Koji Yakusho

Koji Yakusho

Nacimiento : 1956-01-01, Isahaya, Japan

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Koji Yakusho
Koji Yakusho
Koji Yakusho
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Koji Yakusho

Películas

Madogiwa no Totto-chan
Sōsaku Kobayashi (voice)
This engaging series of childhood recollections tells about an ideal school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedom, and love. This unusual school had old railroad cars for classrooms, and it was run by an extraordinary man-its founder and headmaster, Sosaku Kobayashi--who was a firm believer in freedom of expression and activity.
Perfect Days
Hirayama
Hirayama parece totalmente satisfecho con su sencilla vida de limpiador de retretes en Tokio. Fuera de su estructurada rutina diaria, disfruta de su pasión por la música y los libros. Le encantan los árboles y les hace fotos. Una serie de encuentros inesperados revelan poco a poco más de su pasado.
銀河鉄道の父
família
Seiji Kamiya
Seiji Kamiya, a pottery craftsman who lives alone in a mountain village, temporarily returns to Japan with his fiancée, Nadia, who has been assigned to work in Algeria. Seiji opposes Satoru, who declares that Seiji should quit the company after marrying and Satoru should take over the pottery business. On the other hand, Marcos, a young Brazilian resident in Japan who lives in an apartment complex in the neighboring town to where Seiji lives, sees Seiji, who helped him when he was being chased and in whom Marcos sees the image of his late father, and he becomes interested in pottery work. Meanwhile, a tragedy strikes Satoru and Nadia, who has returned to Algeria.
The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
Kawai Tsugunosuke
The last year of Ryotaro Shiba's life, as he tried to achieve peace and independence without joining the armies of East and West.
Gratitude
A man wanders alone, away from his family, in search of a place to die. He runs away from the massage therapist who is supposed to heal him, and drives into the deep mountains in a car he stole on the road. He abandons his car and walks further into the forest, where he meets a strange young man.
The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who get involved in misadventures while on set.
Under the Open Sky
Mikami Masao
Mikami, un ex-yakuza de mediana edad con la mayor parte de su vida en prisión, es liberado después de cumplir 13 años de condena por asesinato. Con la esperanza de encontrar a su madre perdida hace mucho tiempo, de quien fue separado cuando era niño, solicita ayuda a un programa de televisión y conoce a un joven director de televisión, Tsunoda. Mientras tanto, lucha por conseguir un trabajo adecuado y encajar en la sociedad. Su naturaleza impulsiva e inflexible y sus creencias arraigadas causan fricciones en su relación con Tsunoda y aquellos que quieren ayudarlo.
Wings Over Everest
Jiang Yuesheng
Cuando un avión que transporta algunos documentos de vital importancia colisiona en la denominada "Zona Muerta" del monte Everest, dos hombres que aseguran trabajar para el gobierno de la India ofrecen una suculenta recompensa a un grupo de rescate para que los recupere lo antes posible.
Whistleblower
A seemingly lazy salaryman is tasked with managing a company secret.
Mirai, mi hermana pequeña
Grandfather (voice)
El niño y la bestia, la anterior película de Mamoru Hosoda, relataba el tránsito de un chico desde Shibuya a un universo sobrenatural. En el cine de Hosoda, el fantástico mezcla con la cotidianidad, algo que ocurre de nuevo en Mirai, película de una belleza conmovedora. En ella, el pequeño Kun aprende a lidiar con los cambios suscitados por la llegada de una hermanita gracias a unos viajes a un mundo fantástico.
The Blood of Wolves
Shogo Ogami
Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the yakuza. He is partnered with Detective Shuichi Hioka and they investigate a missing person case involving a financial company employee. Conflicts between opposing yakuza groups become more serious.
El tercer asesinato
Misumi
El conocido abogado Shigemori defiende a Misumi, acusado de robo con homicidio, que ya cumplió pena de cárcel por otro asesinato hace treinta años. Las posibilidades de que Shigemori gane el caso son escasas, ya que su cliente reconoce ser culpable, aunque esto probablemente signifique la pena de muerte. Pero a medida que desentraña el caso y escucha los testimonios del propio Misumi y de su familia, Shigemori empieza a dudar de la culpabilidad de su cliente.
