Shosuke Tanihara

Iwane Sakazaki returns to his homeland and gets caught in the middle of an incident that results in the tragic death of two of his best friends from childhood. He decides to leave his domain, parting with his fiancée Nao, and becomes a vagrant masterless samurai with nothing more to lose. Iwane drifts to Edo, filleting eels during the day and working as a bodyguard at night for Imazuya, a reputable money exchanger. He gradually wins the trust of the people around him because of his mellow nature, the chivalrous way he treats everyone with courtesy, and his skills of swords. One day, he learns that Imazuya is being targeted in a conspiracy to sabotage a new monetary system implemented by the government, and Iwane decides to protect the people who have given him support.

Nanami Ishikawa works as an editor at a publishing company. She travels Hiroshima to go after her father Asahi who left home. During her visit to Hiroshima, she learns about the tragic story of Asahi's older sister Minami Hirano. When Minami Hirano was 13 years old, she was exposed to radiation by an atomic bomb.

La historia empieza cuando los padres de Miki le comunican que van a divorciarse. Han conocido a otro matrimonio, el amor ha surgido entre ellos y han decidido intercambiar de pareja. Pero para que no se diga que no piensan en su hija, han tomado la decisión de vivir todos juntos en la misma casa: las dos nuevas parejas, Miki… y el guapísimo hijo adolescente de los Matsuura, Yuu.

Following of the Detective Katherine shown on September 2015.

A sequel to "The Pierrot Prays to the Moon", which won the "Gold Medal Prize" at the Chicago International Film Festival Television Awards. A beautiful village in the mountains. Mayu is a wife, a mother and a daughter-in-law. While taking care of her husband and son, she is faced with despair every day as she visits her mother-in-law with a long-term illness. Amidst all this, she meets a man from Tokyo by coincidence and falls in love with him. A secret and illicit love where they understood each other's hearts. For Mayu, this love was captivating, a love that is one of a kind. In the midst of this love, time passes and after several years, it had brought her a whole new meaning to life. This is even more so being the forbidden kind of love. When the man invited Mayu to return to Tokyo with him, she must decide whether to stay in her hometown or abandon her home and follow him.

Katherine Turner initially accompanied her father, Vice President of the United States, on his official trip to Japan but decided to stay longer to study the Japanese art of flower arrangement for her business back in the States. Yukio Hamaguchi, Minister of Foreign Affairs and also a very good friend of Katherine’s father, assigns his nephew Ichiro to escort Katherine during her stay. Ichiro is halfhearted at first but when Katherine’s old friend Maiko becomes the victim of a murder case, Katherine and Ichiro start to reveal their talent as brilliant detectives by untangling clues and solving the case together.

At a small station in a very small town somewhere in Japan, a woman with eyes as beautiful as the sky, sits at a bench. A man comes to the same station to get a train back to the city, and here he meets this beautiful lady but finds that she is blind. This movie tells the fantasy love story of a day where a man and woman meet accidentally in a small town.

One day, Mana Aida receives a wedding dress from her mother and grandmother that they had worn in the past. While thinking about who she would wear this beside someday, a mysterious man named Marsh appears, and Mana is thrown back into the past. She was happy to see her grandmother she loved and her old dog Maro, but she then realizes that Alice and Rikka aren't there because memories have been altered. In order to save precious memories, the future, dreams and hope, Mana transforms into Cure Heart.

Shizuru Tamai (Takako Tokiwa) lives in a small mountain town in rural Japan with her mother and grandmother. Her grandmother is partially unable to move, and Shizuru has to care for her with her mother, who tries to keep Shizuru shackled at every opportunity. Shizuru’s days are filled with endless monotony. She works as a receptionist at her former classmate’s hospital, and one day goes to buy picture books for the waiting room. It’s then that she recalls a book from her childhood ‘The Pierrot Prays to the Moon’. Wanting to read the book again, Shizuru finds it on an online auction site. Once it finally arrives and she begins to read it, a small slip of paper gently falls from its pages. On the paper are what appear to be instructions for a recipe. The recipe prompts Shizuru to contact Tobuse (Shosuke Tanihara), the man who sent her the book.

Every day, people would queue for over two hours for a bowl of ramen. What’s the celebrated chef’s secret ingredient? There is no secret ingredient. In fact, as most fans of Taishoken believe, it’s the charisma of owner Kazuo Yamagishi that attracted people from all around Japan to his modest shop. His personality and love for his craft, combined with a precise mélange of flavours, combined to create perfection in each ramen bowl. This heart-warming documentary is not just for noodle fans, but for anyone who loves to be inspired by passionate people.

