Eiko Koike

Haruo Izawa is 45 years old and the floor chief of the local grocery store “Umeya”. He is highly trusted by Store Manager Ueda and the part-time ladies and the Ohara branch is the only place where he has been working for 25 years. Although he says that he doesn’t fit to be a store manager, he is still concerned about HR and career advancement. That’s why Ueda’s praise "command center" is his only treasure. Besides, he is also a husband of his wife Ritsuko, and a father of two daughters and a son, Koume, Kanako, and Ryota at home. Humor and pathos are said to be only a fine line, but Haruo’s fruitless actions of paying attention to the human relationships and atmosphere and overthinking never stop.. Where is this middle-aged man’s turmoil going??

Sawako worked as an emergency physician at a university hospital. Due to to a situation, she returns to her father Tatsuro's home in Ishikawa Prefecture. She then begins to work at the local Mahoroba Clinic. She works with the clinic director Toru, Nurse Mayo and staff Seiji. Seiji, who worked with Sawako at the university hospital, followed her and works with her again. Mahoroba Clinic provides home healthcare to patients. Sawako visits the patients' homes and provides treatment there. At first, she has a hard time due to the different system. She becomes acclimated to the different system and finds a way to deal with the patients, their lives, and their families. --asianwiki

Naoko Tanaka is a 26-year-old office lady (OL). Her job is typical, but her workplace has fierce fights among different cliques. Other OLs are absorbed in the daily clique fighting. One day, due to an OL at the company, Naoko Tanaka's company is targeted by OL from all over Japan.

La historia se desarrolla en una ciudad rodeada por un muro de 4 kilómetros de alto. Como el pueblo está repleto de chimeneas, el cielo siempre está cubierto de humo y nadie sabe cómo es realmente. Una noche, cuando se celebra el festival de Halloween de la ciudad, un repartidor tira sin querer el corazón que debía entegar. Como no encuentra el corazón con tanto humo, decide rendirse. El corazón mientras tanto sigue latiendo allí donde cayó en esta ciudad repleta de chimeneas.

The editor-in-chief of a literary magazine who is popular with women sets up a fake wife and bids farewell to his mistresses.

Keisuke Kuroda wakes up in a hospital bed unable to remember who he is. While sneaking out of the hospital, he sees a glimpse of the news and realizes that he is the Prime Minister of Japan. His approval rating was the lowest in the history of modern Japan. During a recent speech, a citizen had thrown a rock at him causing him to lose his memory. Keisuke Kuroda’s subordinate takes him to the official residence of the prime minister where he tries to implement changes to the country. The only people aware that he has lost his memory are his three secretaries.

Kume tries to protect her husband Tokugawa Yoshimune and their three children from the schemes of the inner palace of Edo Castle.

A group of friends from high school days reunite for once more time before one of them dies from cancer.

A woman was killed by a truck wheel, which flew off while the vehicle was in motion. As the freight company which owns the truck becomes the target of the public and the media’s wrath, Tokuro Akamatsu, the president of the freight company, realizes that a structural defect within the truck itself may have been to blame. A conspiracy of the wheel manufacturer's attempts to cover up a defective product is uncovered.

Kuma is an author, a sex obsessive and a wheelchair user. Beautiful and volatile Ryoko is unlike anybody he’s ever met before. She barrages into one of his lectures, demanding to know why he only talks of sex, not love, before declaring her own affection. It’s the first of many inappropriate acts by Ryoko and the start of a relationship that is by turns sweet, strange and toxic. Ryoko hopes that she and Kuma’s love can change the world. What she fails to realise is that sometimes it’s the small gestures, not the grand ones, that feel most revolutionary.

Takashi Aoyama (Asuka Kudo) tiene mucho trabajo por hacer y se esfuerza mentalmente demasiado. Se desmaya y se derrumba en una estación de ferrocarril. Cuando está a punto de ser atropellado por un tren, Yamamoto (Sota Fukushi) lo salva y habla con un dialecto de Osaka. Después de su encuentro con Yamamoto, Takashi recupera su brillante personalidad y obtiene mejores resultados en el trabajo. Un día, Takashi ve a Yamamoto subir a un autobús al cementerio con una expresión seria.