Sekigahara
Tokugawa Ieyasu
La historia de "Sekigahara" tiene lugar en 1600 durante la Batalla de Sekigahara. Mitsunari Ishida (Junichi Okada) y Tokugawa (Koji Yakusho) se enfrentan con el destino de la nación colgando de un fino hilo. Hatsume (Kasumi Arimura) es enviada como un espía para matar a Mitsunari Ishida, pero se enamora de él. Está basada en la novela "Sekigahara" de Ryotaro Shiba que se publicó desde Julio de 1964 a Agosto de 1966 en Shukan sankei.
Oh Lucy!
Komori / Tom
Esta tragicomedia cuenta la historia de Setsuko Kawashima (Terajima), una mujer solitaria, fumadora, que trabaja en una oficina en Tokyo y que no está en su mejor momento. Tras apuntarse a clases de inglés, descubre una nueva identidad en su alter ego americano, 'Lucy', y se enamora de su profesor John (Hartnett). Cuando John desaparece repentinamente, Setsuko decide buscarlo, una aventura que la llevará hasta el sur de California.
Mifune: The Last Samurai
Self - Actor
An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.
The Emperor in August
General Korechika Anami
In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meeting has continued through days and nights, but a decision cannot be made. The U.S. drops atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. General Korechika Anami is torn over making the proper decision and the Emperor of Japan worries about his people. Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki leads the cabinet meeting, while Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu can't do anything, but watch the meeting. At this time, Major Kenji Hatanaka and other young commissioned officers, who are against Japan surrendering, move to occupy the palace and a radio broadcasting station. The radio station is set to broadcast Emperor Hirohito reading out the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War.
El niño y la bestia
Kumatetsu (voice)
Kyuta, un niño solitario que vive en el mundo de los humanos, y Kumatetsu, una bestia solitaria que vive en un mundo fantástico establecen una relación de maestro-aprendiz que se irá fortaleciendo con el tiempo. Superando su soledad, se darán cuenta cuánto se necesitan mutuamente. Su afortunado encuentro será el inicio de una aventura más allá de tu imaginación.
A Samurai Chronicle
Toda
A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life.
El mundo de Kanako
Akikazu Fujishima
Cuando Kanako, hija pródiga y alumna intachable, desaparece, su madre no duda en llamar a su exmarido, un policía poco ortodoxo. A medida que la investigación avanza, la imagen idealizada de Kanako se va resquebrajando, dejando entrever que, bajo la excelencia, la chica esconde otra vida, más oscura y secreta.
The Kiyosu Conference
Katsuie Shibata
After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and Tsuneoki Ikeda meet to decide on a successor. The conference would become Japan's first group made political decision. The meeting was known as the Kiyosu Kaigi.
The Terminal Trust
Shinzo Egi
Shinzo Egi is an asthma sufferer who does not want to be place on life support. As a last request, Shinzo Egi asks his doctor Ayano Orii if she could follow his wish. Doctor Ayano Orii is then questioned in a criminal case because of her decision.
Chronicle of My Mother
Kosaku
Basada en la autobiografía del escritor japonés Yasushi Inoue, la historia se centra en un famoso escritor que debe cuidar de su madre, la cual sufre demencia, y con la que no mantiene una buena relación. La hija menor del escritor intercederá para mejorar la relación entre su padre y su abuela.
The Woodsman and the Rain
Katsuhiko
A widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for his help and increasingly starts to rely on him.
Almirante Yamamoto
Isoroku Yamamoto
El filme repasa el papel de Isoroku Yamamoto, el jefe de la armada japonesa responsable del ataque a Pearl Harbour. Se centra en los últimos cuatro años de esta figura histórica y, alejándose de la épica militarista, presenta los dilemas de un personaje que está en contra de una guerra que sabe que su país no va a ganar, pero que asume estoicamente su destino.
Hara-Kiri: Muerte de un samurái
Kageyu
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.
The Last Ronin
Magozaemon Senoo
16 years after the fateful "revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin," involving samurais from the Ako domain who avenged their leader and then commited seppuku (ritual suicide), the sole survivor of that incident, Kichiemon Terasaka (Koichi Sato) traverses the country on a mission. His purpose is to find the families of the fallen samurais and spread the truth of the ronin uprising.