Young Atsuko Kagami comes into possession of a magical mirror that lets her transform into anything she wishes. Atsuko Kagami then attempts to save a company which is about to be sold by using her transformation abilities. She also falls in love as a 22-year-old college student.

Akane está decidida a proteger la longevidad del dojo Tendo. Sin embargo, un día su padre, Soun de repente declara que el sucesor del dojo debe ser de sexo masculino. Esto deja fuera a Akane, Ranma el prometido de Akane, que sufre de una maldición que le convierte en una chica cada vez que se salpica con agua fría. Con el fin de eliminar la maldición y heredar el dojo, Ranma busca una fuente termal en secreto, pero se encuentra con un misterioso enemigo.

Police Officer Kankichi Ryotsu (Shingo Katori) is back at the Kameari Park Polic Box. Kankichi Ryotsu usually means to do well, but more often than not he ends up causing all kinds of trouble. Like on his way to work he away when he is asked to pay up by a shop owner or cheats an elementary school student. Ryotsu's co-workers Reiko Catherine Akimoto (Karina) and Keiichi Nagakawa (Mokomichi Hayami) have had about all they can take from Kankichi and his boss Ohara (Masato Ibu) is constantly berating him.

The film stars Seishiro Kato as Rantaro who is sent to a ninja training school by his parents. During the summer, their teacher is invaded by a group of rival ninjas culminating in a race to ring a bell on top of a mountain.

Un héroe debe elegir: ¿el poder de los ideales... o el valor de la verdad? Cuando Ash y sus amigos toman parte en un torneo en el Pueblo Eindoak, encuentran al Pokémon singular Victini, que acabará por convertirse en su nuevo amigo. Sin embargo, ¡el desastre no tarda en llegar cuando Damon, un desacertado trotamundos, se apodera de Victini, al que pretende utilizar para sus propios fifi nes! ¿Podrá Ash demostrar su madera de héroe y conseguir la ayuda del legendario Reshiram (o de Zekrom) para rescatar a Victini y salvar al Pueblo Eindoak? Dos leyendas... ¡y dos versiones de la historia! Conoce ambas en las películas Negro: Victini y Reshiram y Blanco: Victini y Zekrom. ¡El doble de aventuras Pokémon!

Un héroe debe elegir: ¿el poder de los ideales... o el valor de la verdad? Cuando Ash y sus amigos toman parte en un torneo en el Pueblo Eindoak, encuentran al Pokémon singular Victini, que acabará por convertirse en su nuevo amigo. Sin embargo, ¡el desastre no tarda en llegar cuando Damon, un desacertado trotamundos, se apodera de Victini, al que pretende utilizar para sus propios fifi nes! ¿Podrá Ash demostrar su madera de héroe y conseguir la ayuda del legendario Reshiram (o de Zekrom) para rescatar a Victini y salvar al Pueblo Eindoak? Dos leyendas... ¡y dos versiones de la historia! Conoce ambas en las películas Negro: Victini y Reshiram y Blanco: Victini y Zekrom. ¡El doble de aventuras Pokémon!

While the Japanese government is trying to crack down on international crime organizations' money laundering in tax havens, the Chief of Police's son is found dead in a hotel in France.

Sci-fi writer Sakutaro (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and bank employee Setsuko (Yuko Takeuchi) met at as high school freshmen during their summer vacation. Since that time, the couple has always been together and eventually married.One day, Setsuko complains of a stomach ache and is hospitalized. Sakutaro then learns that his wife has colon cancer. Sakutaro takes the advice from his doctor that laughter helps the immune system and proceeds to write a short story for his wife every day. At first, Setsuko was expected to live for only 1 more year, but she lived for 5 more years and Sakutaro eventually wrote 1,778 short stories for his wife.

This is based on a collection of short stories by Keigo Higashino. A membership-based investigation agency dedicated to VIP will usually lead the case to a quick and calm resolution. Members are only VIPs in the political and business world. Tow people are in charge of it, a man in his mid-30s who has a deeply carved face away from the Japanese and a beautiful woman who seems to be in his late 20s. She works as an assistant to the man, and has extraordinary memory. Their group is nicknamed the Detective Club by the owners who are VIP members.

Nodame and Chiaki mutually decide that it would be for the best if they parted ways for a while so Nodame can practice for an upcoming competition. However, when things don’t go her way, she gets impatient and depressed. While Nodame is away, Chiaki’s former pianist Rui Son returns to take her place. To make matters worse, Rui and Chiaki are set to play the song Nodame dreams of playing with Chiaki herself: Ravel’s “Concerto in G Minor”.

