Motokichi Hasegawa

LOVERS' KISS (ラヴァーズ・キス?) is a 2003 Japanese romance movie based on a manga by Akimi Yoshida. This is a youth movie of six teenagers (three boys and three girls) whom it is focused on, taking place in Kamakura.

Naomi Shimizu is a young career woman working for Enrico Dandolo, an Italian fashion house. That is until one day the company declares bankruptcy. Accustomed to living in luxury she tries to make a run for it with the last remaining company asset, a red Alpha Romeo sports car. Unfortunately she recklessly collides with an bicycle messenger. Lacking any funds to pay for a settlement, she end up having to work as a bicycle messenger.

A scientist desperately wanting to prove that mermaids exist is ostracized from the scientific community in Japan. He settles down in Australia steadfast on his hypothesis. When a Japanese student visits him in Australia with strange questions about mermaids, how the young man survived in the ocean, and why he doesn't remember anything.

Maiko is a recently widowed young woman travelling to Bali to distract herself from the loss of her husband, Esau. At the airport she meets Kioko, who gives her a dagger and a photo of a woman. She tells Maiko she must find the woman, Shireni, in Bali and convince her to return to Japan, or she must use the dagger to kill her. Soon after her arrival in Bali she meets Shireni and is invited to stay with her. Quickly Maiko finds herself trapped on Shirini's island paradise, by her own confusion and her developing love for Shireni. She discovers Shireni to be immortal, a former spirit medium whose only goal is to find pleasure, body and soul.

As famous photographer, Yuta Suzumori's (Tatsuya Fuji) health is worsening he tells a childhood story of when he saw a kappa in his hometown village of Kitagawa.

A close look at the inner workings of Japan's political underbelly.

The year is 1982, and the place is Shōnan in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. A group of passionate young people operate a beach radio station for the local community.

Fumio Yano is an unassuming young businessman in the ski wear line. His own skiing ability is close to professional level, and he assists a former world champion, Tayama, on the sales team. Fumio meets and falls in love with Yu, a young secretary, but initially finds it hard to express his true feelings for her. A St Valentine's Day fashion show provides an unexpected backdrop for crisis resolution, and a mad scramble ensues to beat the clock and make it to a neighboring ski resort in time for the press and photographers. A pack of chocolate is a symbol of true love...

The story revolves around a hardcore Onyanko Club fanatic who decides he wants to kill the girls to prevent the young, cute idols from getting old and married - in a sense, to preserve their youth for eternity.

Based on the true story of a Japanese young man that crossed the American continent by roller skating.

Set at the height of the Japanese student rebellion in 1968, the film tells the story of the friendship between two very different men—a fortyish film maniac who spends nearly all his time at the movies and a 19-year-old going through the final rites of passage from adolescence to adulthood.

A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.

En esta intrincada película, se explora la naturaleza de las actrices y sus métodos de actuación. Las vidas de tres actrices son completamente desnudadas, a través de escenas de sus vidas sacadas de entrevistas a cada una de ellas. Todas han sufrido experiencias traumáticas que contribuyeron en la exploración de sus trabajos dramáticas. Una de ellas fue violada por su profesor, otra tuvo un padrastro que abusó de ella, y la tercera experimentó una parálisis de sus cuerdas vocales por una causa desconocida.

Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man, pretending to be the father, comes to get her back; Ayu keeps telling him that Rikiya and Nanako are her parents. Through this disruption, Rikiya suddenly starts remembering his youth as a revolutionary.

Eros y Masacre es la biografía del rebelde socialista de principios del siglo XX Sakae Osugi, y de las tres mujeres que compartieron su vida: Hori Yasuko, su mujer; su segunda amante, la celosa Itsuko Masaoka, una militante feminista; y Noe Ito, su tercera amante, una importante activista social y novelista. Paralelamente a la historia de Osugi, la película sigue las aventuras sub rumbo de dos estudiantes radicales de los 60: la ninfómana Eiko y el impotente y pirómano Wada, explorando teorías políticas e ideas sobre el amor libre mantenidas por Osugi. Fantasean sobre la Era Taisho, y Yoshida alterna y mezcla continuamente la línea entre la fantasía y la realidad hasta que las dos líneas argumentales se entremezclan. Yoshida, como su contemporáneo Godard, acepta que una película es un artificio y juega con el espacio y el tiempo.

A spontaneous romance blooms between Kawamura, a professor touring Europe, and Naoko, a married woman living in Paris, scarred by the Nagasaki atomic bombings. The two protagonists travel around Europe trying to find themselves.

Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the love to his mother.