13 asesinos
Shinzaemon Shimada
El ascenso al poder del joven y sanguinario Lord Naritsugu supone una seria amenaza para la paz en el Japón feudal. Simplemente por ser el hermano del shogun, Lord Naritsugu está por encima de la ley, y asesina y viola a su antojo. Afligido por la masacre perpetrada por el sádico Naritsugu, el oficial Sir Doi contacta secretamente con el samurái Shinzaemon Shimada para acabar con Naritsugu. El noble samurái, indignado por la crueldad de Naritsugu, acepta de buen grado la peligrosa misión. Para ello, reúne a un selecto grupo de samuráis, entre los que se encuentra su sobrino Shinrokuro y el devoto aprendiz Hirayama. Juntos, traman una emboscada para atrapar a Lord Naritsugu. Shinzaemon es consciente del peligro que conlleva. Naritsugu va escoltado por una comitiva encabezada por el letal e implacable Hanbei, uno de sus antiguos rivales. Los “13 asesinos” de Takashi Miike es un remake del film homónimo dirigido por Eichi Kudo en 1963.
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
Morisaku Furuta
In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.
Toad's Oil
Takuro Yazawa
The Yazawa family consists of the father Takuro (Koji Yakusho) - who is always busy day trading, charming wife Erumi (Satomi Kobayashi), and teenage son Tetsuya (Eita) - who dreams of becoming an astronaut. The family is also joined by Saburo Akiba (Junichi Sawayashiki), a good-natured teen recently released from a juvenile corrections facility. Then one day Tetsuya falls into a coma from a car accident. A chain of events is set to occur set-off by the father taking a phone call from an unsuspecting girl named Hikari. The father pretends to be his son Tokuya...
Toad's Oil
Director
The Yazawa family consists of the father Takuro (Koji Yakusho) - who is always busy day trading, charming wife Erumi (Satomi Kobayashi), and teenage son Tetsuya (Eita) - who dreams of becoming an astronaut. The family is also joined by Saburo Akiba (Junichi Sawayashiki), a good-natured teen recently released from a juvenile corrections facility. Then one day Tetsuya falls into a coma from a car accident. A chain of events is set to occur set-off by the father taking a phone call from an unsuspecting girl named Hikari. The father pretends to be his son Tokuya...
Ekiro
Det. Yobuno
An employee of a bank goes missing following his retirement from the bank. Veteran detective Yobuno (Koji Yakusho), who is set to retire himself, is charged with the investigating the missing person case. Det. Yobuno quickly finds more mysterious as he delves into the case, but a woman named Keiko Fukumura (Eri Fukatsu) surfaces who may hold the key to case.
Gelatin Silver, Love
Client
The story of a photographer who becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman who lives in the apartment opposite his.
Tokyo Sonata
Robber
Una rutinaria familia nipona empieza a desintegrarse cuando el padre pierde su trabajo en una empresa que parecía tener un buen futuro...
Paco and the Magical Book
Onuki
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?
Walking My Life
Yukihiro Fujiyama
A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovered that he has got terminal lung cancer and will die within half a year. He declines any treatment and decides to go to see some people he has not met for years, to write farewell letters to his family, relatives and friends...
The Sin
A housewife was killed by a falling fire extinguisher, which a boy of seven years dropped from the top floor of an apartment. The offender, however, was not accused because he was too young. Ten years later, a series of murders occur, which target young girls only. It is the boy accused of killing the housewife who comes up in the couse of investigation, while the son of the murdered mother is the witness of a new murder. When the two families of the offender and of the victim meet again, two opposite morals conflict with each other – one is to crack down on the sin beyond the law and another is to disapprove the retaliation.
Seda
Hara Jubei
Basada en una popular novela de Alessandro Baricco. Hervé Joncour (Michael Pitt), un mercader francés del siglo XIX que se dedica al comercio de la seda, está casado con Helene (Keira Knightley). En uno de sus viajes al Japón mantiene un romance clandestino y prohibido con una misteriosa y sensual mujer.