Based on a short story by Seichi Matsumoto from 1956 and remake from the 1957 movie of the same name, the story is about an actor who has the opportunity to become a success but 9 years earlier, he had killed a woman with whom he was involved and there was an eyewitness to the murder.

Chiaki is an aspiring conductor who faces the challenge of leading an orchestra which is made up of substitutes. Nodame gives her support to her beloved as she works hard towards achieving her dream to pass a promotion exam at their music conservatory. Will Chiaki be able to revive a broken down orchestra and launch his musical career? What will become of Nodame and Chiaki's relationship?

La estudiante de secundaria Río, de 17 años de edad, es siempre el centro de atención debido a su belleza. Sin embargo, a Río nunca le ha importado nadie más que ella misma debido a su traumático pasado. Sus amigos y novios sólo existen para que pueda usarlos para sus ganancias ya que sólo está interesada en la consecución de dinero. Pero un día conoce a Ozawa Kouki, un profesor universitario de 32 años, y se enamorará por primera vez.

30 year old Yoko Sasaki (Arisa Mizuki) works diligently at a publishing company. She then receives the unexpected news that she is pregnant. Having now to chose between having a baby and or her career.

Takuro (Tsukaji Muga) es dueño de un restaurante donde es la estrella de la cocina gracias a sus habilidades culinarias heredadas de su madre, pero su apariencia hace que las chicas huyan de él. Cuando asiste a una tienda para comprar un traje con el cual pueda asistir a la boda de sus mejores amigos, Takuro adquiere un traje que mágicamente lo transforma en alguien alto y muy guapo (Tanihara Shosuke). Y es cuando la vida cambia para Takuro, teniendo el mundo a sus pies y convirtiéndose en el modelo más deseado a los ojos de las mujeres.

En un mundo en el que al fin se ha instaurado la paz, la única manera de preservarla es mantener una guerra televisada. Un espectáculo cuyos protagonistas son los "Kildren", jóvenes nacidos y entrenados para combatir a bordo de sus aviones, y para morir jóvenes.

A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a mysterious hitman — an assassin the hustler has no idea how to contact. Instead, he hires an actor to play the role, though the thespian has no idea what he's getting into.

A man’s body is found in the suburbs of Tokyo. The dead man was hit by a car and his head beaten by the reckless driver after the accident. The dead man had a wife named Noriko. She likes fancy things and she has a lover named Tsukada. It's also learned that the dead man was insured for 300 million yen. The media and the public look at Noriko and her boyfriend Tsukada with suspicion, but they have perfect alibis. Then, Detective Hibiki, who is in charge of the case, and Private Detective Kono become involved in a series of mysterious murder cases.

Ichitaro's adventure goes on. He starts to feel earthquakes, which no-one else does, and a voice telling to kill Ichitaro. His grandma gives him one flower's seeds and also tells Ichitaro's mother to let him go to Hakone. Mother approves it and Ichitaro takes up a trip to Hakone with Matsunosuke, Hakutaku and Sasuke, but only two of them arrive to Hakone, where earth trembles even more and people are more vulgar.

Shizuka Kamei is a young high school student whose family is in deep debt since the disappearance of her father. After being expelled from her high school because of her money problems, she finds a part-time job: here she is an assistant to a lawyer, Nonaka Hiromu, who fantasizes about the uniforms of high school girls.

Es el año 2077, ya han pasado diez años desde que Japón decidiera salirse de las Naciones Unidas para aislarse. Han bloqueado por completo las islas con un campo ultra-magnético que disuade a cualquier persona de intentar entrar adentro. Esto fue el resultado a la negativa a un tratado que la ONU había aprobado, el mismo significaba la oposición a continuar con el desarrollo bio-tecnológico ante el peligro que podría suponer para los seres humanos. Cuando la postura de Japón finalmente comienza a distanciarse del resto de países, el gobierno norteamericano envía un equipo fuerzas especiales, con la comandante Vexille al frente, y cuya misión es averiguar qué es lo que realmente esta sucediendo dentro del país asiático.

Risa Koizumi es la chica más alta en clase, y la última cosa que quiere es la humillación de estar junto a Atsushi Otani, el chico más bajo. Pero el destino y toda la escuela tienen otros planes.

Matsuko fue asesinada a los 53 años cerca de un río próximo a su apartamento. Un sobrino suyo investiga el caso y va reconstruyendo los episodios de la desgraciada vida de su tía. Estuvo nominada a nueve premios de la Academia de Cine Japonesa (director, actriz, sonido, banda sonora, iluminación, dirección artística, guión, montaje y fotografía) y obtuvo tres: mejor actriz (Miki Nakatani), mejor montaje (Yoshiyuki Koike) y mejor BSO (Gabriele Roberto & Takeshi Shibuya).

