciagos, tratando de conjurar el peligro que la acecha.

Un grupo de jóvenes reporteros se dirigen hacia una mansión abandonada en el medio del bosque, con la intención de hacer un reportaje acerca de unos antiguos cuadros pintados por el difunto Mamiya Ichiro. La casa está aparentemente abandonada. Sin embargo, una vez que entren, el fantasma de Mamiya les impedirá el escape...

Un camionero y su compañero prueban la sopa de una viuda, y al ser de las peores que han probado nunca, la cocinera viuda les pide ayuda para mejorar en la elaboración de la sopa. Durante el proceso surgirá entre ellos el encariñamiento con la dulce viuda. Aclamada comedia japonesa que emula el formato de western (alguien acude al rescate de una viuda que necesita ayuda) y con un toque curioso alrededor del disfrute de la comida. Una cinta que tuvo un notable éxito internacional en su día. El director Itami era un presentador de televisión reconvertido en realizador.