Toshi Shioya
Nacimiento : 1956-08-05, Usuki, Ōita Prefecture, Japan
Muerte : 2013-06-05
Director
Kinjiro, an official with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, is a good-natured fellow who goes around the country helping farm families. At his new appointment in Usuki City, Oita Prefecture, he visits a tea-growing family he has known for a long time. There, he finds the family head's granddaughter Minori, who lost her job in Tokyo and has just returned home.
Director
Kenzaburo, de 78 años, fue una vez trompetista de una legendaria banda de jazz. Durante los últimos 50 años, Kenzaburo ha estado internado en un hospital debido a que padecía la enfermedad de Hansen. Ahora, Kenzaburo se propone cumplir una promesa de 50 años que hizo a sus antiguos compañeros de banda. El nieto de Kenzaburo de 21 años, que también toca la trompeta, sigue a su abuelo en su increíble viaje.
Director
Drama about a young doctor.
Director
On April 9, 2000, Suzuki Kyoko receives a phone call from the police. She learns that her 19-year-old son and his friend were killed by a drunk driver while walking along a bridge in Zama. Suzuki Kyoko lost her husband to cancer five years earlier and her world crashes down. The drunk driver was given the maximum sentence at the time 5 1/2 years. Suzuki Kyoko then spearheads a movement to increase the penalty for reckless driving. She also enrolls at Waseda University where her son died just a week after his entrance ceremony. Suzuki Kyoko also starts an exhibit to honor the victims of reckless driving.
Director
A school brass band gets a new member.
War between North Korea and Japan
Hayakawa
Writer
Director
Ikegami kenshi-i
Un par de policías de Tokyo están investigando un espantoso asesinato: después de matar a la víctima, el asesino abrió el cráneo y guisó su cerebro. A medida que tratan de localizar al asesino, descubren que, literalmente, todo el mundo es sospechoso. ¿Van a llevar el terror a su fin, o formarán parte de él?
Producer
A foreign university student tries to fit in in Kyoto by reading books to the blind and finds himself falling in love.
Assistant Professor
A foreign university student tries to fit in in Kyoto by reading books to the blind and finds himself falling in love.
Camping on the streets of Tokyo, Michio meets Chihiro, a dancer, whom he makes fun of at first, but later befriends. Together they join a team of aspiring dancers and aim to make their professional debut. Michio and Chihiro gradually develop feelings for each other but, triggered by jealousy, Michio's old friends try to come in between them.
Near-death experience lecturer
A young foot soldier in the yakuza seeks revenge when his prostitute girlfriend dies after a session with a high-ranking Japanese politician with a taste for torture. He sets out on a 'kamikaze' mission to kill his bosses and the politician; along the way, he acquires the aid of a taxi driver who has recently returned to Japan after living in South America for several decades and is struggling to cope with poverty and the prejudices of native-born Japanese.
Master
A look a the lives of two sex workers in Tokyo: Rei, who works as an S&M dominatrix, and Ayumi, in the more straightforward profession of call girl. In addition to their working life, the film also looks at their private lives. Rei is acting in an amateur theatre company (along with the receptionist from Ayumi's escort service), while Ayumi is living with her student-boyfriend as he struggles to finally get accepted to college.
El joven noble Asano decide combatir a Kira, un viejo señor feudal que ha logrado su posición mediante actos injustos y corruptos. Con este fin, Asano se niega a pagar los tributos que Kira le reclama. Al conocer la decisión, Kira pone en marcha un plan para humillarle, empujando a Asano al harakiri (seppuku). Los samuráis que sirvieron a Asano, ahora marginados ronin, prepararán la venganza.
Yoji Nishimura
Jack Elliot es un jugador de béisbol que llega a Japón para jugar en el equipo de Los Dragones cedido por los Yankees de Nueva York. Empieza así una nueva etapa de su vida que, al principio, no le resultará sencilla, pues, además de desconocer el idioma y las costumbres del país, tiene un entrenador muy autoritario que no está dispuesto a tolerar las malas costumbres que Jack se ha traído de Estados Unidos.
Lt. Tanaka
Año 1945. Poco después de finalizar la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un fiscal del ejército australiano tiene que juzgar a los responsables japoneses del campo de concentración en la isla de Ambon, en Indonesia, en la que fueron ejecutados cientos de prisioneros de guerra australianos. (FILMAFFINITY)
