Ayumu Saito

Set at the Hotel Royal, situated in the marshland of Hokkaido, Japan, and follows the guests, the family that runs the hotel, and the hotel's staff. Masayo Tanaka is the only child of the family that runs Hotel Royal. She failed to enter an arts school and she now works at the hotel. She does not show her emotions to anyone.

Takeshiro Matsuura was a Japanese explorer who was the first person to document the inner reaches of what is now known as Hokkaido. He explored the area extensively during the mid 19th century and created a map of the island that included parts which had been ignored by earlier cartographers. He visited Ainu communities and compiled records of the large numbers of the population who had been conscripted for forced labor far from their homes. Matsuura suggested the name Hokkaido for the area

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.

In order to find a missing university student, a detective and his buddy get involved with the owner of a modeling agency.

Ayami Kawaguchi is a 17-year-old high school student. Her family runs a tofu shop where the tofu is made with local spring water. She is a member of her high school's kyudo club, but she doesn't do well there. One day, Ayami delivers tofu to a local sake brewery. There, she finds the owner of the sake brewery, Shozo Sugita, collapsed and he is sent to hospital. Afterwards, Ayami Kawaguchi gets involved in a dispute over the water source succession.

Detective Ryoko Kozuki receives a demotion after having an affair with a superior. She succeeds in arresting a rapist in an undercover operation that puts her at risk. Her achievement immediately becomes the talk of the precinct, but no one approaches her because of her past. Ryoko is determined to bring criminals to justice. She takes on “The Prime Ministerial Candidate Snipe Case” which took place 15 years earlier.

Starting in 1970s Hokkaido, the film charts the moral descent of Detective Moroboshi over three decades, the young cop quickly gets a bit too cozy with the other side of the law when his senior colleague Murai teaches him the ropes and ruts of the police business. Soon, he swaggers and rants through the streets of Sapporo a lean, mean, sex‐crazy bully, indistinguishable from a yakuza.

After the death of his grandfather, Koen Shirakawa (Atsushi Ito) quits his job at a bookstore and goes to a temple to become a monk.

Otomo sale de la cárcel dispuesto a derrocar al clan Sanno, que lo dio por muerto años atrás. A esta venganza personal se suma una guerra entre familias rivales y, también, la ofensiva de las fuerzas de la ley contra el crimen organizado.

"Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney" traslada a la pantalla una popularísima saga de videojuegos ambientada en un futuro donde los juicios criminales se han convertido en desaforados procesos de tan solo tres días. Ante ese escenario, el joven abogado Phoenix Wright deberá sacar lo mejor de sí mismo para lograr resolver el misterioso asesinato de su mentor.

Deseando morir con dignidad, Hanshiro, un samurái sin recursos pide realizar un ritual de suicidio en la residencia del clan Li, cuyo director es Kageyu, un guerrero obstinado. Tratando de desalentarlo, Kageyu le cuenta la trágica historia de Motome, un joven ronin, que llegó solicitando lo mismo. Remake en 3D de la película homónima de Masaki Kobayashi (1962), con Tatsuya Nakadai en el papel principal.

A pawn shop owner in Osaka is murdered, but due to a lack of conclusive evidence the police lists the man's death as a suicide. Detective Sasagaki, who investigated the case, can't forget the dark eyes of the main suspect's daughter Yukiho and the pawn shop owner's son Ryouji. As time goes by, more mysterious deaths surround Yukiho & Ryouji. Detective Sasagaki still unable to let go of the pawn shop owner case discovers startling details about Yukiho and Ryouji ...

Katagiri, a highly ambitious young detective, teams up with older detective Takiguchi, who is about to retire, to investigate a murder that took place by Sumida River. Katagiri is annoyed by Takiguchi's pushiness, but is surprised to hear that the victim was a suspect in the 300 million yen robbery.