In the spring, when Yui Kashiwazaki (Erika Sawajiri) and her 3 years old son were coming back home from kindergarten, she let go of her son's hand for a moment and then he was gone. 9 years later, her son appears in front of her again.

Six directors picked a favorite song by Japanese punk rock band "The Blue Hearts" and made a short film inspired by the song.

La madre de Tomo, una niña de once años, deja su hogar por un tiempo indefinido. Tomo, acostumbrada a los abandonos temporales de su madre, acude a casa de su tío Makio. Allí descubre que vive con Rinko, su actual novia, que es una mujer transexual. Rinko trabaja como enfermera cuidadora y, entre otros pacientes, cuida de la madre de Makio y abuela de Tomo, que sufre de demencia. La situación confunde a Tomo pero, pese a ello, los tres empiezan una vida doméstica juntos.

En el siglo XXI, la humanidad decidió empezar el proceso de terraformación de Marte, y se envió una nave con musgo y cucarachas para que generasen una atmósfera adecuada. 500 años después, un grupo de personas es enviado al planeta rojo con el objetivo de exterminar a las cucarachas. El problema es que estas han evolucionado... y que odian a los humanos. Un nuevo delirio de Miike, basado en un manga, y con acción a prueba de insecticidas.

Sachiko lost her parents at an early age and lived together with her only sister Nobuko who worked for a newspaper. Out of the blue, she is told that Nobuko is killed in an accident, but she simply cannot believe it because her sister had told her she was going to an entirely different place. She begins her investigations on her sister’s mysterious death with the help of Nobuko’s colleague and journalist Ryoichi. And when another colleague, Tomoe commits suicide, Sachiko has a gut feeling that a well-known figure is involved in the death of her sister...

Yuma Nakahara (Yutaka Takenouchi) is the CEO of an IT company and he is a workaholic. He is focused only on expanding his company. He receives a phone call from his former co-worker and friend Kouhei, but Kouhei doesn't say anything. Yuma gets the sense that something is wrong and heads to Kouhei's hometown of Shinminato, Toyama Prefecture, Japan. In Shinminato, Yuma meets other people and becomes involved in the Shinminato Hikiyama Festival. His outlook on life begins to change.

Ayumi, una limpiadora del hospital, llama de pronto al joven doctor genio para decirle que está embarazada de él. Él, un impenitente mujeriego, se toma la noticia a broma dado que es el Día de los Inocentes, lo que acarreará consecuencias insospechadas. Mientras, un chico intenta por todos los medios contactar con un ovni que lo devuelva a donde pertenece, que desde luego no puede ser el instituto donde lo acosan. Por otra parte, un matrimonio mayor recorre aristocráticamente la ciudad, una niña es secuestrada, un policía detiene a una vidente... Una película coral donde todas las historias acaban relacionándose de forma sorprendente, y que transcurre enteramente en un muy loco y divertido Día de los Inocentes.

Yamakura of the Kobe Fire Department aspires to wear the vaunted “orange” uniform of an elite rescue force that only 3% of all firefighters can attain. But to do so, he and his fellow trainees must suffer through the most rigorous training. As Yamakura and his fellow trainees grit their teeth and complain, their superior officer, Sakurai, impresses upon them the lessons of the Great Hanshin Earthquake (Kobe Earthquake) 20 years ago as “the only time we ever lost.” What happened on the front lines of rescue that day and in the aftermath? What raced through the hearts and minds of rescuers as they tried to get a handle on unimaginable disaster? The shocking facts pour from Sakurai’s mouth in hopes of preparing the recruits for the unforgettable event that awaits them.

Attorneys Kensuke Komikado and Machiko Mayuzumi receive a request from a general hospital. They go up against veteran attorney Kazuma Kujou who is trying to extract money from the general hospital by a medical malpractice lawsuit.

Etsuko's café in her peaceful little seaside town is where everyone gathers to gossip and taste her famous brew. But the winds of change are beginning to blow.

In 1959, a body of a flight attendant of an international airline is found, strangled. Detective Rokuro Fujisawa takes charge of the investigation with a young detective Ichimura and his investigations lead him to Father Tolbeck as a suspect. But the police are forced to move very discreetly as the time was right after the Second World War, when a sensitive situation that involves Western people and religion is likely to become an international issue. The investigation leads to an unexpected discloser of a shadowy business behind the church that reflects the uncertainty of the time.