Argentine Hag
Satoru Wakui
After the death of her dearest mother, her serious-minded father goes missing, leaving their only daughter Mitsuko. Six months later, it turns out that he is at Yuri's house, who is rumored to be an eccentric and is commonly known as Argentine hag.
I Just Didn't Do It
Masayoshi Arakawa
Kaneko Teppei es un joven japonés normal y corriente. Trabaja a tiempo parcial, hace vida en Tokyo e intenta descubrir qué le espera en la vida. Finalmente, tras armarse de valor para ir a su primera entrevista de trabajo, es acusado por una joven colegiala de haberla manoseado en el metro. Él proclama su inocencia desesperadamente, pero a la policía sólo le interesa forzarle a hacer una confesión falsa, pagar una multa y cerrar rápidamente el caso. Antes de que se dé cuenta de lo que está pasando, su persistencia en afirmar su inocencia le sumirá en una odisea kafkiana de burocracia judicial.
Babel
Yasujiro Wataya
Ambientada en Marruecos, Túnez, México y Japón. Armados con un Winchester, dos muchachos marroquíes salen en busca del rebaño de cabras de la familia. En medio del silencio del desierto, deciden probar el rifle, sin conocer el alcance de la bala. En un instante, entran en colisión las vidas de cuatro grupos de personas que viven en tres continentes distintos.
Retribution
Noboru Yoshioka
El detective Yoshioka intenta atrapar a un peligroso asesino en serie. La investigación toma un rumbo inquietante cuando sus propias huellas y varios objetos que le pertenecen aparecen en el lugar de los crímenes y hasta en los cadáveres de las víctimas. Todos los que le rodean empiezan a sospechar de él a medida que todo se torna más y más confuso para Yoshioka. Presente y pasado se funden en una especie de mundo paralelo que lo alejan cada vez más de la realidad. (FILMAFFINITY)
Suite Dreams
Heikichi Shindo
New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment and a special dinner planned and yet there is trouble everywhere. An Animal is on the loose, a politician to protect, a prostitute to handle, a bellhop to focus and a few things more.
Memorias de una geisha
Nobu
Japón, 1929. Chiyo, una niña de nueve años, es vendida por sus padres para trabajar en la casa de Geishas de Nitta Okiya. Su hermana mayor Satsu no es aceptada y es enviada a un prostíbulo. En la casa Chiyo conoce a Pumpkin, otra niña que va a ser instruida para ser geisha, así como a las famosas geishas Hatsumomo y su rival Mameha. Los comienzos de Chiyo son duros, pero un encuentro con el que será el amor de su vida, el Presidente, hará que desde ese momento sólo desee convertirse en una famosa geisha para estar más cerca de él.
Lorelei: The Witch Of The Pacific Ocean
Masami Shin'ichi
Drama con tintes fantásticos ambientado en la Segunda Guerra Mundial en el que un submarino que porta un arma secreta trata de evitar el plan de lanzar una tercera bomba atómica sobre Japón
University of Laughs
Mutsuo Sakisaka
1940. Con la guerra llamando a las puertas de Japón, Tsubaki, un autor de comedia, se dispone a presentar ante la censura una versión cómica de Romeo y Julieta. Sus esperanzas de conseguir la aprobación se verán pronto ensombrecidas por la severa actitud del nuevo jefe censor, el hierático Sakisaka, que ordenará una reescritura completa de la obra. Pese al marcado antagonismo entre ambos personajes, el largo tiempo compartido durante las siete visitas que Tsubaki hace a la oficina de Sakisaka acabará acercando a ambos hasta el punto de convertirlos en estrechos colaboradores.
Fireflies: River of Light
Mr. Takiguchi
After finally passing his teacher's exam, Miwa (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) devoted himself to teaching in a rustic primary school. He struggles to get through to his students, until he creates a class project to raise fireflies to fly over it once again. All students, even the reserved girl Hikari (Risako Sugaya), become passionately involved in the project. However, it brings them into conflict with parents and the school, one problem after another stands in his way.
Tokyo: Level One
Governor of Tokyo
Panic occurs when the Governor of Tokyo proposes to attract a nuclear power plant to Tokyo.