Dr Toma, a skilled surgeon, starts work at a regional hospital in Japan. After performing an operation to remove a patient’s liver cancer, something that normally would not be done at this hospital, he quickly gains a very good reputation amongst the town’s people. Some of his colleagues become so jealous they are resentful and waiting patiently for the perfect opportunity to crucify him. Soon they get their chance as Dr Toma considers performing a controversial operation…

Summer Wars está protagonizada por el joven Kenji Koise, gran amante de las matemáticas y la informática, que tras quedar eliminado a primeras de un concurso de matemáticas a principios de verano se verá con todo el verano por delante y sin nada que hacer. Hasta que la chica más popular del instituto, Natsuki Shinohara, le invitará a pasar las vacaciones a su pueblo con su familia. La razón es que pretende hacer pasar a Kenji por su novio debido a una promesa realizada a su bisabuela. Pero las cosas se complicarán al día después de la llegada de los jóvenes, y tendrán que enfrentarse a una fabulosa aventura en un mundo de fantasía junto al resto de la familia comandados por la abuela.

Yatterman cuenta la historia del trío de villanos conocido como La Banda Dorombo, quienes persiguen la leyenda de una misteriosa gema llamada Piedra cráneo que es capaz de revelar el más grande yacimiento de oro en el mundo.

Suzuki Sora is a cheerful country girl from the small town of Bie. She made a promise to her father, and following this promise applies and is accepted for a magic intership in Tokyo, where she will face the life in a big city. While training to get better with her magic, she meets a mysterious boy also practicing to become a mage. While he can not use magic that well and he seems distant and cold at first, Sora’s fate intertwines with his and the two are thrown together, learning a lot of new things about life and each other.

Tras haber salido de prisión y cansada de los cotilleos del vecindario sobre ella y su familia, Suzuko Sato, una joven de 21 años, decide vagar por todo Japón, estableciéndose en un lugar hasta que ahorra un millón de yenes, momento en el que se marcha a otro destino para vivir nuevas experiencias y conocer a otras personas.

Betrayed and disgraced, big-city reporter Kazuya Mizuno is banished to a desk at Kaname's boring little town newspaper. But Kaname isn't as boring as it seems on the surface. Not with characters around like Shimeko, a girl genius with a childlike lack of propriety, and her ace fisherman/folk-singer dad. Or the overbearing and unpleasant local Shinto priest, a former Christian cultist. Or Endo, Kazuya's new colleague, a bitter drunk after his son's suicide. Or Kin, a former terrorist, now a hermit on his boat engaging in secret "research." Or perhaps most importantly Teruko, the hypnotically beautiful bar owner, the focus of all manner of innuendo and intrigue. Something mysterious, even mystical, is going on Kaname, and hapless Kazuya is about to be thrown into the middle of it.

The film follows a young aspiring art university student, who falls in love with the older sister of his girlfriend. The heartrending longing and the true love that the three characters pursue, is pure, but almost painful. Is the person who stands next to you, is the person that gives you true comfort and love? Can you say that you love him/her from the bottom of your heart?

Yoko is an ordinary housewife living in an ordinary apartment block. She has no real complaints as she goes about her tedious days, although her husband, Shinichi, is rather predictable in bed. They have one son, Junichi, and Yoko feels at a loss regarding his recently-acquired adolescent interest in sex and his secret stash of erotic magazines. Junichi is about to write his junior high school entrance exams, so he’s heading off to cram school camp for New Year’s. Before going, he makes a surprising suggestion, “Why don’t you guys go somewhere for New Year’s?” Yoko and Shinichi are suddenly faced with the prospect of New Year’s apart from their son. How will this couple, who’ve already lived half of their lives, change their behavior when it’s just the two of them?

Eight school friends innocently join together to play a game that, if played well, promised to make their greatest dreams come true. But, they soon discover that mistakes may cost them more than even their dreams could tell.

Whenever Ami and her step-brother, Hiroshi accept one another in bed, the telephone rings; advising them of their parents’ death. 12 months later, Ami resides with Hiroshi and his spouse, Mariko. Apparently, they are delighted but there is indisputable pressure among Ami and Mariko. One day, Mariko gets angry at Ami for always following into their bed room without permit. Giving up her calm, Ami blurts out that she has a connection with Hiroshi…

Fuki who lives with her grandfather Shoei in Taketomi Island, Okinawa, dreams of becoming a photographer. In her childhood, her mother Masami left Fuki to live in Tokyo. Although Masami has not come back, Fuki receives birthday cards from Masami every year on her birthday. On Fuki's fourteenth birthday, Masami promises to confess everything when Fuki becomes 20 years old. After her graduation from high school, Fuki moves to Tokyo to work as a camera assistant. Fuki starts off her hectic life in Tokyo, and soon, her nineteenth birthday comes. As usual, she receives a birthday card from Masami. A year later...