La esperada y curiosa adaptación japonesa del western “Unforgiven” (1992) de Clint Eastwood encabezada por el director japonés Sang-il Lee (“Villain“, 2010) nos presenta su primera teaser. Esta versión se va a llamar con el nombre de japonés de “Yurusarezaru Mono” o el mismo “Unforgiven“. El protagonista será Ken Watanabe al que ya le hemos visto acompañando a Tom Cruise en el año 2003 con “El último samurai“, y ha trabajado con el propio Clint Eastwood en el año 2006 con “Cartas desde Iwo Jima“. Esta vez volverá a ser un samurái, aunque uno más violento todavía, que vive jubilado en la isla norteña japonesa de Hokkaido con su esposa, pero será sacado de la jubilación para un último trabajo. Koichi Sato (“Ace Attorney“, 2012) hará el papel correspondiente a Gene Hackman, y Akira Emoto (“The Floating Castle“, 2012), el de Morgan Freeman.

The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she was playing. The murder is never solved. Emili's mother, Asako, is torn by grief and puts a curse on the four girls when they claim not to remember the killer's face. Each of the girls, in their own way, will do penance for their silence.

Kazuhiko Kogure, who is a 2nd grade student in middle school, falls off from one of the school's rooftop. There were other male students on the roof when Kazuhiko Kogure fell off. According to the other students there, Kazuhiko Kogure tried to jump to another school building, but missed. Fortunately, Kazuhiko Kogure only fractured his leg and ribs. According to Kazuhiko Kogure's mother Hidemi, the school insists it was students playing around and did not involve bullying. Hidemi though, doesn't believe it, because Kazuhiko Kogure has a fear of heights. Hidemi goes to see attorney Machiko Mayuzumi and Machiko decides to take her case, but she asks for fellow attorney Kensuke Komikado's help. Meanwhile, the school hires attorney Teshigahara Isao.

Four people decide to travel to Hunza, Pakistan to find paradise. Kentaro Tooma works as head of sales for a camera company. One of his clients is Jujo Togashi who owns the shop Camera Togashi. The two men are friends and become captivated by a picture with only a chair sitting in a field of grass. Kentaro and Jujo know of a 4-year-old boy Keisuke through Kentaro's eldest daughter. 4-year-old Keisuke is traumatized from being abused by his mother. Kishiko Shinohara is the owner of an antique shop. Kentaro Tooma has feelings for her.

After the demise of warlord Nobunaga ODA, Japan was about to be unified by Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI. However, there was one man in Kanto region that was defiant to it. That man, who named himself TenmaOh (Mirai MORIYAMA) and leads the KANTO DOKURO-TO, an armed group hiding in the pitch-black DOKURO-JO (skull castle), once worked for NOBUNAGA. Sutenosuke (Shun OGURI) happens to rescue a woman who has been chased by the KANTO DOKURO-TO, which was headed by the bloodthirsty madman TenmaOh.

"Good Morning Everyone!" revolves around a family involved in the punk music scene. Aki is a former guitarist for a punk band. She became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter named Hatsuki. The mother and daughter live together happily, but they do have different personalities. A man named Yagu then enters their life. He is an ex-member of the punk band that Aki played with. Yagu has feelings for Aki.

Teacher Kawashima Haru takes a position on a remote island off the coast of Hokkaido, where she takes charge of six students. However, she is later forced to leave after an accident occurs. 20 years later, Haru learns that one of her former students has committed a crime, and eventually returns to the island once more.

When Ayumi Mastuda (Eiko Koike) worked as a freelance writer she met Chinese cameraman Gyoukou (Kingone Wang), who worked at the same publishing company in Tokyo. They married 5 years ago. After his employer's went bankrupt, Gyoukou and Ayumi Matsuda moved to Ishigaki Island. Gyoukou also decided to apply for naturalization as a Japanese citizen. In order to prove they are real married couple they have an interview at a local Bureau of Judicial Affiars branch. As the interview goes along, they find it more difficult than expected ...