The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to a platoon from the Fleet Training Group. No sooner is the Isokaze on open water, however, then the FTG reveal themselves to be terrorist stowaways who kill the ship's captain, send the rest of the crew overboard and take control of the vessel. The ship is carrying a secret biological weapon which the terrorists are now threatening to use to level Tokyo! Only a stowaway NCO, Sengoko (played by Sanada Hiroyuki from Ring and Twilight Samurai) is in a position to stop them - but does he really have what it takes to save the day? Playing like a cross between a sea-faring version of Top Gun and Die Hard, director Sakamoto Junji shows that it's not just Hollywood that can produce thrill-a-minute action spectaculars.

Respira, Respira hacia fuera se centra en seis, más tarde siete, individuos que han conseguido trabajos cosechando caña de azúcar en una pequeña isla de Okinawa. Cada trabajador tiene su propia personalidad única, así como sus propios problemas a medida que aprenden a trabajar juntos..

El día de su boda, Mina (Yumiko Shaku) es asesinada. Su alma viaja a la Puerta del Rencor, donde Izuko, su guardiana, le da a elegir tres destinos: aceptar la muerte, ir al paraíso y esperar a la reencarnación; seguir siendo un alma y vagar eternamente por el mundo de los vivos; o maldecir a una persona y matarla. A la dificultad de semejante decisión, se suma el sufrimiento de su novio Kôhei, con quien Mina no puede comunicarse en tanto que alma, un encuentro con el responsable de su muerte, Tatsuya Kudo, ingeniero genético de fama internacional, y la amenaza de más muertes. La frontera entre el bien y el mal se desdibuja ante la imperiosa pregunta.

Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2003 Fall Special" presents five tales. 1. *Kagi (The Key) - starring Eguchi Yosuke. 2. Perfect Couple - starring Yada Akiko. 3. Toosugita Otoko (The Man Who Was Too Far Away) - starring Nakamura Shido. 4. Meiro (The Maze)- starring Tanihara Shosuke. 5. Kage ga Omonaru Toki (When Shadows Accumulate) - starring Yashima Norito. * Adapted from a novel by Tsutsui Yasutaka.

Japanese horror starring Stephen Fung as a man who dies in a skiing accident, only for his best friend to marry his wife and inherit his fortune. Supernatural hijinks ensue.

After surviving from an incident of Cruise ship hijacking, both doctor Tamaki and the boy injured in the incident, Ryota Inamoto, suffered from different degrees of PTSD. Meanwhile, Doctor Chiharu Kanbayashi's wife is about to give birth to their first children. Would these doctors and patients succeed in overcoming their problems and welcome a happy new year?

En su búsqueda de alimento radioactivo, Godzilla ha destruido ciudades y plantas nucleares Japonesas a lo largo de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Para detenerlo, se creó el Cuartel G-War, un centro de investigación apoyado por el equipo de combate G-Graspers. Su última arma, el Dimension Tide, tiene como objetivo encerrar a Godzilla en el interior de un Agujero Negro.

Kenichi is a half-Japanese, half-Chinese man of the underworld. You can sell him anything except children's organs. His domain is in Kabukicho, a gangland controlled by various Shanghai gangs intent on taking control. His former partner-in-crime, Fu-Chun, is rumored to have returned to Kabukicho, having fled years earlier after killing the number two of gangland boss, Yuan. Yuan wants to get even and attempts to do so by using Kenichi.

A violent action film depicting the story of "Fudokuichi," a clear-headed high school student who is the young head of a Kyokudo family in Kyushu. Starring Tanihara Shosuke, Takeuchi Riki, Natsume Rei and others.

The story of Fudoh II concerns a group of delinquent high school girls who decide they will take over organized crime in Tokyo's Shinjuku district. Their method is simple: murdering as many mobsters as possible.

Based on the comic book of the same name by Kaoru Tada.

Para resolver una disputa comercial, un líder de la mafia asesina a uno de sus propios hijos adolescentes. El hijo sobreviviente jura vengar la muerte de su hermano y organiza a su propia banda de asesinos adolescentes para destruir la organización de su padre.

It's a story about a girl who becomes a student at Eitoku Gakuen, the institute for very rich people. She is faced with four of the most powerful and rich guys at school who call themselves F4.

Catherine Turner is the daughter of the Vice President of the United States, and she had come with her father on his official visit to Japan. Since she runs a flower arrangement business back in the US, Catherine decides to stay on in Japan to learn Ikebana, after her father had returned home at the end of the official visit. Japan's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hamaguchi Yukio, asks his nephew, Ichiro, to escort Catherine during her extended stay in Japan with the strict instructions that he is not to fall in love with her.