The Lakeside Murder Case
Shunsuke Namiki
Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare intensely for a prestigious high school's entrance exam with the help of a private tutor. One night, one of the wives confesses to her husband that she has killed his mistress.
The Hunter and the Hunted
Detective Jin
Doppelganger
Michio Hayasaki
Hayasaki is an inventor working on an Artificial Body. It is not going well and he is stressed out and on the verge of being fired from the research division of his company. His doppelgänger appears to help him out of the rut he has created for himself.
The Choice of Hercules
Atsuyuki Sassa
When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its challenges. Upon arriving in mountainous Nagano, Sassa had to compete with freezing winter temperatures, conflicting opinions between the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and the Nagano Prefectural Police, as well as public opinion to gain entrance to the lodge that held the single woman captive.
Agua tibia bajo un puente rojo
Yosuke Sasano
Yosuke Sasano es un hombre en paro, de unos cuarenta años, al que acaba de abandonar su esposa. Cuando un viejo vagabundo le cuenta que tiene escondido el Buda de oro que robó en un templo de Kioto en una lejana casa situada cerca de un puente rojo, Yosuke decide emprender el viaje en su búsqueda. Cuando llega al lugar no encuentra el Buda pero sí a una extraña mujer que vive en la casa .
Pulse (Kairo)
Ship Captain
Hace tiempo que Michi, Yunko y Yabe no tienen noticias de un amigo. Cuando Michi va a visitarlo a su casa lo encuentra un poco extraño. Aunque él dice encontrarse bien, al poco rato se encuentra colgado del techo. Por otro lado tenemos a Ryusuke, que prueba a conectarse a internet por primera vez, sin mucho éxito. De pronto su ordenador comienza a entrar solo en la red, y aparece una extraña página web, donde aparecen turbadoras imágenes de habitaciones oscuras y finalmente un inquietante mensaje: "¿Quieres ver un fantasma?".
Séance
Sato
Koji y Junco son un apacible matrimonio; él es técnico de sonido y ella tiene poderes extrasensoriales. Un día Koji va al bosque a grabar unos sonidos, sin darse cuenta, una niña que huye de un secuestrador se esconde en su maleta. Pasan los días y la policía pide ayuda a Junco para que les de datos de donde está la niña. Con sus poderes logra descubrir que la niña se encuentra en el maletín, en su propia casa. Pero decide ocultarlo e inicia un juego... (FILMAFFINITY)
Eureka
Makoto Sawai
En un punto indeterminado del Japón, un autobús urbano es secuestrado y sus ocupantes tomados como rehenes. Tras la intervención de la policía, el secuestrador es abatido, pero sólo tres de los pasajeros permanecen con vida.
Dora-heita
A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own misperceptions and prejudices to defeat his enemies and uproot corruption.
Séance
Goro Yabuike
Se llama a un detective experimentado para rescatar a un político secuestrado por un lunático. En un breve momento de incertidumbre, pierde la oportunidad de actuar. Dejando su trabajo y su familia sin explicación, se dirige a un bosque de montaña y se encuentra con un árbol peculiar llamado Carisma.
Jubaku: Spellbound
Hiroshi Kitano
When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to dig, breaking open a money-and-favours scandal that threatens to rock the entire structure of business and government to its core. While the bank's top executives continue to vacillate, a quartet of middle-management reformers, led by straight-arrow Kitano (Koji Yakusho), decide to stage a boardroom coup and install a new, clean management team. With the aid of a hotshot news anchor (Miho Wada) and a hard-nosed prosecutor (Kenichi Endo), heads begin to roll.
Tadon and Chikuwa
A film based on two short stories by Shiina Makoto. Tadon is the story of a cab-driver who spends his days listening to his passengers' conversations. Chikuwa is about a writer who faces a creativity bottleneck.
License to Live
Fujimori
Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is not intact anymore: father, mother and sister live at different places. Yutaka decides to re-open the pony farm that his family once ran.
Bonds
Takaaki Ise / Tetsuro Haga
Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father. His life begins to unravel when a journalist following him takes an interest in the wife of a boyhood chum, and the wife of another close friend takes an interest in Ise. A couple of murders later, Ise/Haga goes on the run and also sets out for revenge.
