Akio Yokoyama

Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she discovers Tetsuro is terminally ill. Tetsuro’s impending death marks the beginning of love and toleration.

A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.

A vast wheat field, a straight road that has no end, a sky without a single building in sight – this is a town in the country where time comfortably passes by. But this former paradise is now being stirred up by a fight amongst its people over constructing an airport. This is a tale of three young people exploring youth and friendship as they reach out into the sky.

After serving a jail sentence, a former leading yakuza (Takaaki Ishibashi) has gone straight. He has married and is now holding a regular job. However, he is continually harrassed by a police inspector who cannot forgive his past. Meanwhile a major gang war erupts. With his former gang in danger of being exterminated, will his loyalties draw him back in?

A mitad de camino entre el Cielo y la Tierra, los que acaban de morir son recibidos por unos guías que les ayudan a examinar sus recuerdos con el fin de rememorar un momento decisivo de sus vidas. Cada uno de los muertos debe escoger un único recuerdo para que sea plasmado en una película y poder así llevarlo con ellos cuando vayan al Cielo.

Young and beautiful germophobe Ritsuko moves into a picture perfect neighborhood with her parents, being monitored by a research team who want to cure her of her debilitating phobias. Will her new neighbors be able to cure her of her irrational view of the outside world, or will coming face to face with this fairy-tale setting only drive her further inside of her subconsciousness?

A manga artist stumbles into the sleazy world of perverts who stalk trains looking for women to molest. He discovers quickly that he is very much one of them and even finds love along the way. The first in the alarmingly long-running Molester Diary series.

An anthology film based on the works of manga artist Yoshiharu Tsuge. The main character in all four segments is a fledgling cartoonist named Tsube . In the first segment, Tsube encounters a dotty old man named Ri after renting a tumble-down cottage in the country. The following day, Ri, his equally weird wife, and his two squalid children move into his house. Soon the wife is stealing the cucumbers in his garden while the two kids devour all the food in the house.

A police officer is recruited to a special agency and given a license to kill. He is given a dozen or so young policemen and a bar as a front. Meanwhile, girls are disappearing and the friend of one girl is searching for her. It turns out the girls are being kidnapped and sold into bizarre kinky sex games to rich industrialists by a megalomaniacal corporation. One of the young deputies becomes involved and finds a friend of his (the boyfriend of the searching woman) is involved.

A Francophile filmmaker in a creative rut tries to pass off a free-spirited young actress as his movie-star wife in order to fool a chief from the South Seas.

A shady music mogul brings together two wannabe stars—punk rock rebel Kan and new-wave crooner Shingo—and transforms them into the Stardust Brothers, a girl-friendly, silver-jumpsuited, synth-pop sensation. Along with their #1 fan, who herself dreams of a music career, the duo rockets to stardom.

The story of friendship, love and sportsmanship among high-school students.

Era una vieja ley del pueblo, de un tiempo tan lejano que ya nadie lo recordaba; Al alcanzar los 70 los ancianos debían abandonar el pueblo para ir a vivir en la cima de la montaña Narayama. Una sentencia de muerte despiadada que sumía en la tristeza y la desesperación a las familias cuando tenían que enviar a sus mayores a la montaña. Orin tiene 69 años y se acerca el momento de partir hacia la montaña, pero todavía tiene que encontrar una mujer a su hijo. Remake de la película "Narayama bushiko", dirigida en 1958 por Keisuke Kinoshita.

Youth suspense movie.

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Second live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel.

Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The film tells the tale of the four monks' youth and the life and times of the high priest Ganjin.

Japanese drama film.