Para vengarse, la oficina Liar Game es revivida siendo su objetivo Shinichi Akiyama (Matsuda Shota). Debido a la aparición de una nueva heroina Shinomiya (Tabe Mikako), Shinichi que seguía negandose a participar en el juego se encuentra dentro del mismo junto a otros 19 jugadores que compiten por 2 millones de yenes. Omega (Esumi Makiko), que revivió el juego junto a Alice (Ashida Mana), crean el nuevo juego escogiendo a los jugadores y diseñando las nuevas trampas.

Domestic drama focusing on a soon to be retired train driver and his wife.

A woman named Kazuko (Kimura) who was guilty of a “serious crime” in the past, along with three of her friends. Those friends suddenly begin to die one by one. Kazuko learns that one of those deaths is somehow connected to Mamoru (Nakamura Aoi), her younger brother from whom she has been separated ever since their father disappeared 15 years earlier. Although Mamoru knows nothing of his sister, Kazuko is determined to find the killer in order to protect Mamoru and herself.

After the collapse of their relationship, Kiwako abducts the 6-month old child of a man she was having an affair with. Raising the child as her own, it is four years before the authorities catch up with her and the young child.

Director Tominaga Masanori (Pandora's Box) brings Motoya Yukiko's offbeat play Ranbo to Taiki to the big screen in a juicy, neurotic tangle of love, hate and voyeurism. Hidenori (Asano Tadanobu) and Nanase (Minami) have lived together for ten years in a tense, platonic relationship. The wheels of change are set in motion when married couple Takao (Yamada Takayuki) and Azusa (Koike Eiko) move in next door. After Hidenori catches Nanase and Takao having an affair, he becomes obsessed with watching Nanase through a peephole, and planning his cruel revenge.

Naoko returns home with her young daughter, where her mother Masako runs the only beauty parlor in town. The local women go there to pass the time lamenting their bad luck with men and laughing over dirty jokes. Unbeknownst to them, Naoko has been secretly seeing her former teacher, Kashima.

The story of a young man who has felt since childhood utterly alien from others around him. Since that time he has learned to put on a face to hide his alienation. He feels incapable of belonging to the human society, especially so by society's refusal to take him seriously. He then follows a descent into alcohol, drugs, & suicide ...

Tras los terribles eventos ocurridos en el 2015, Amigo se ha convertido finalmente en líder mundial. Su poder supremo es inapelable, y la vida de todos los seres humanos pasa por la obediencia ciega al gran líder. No obstante, las fuerzas de la resistencia, encabezadas por Yoshitsune, Yukiji y Otcho, continúan luchando para lograr desenmascararle. Y más aún cuando se anuncia un nuevo cataclismo, el Juicio Final definitivo, que arrasará con toda vida humana en la Tierra en el 2017. Sus esfuerzos y los de Kanna tendrán que redoblarse en una mortal cuenta atrás para salvar el planeta, y detener definitivamente a Amigo. Sólo un milagro podrá salvarles, y resolver el gran misterio final que les ha mantenido al borde del abismo desde hace 20 años: ¿quién se esconde tras la máscara de Amigo?. Tercera y última parte de la trilogía que adapta el manga de culto 20th Century Boys.

En el año 2015, Tokio es muy diferente de cómo era antes del siglo XXI. La secta de Amigo ha ido apoderándose poco a poco de toda la sociedad japonesa, y ha logrado que Kenji sea considerado culpable de los devastadores acontecimientos que tuvieron lugar el fin de año del 2000. Kanna, la sobrina de Kenji, ya es una brillante adolescente y no pierde la esperanza de poder reencontrarse algún día con su tío y demostrar su inocencia. Pero los planes de Amigo no cesan, y al peligro de su poder absoluto sobre Japón se suma una inesperada amenaza: la aparición del Nuevo Libro de las Profecías. Un libro semejante al que fue escrito por Kenji, pero que prevé un nuevo y desalentador futuro para toda la raza humana en el que Amigo se convertirá en un Dios. ¿Quién lo ha escrito? ¿Dónde está Kenji? Y sobre todo… ¿quién es Amigo?. Segunda parte de la trilogía que adapta el manga de culto 20th Century Boys.