"The man behind the scissors" trata de dos asesinos en serie: el cerebro Yasunaga y su ayudante femenina Chinatsu. Los dos están en riego de ser descubiertos cuando la policía les interroga como testigos de un asesinato espantoso que ellos mismos puedan haber cometido. Un thriller policial peculiar y sorprendente en torno a estos dos asesinos que colaboran en degollando colegialas. Mientras los sospechosos se encuentran siendo interrogados su próxima víctima potencial aparece muerta ... con su mismo modus operandi.

A woman as the main character, love and friendship, and one of the

Detective Mimura was living peacefully with his loving wife and son when the latter two were killed in an explosion caused by a 14-year-old boy, Yuya. Four years later, when Yuya is released from juvenile detention centre, Mimura's feelings towards the boy have evolved from grief to outright hatred, and he must cope with the pain. Meanwhile, Yuya's father quits his job as a teacher and dedicates himself to compensate the victims and to take care of his son. While the adults are trying to come to terms with their disrupted lives, Yuya is about to test the law again...

Heaven's Bookstore is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Tetsuo Shinohara about a struggling classical pianist who is sent to heaven to work in a bookstore. It is based on two novels, written by Atsushi Matsuhisa and Wataru Tanaka.

Masuoka, cámara de televisión de profesión, ha grabado el suicidio particularmente violento de un hombre, cuya mirada llena de espanto le tiene subyugado. No parará hasta comprender el porqué de este terror. Cree encontrar algunas pistas en los subterráneos de Tokio: siguiendo las huellas de los "Deros", un pueblo de leyenda que habría invadido el centro de la Tierra para atormentar a los hombres, descubre a una joven, encadenada, en estado salvaje. La lleva a su casa y la observa: aún encerrada en su mutismo y postrada, muestra un comportamiento extrañamente animal. Su ex-mujer, a la que no reconoce, está preocupada por el juego ambiguo que le une a la chica y apela por última vez a la razón. Pero Masuoka está en lo cierto: ha visto Deros en la ciudad, ha comprendido que la joven se alimenta de sangre humana y decide satisfacer las necesidades de su invitada.

When a young woman witnesses a suicide she is so overwhelmed with sexual excitement that she masturbates, unaware that she is being observed by a strange man. Later he invites her home where she is wined and dined. Soon she wakes up to find herself locked in a cage. Of course their twisted and sadomasochistic relationship will end in a sadistically explicit bloodbath... The version of "All Night Long 5" I have is in Japanese, but the above synopsis is general gist. I'm a big fan of Katsuya Matsumura and I absolutely love the first three "All Night Long" movies."All Night Long R" is also pretty good whilst still being deeply disturbing.Unfortunately "Initial O" is too long and sometimes dull, so I was a little bit disappointed.Still there is plenty of sex and some unsettling sexual torture on display. There is not enough gore,but some scenes (for example throat slashing or castration) are particularly nasty.

Los espíritus de Kayako y Toshio continúan una maldición de la que nadie podrá escapar. En esta ocasión, la maldición cae sobre el equipo de televisión que lidera Kyoko, una actriz especializada en películas de terror. Acuden a la casa para grabar un programa sobre asuntos paranormales.

Twelve year old Sei has hit puberty and is quickly becoming sexually aware, sometimes not as privately as he'd like; erections in school and other inopportune times plague him. He talks about it with his school friends, Kinta and Nyanko, in between their feuding over the affections of classmate Yumi, but can't figure out what to do about it.

Shangri-La follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly commits suicide and decide to help him out of his financial troubles. Using their various ingenious resources they embark on a complex scheme to blackmail a crooked businessman, whose bankruptcy claim has put people out of work. It’s a fun romp as these seemingly homeless people manage to outsmart the very people who cast them from society.

A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon their individuality.

In her brother's apartment where he died, Yuki finds a vacuum cleaner with its cord still hooked up to the outlet. She discovers that the circumstances surrounding her brother's supposed suicide are sketchy at best, yet no one has any answers. When she starts having hallucinations involving his ghost, however, she seeks some psychological help, eventually uncovering some things that she may have wished she'd left covered.