There once was a hospital where patients and even doctors & nurses were all weird. Above all, Onuki, a patient who built up his company all by himself from scratch, is a super cranky old man. One day, he meets up a girl called Paco, who cannot retain memory beyond one day due to a car accident. She is reading the same picture book everyday. Onuki starts bonding with Paco after some incident, and begins to doubt his way of living. He starts wanting to do something for Paco with his remaining life, and comes up with a brilliant idea. This pleases Paco, but their fate is?

Masato and his wife Keiko are a happy couple, with their children Eiji and Erina. He, she and Eiji are plunged into despair, after Eiji and Erina are involved in a car accident whereby Erina dies.

One day Kyoko watches television and sees a man turning himself in to the police after murdering a family. Something within Kyoko connects with the man, as she recognizes a similar soul. Despite the worries of the killer's lawyer, she approaches the killer and the two start corresponding.

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.

Ume y Kame son dos hermanas ya viejas que han vivido toda la vida en la misma casa. Su día a día consiste en levantarse, desayunar y salir por el vecindario a buscar objetos peculiares en papeleras y contenedores, que acumulan y catalogan ordenadamente dentro de la casa. Un día se encuentran una cesta con ovillos de lana roja que las maravilla y se los llevan a casa sin darse cuenta de que con ellos también se llevan otra cosa muy especial. (

Dos amantes samurai homosexuales se embarcan en una misión hacia Ise Shrine, un viaje que los obliga a enfrentar de todo, desde la drogadicción hasta una batalla con el Rey Artiuro. Basada parcialmente en la novela de Tokkaidochu Hizakurige.

Suzu lives with Furuta, her fiance, but one day she leaves home without saying a word. She moves into the apartment of her friend Abe, but he has gone abroad and Yoko now lives in his apartment. Suzu and Yoko, who have known each other since childhood and have both always loved Furuta, thus find themselves sharing the same home.

Momoko (Kyoko Fukada) es una joven solitaria que vive en su propio mundo construido sobre la época rococó francesa y que tiene una visión muy particular de las cosas. Pero su mundo de disfraces y máscaras pronto se ve trastocado por la llegada de Ichigo (Anna Tsuchiya), una gamberra motorizada que, al contrario de ella, prefiere el estilo norteamericano y necesita estar rodeada de gente en todo momento. Para ello se inventa una leyenda urbana que la hará sentir importante y gracias a la cual juntará una pandilla propia con Momoko. A partir de ese momento ambas iniciarán una inseparable amistad que las hará ver el mundo de forma diferente. Adaptación de una novela de Novala Takemoto (autor de las novelas Lolita).

Pepe Benengeli es un ciclista profesional español que compite en la Vuelta ciclista a España. Gregario del equipo PaoPao, Pepe no ha destacado hasta el momento en el pelotón, teniendo que hacer frente a la presión de los patrocinadores que se plantean su despido. A ello se une la boda de su hermano mayor, Ángel, con su ex novia Carmen en la penúltima etapa de la competición. Pepe decide que es el momento de esforzarse para triunfar y conseguir así el respeto de su equipo y familia.

A young cameraman receives a letter from an old girlfriend, announcing that she is to hold a photo exhibition in the United States. Having heard rumors that she has died, he follows his curiosity to New York City.

Dos actrices ambiciosas, que comparten apartamento, se enteran de que han sido preseleccionadas para un mismo papel y que tienen que esperar una noche más para ver quién se quedará con el trabajo. A lo largo de la noche, su competitividad y rencores ocultos convierten su apartamento en un campo de batalla.

Un espeluznante thriller sobre la vida de un inteligente asesino en serie, que mantiene en vilo a la policía y utiliza a la prensa para anunciar sus malvadas intenciones. Basada en hechos reales y adaptada según la novela del excelente autor japonés de novela criminal Miyuki Miyabe.

A youth comedy depicting five high school girls who got a pistol by chance and solve their problems with it.

Hagakure Makoto, young and cute, is trying to find a regular job to help support her family. She has no training in the real world, and she will meet with several corporate evils. But she was trained as a samurai by her grandfather, which will be useful to battle the evils of the world, including a bad samurai girl who is protected by an impenetrable net armor - with a week spot, like Achilles' heel. Eventually, it will come the time Makoto must leave this world - passing her skills into another young and cute girl.