Yukon
Takayuki Iwabuchi
Takayuki Iwabuchi (Koji Yakusho), a former yakuza member with a tattoo of Kisshoten on his back. Although he has a criminal record, he is currently working as a driver at a hearse transportation company. One day, a young man visits the company and asks Takayuki to transport the body of his fiancé, Sawa (Shinobu Terajima), who had unexpectedly passed away, to her hometown in a rural area of Takamatsu, Shikoku. Takayuki decides to go to Shikoku with the young man, However, the man disappears when leaving to take a call while they are stopped at a rest area near Setoo Bridge. Left alone, Takayuki arrives at Sawa's home village after much searching. He then tells Sawa's bereaved family about the situation at her parents' house. There, he learns of the tradition of posthumous marriage, or 'Yukon', from the village elder...
Cure
Kenichi Takabe
El policía Takabe investiga unos extraños asesinatos. Las víctimas aparecen con una herida de arma blanca en forma de "x" y los culpables son personas totalmente normales sin ningun motivo para haber cometido el asesinato. Takabe empieza a sospechar que algo está influenciando a la gente para matar.
Bounce Ko Gals
Oshima
Filmed somewhat in documentary style, it follows three girls over the span of one day and night in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Jonko runs a group of high school girls involved in paid dating, Raku is a street dancer, and Togo was brought up in the US and back in Japan for one year wants to escape to New York. Their contact with the world of talent scouts and yakuza places them in danger.
La anguila
Takuro Yamashita
Después de ocho años en la cárcel por haber matado a su esposa, a la que encontró en la cama con otro hombre, Takuro Yamashita sale en libertad condicional. Cuando estaba en la prisión captura una anguila, que se convierte en su mascota y única compañera. Yamashita se establece en una pequeña población a las afueras de Tokio y regenta una barbería, presidida por un aquario en el que nada su anguila. Un día conoce a Keiko Hattori, una joven que intenta suicidarse y que le recuerda a su esposa. Poco a poco se van conociendo y terminan enamorándose. Cuando la vida comienza a sonreirle, se encuentra con un antiguo compañero de cárcel. Yamashita comprende que toda la lucha por convertirse en un hombre nuevo podría desmoronarse si su pasado es revelado. Sobre todo, teniendo en cuenta el interés de los excéntricos habitantes del pequeño pueblo, por conocer más del nuevo barbero.
Lost Paradise
Shoichiro Kuki
Kuki is a veteran newspaper reporter who has been shuffled off to a book-development branch and finds escape in an illicit relationship with Rinko. Together they find the passion no longer present in their marriages.
Shabu
Makabe is a yakuza who is addicted to 'shabu' (a slang refers to stimulant drug). He lives as if he wants to destroy himself. He steals a mistress of the boss of a big yakuza syndicate by force. He takes over the yakuza group he belongs to, by killing the old boss. When he tries to use 'shabu' as the main finacial resource of his group, it leads to the serious confrontation with another big yakuza syndicate.
Sleeping Man
Kamimura
Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighbors care for him as new events occur every day.
¿Bailamos?
Shohei Sugiyama
Un hombre de mediana edad que tiene todo lo que puede desear (una buena casa, una mujer que le quiere y unos hijos encantadores) descubre una nueva pasión que ocultará a todos: el baile.
Kamikaze Taxi
Kazumasa Kantake
A young foot soldier in the yakuza seeks revenge when his prostitute girlfriend dies after a session with a high-ranking Japanese politician with a taste for torture. He sets out on a 'kamikaze' mission to kill his bosses and the politician; along the way, he acquires the aid of a taxi driver who has recently returned to Japan after living in South America for several decades and is struggling to cope with poverty and the prejudices of native-born Japanese.
History of Jirocho Shimizu
A historical chivalric drama with tears and laughter, telling the story of Jirocho Shimizu's family, his confrontation with Katsuzo Kurokoma's family, right up to the final battle on the Tenryu River to avenge Ishimatsu Mori.
Osaka Gokudo Senso: Shinoidare
Dark Society in the East
A story about the activities of Southeast Asian Mafia gangs in Shinjuku. Ryosuke Kano is an ex French Foreign Legion soldier and is now a cocaine smuggler and dealer. He is acquainted with Larry, a Japanese American, but he turned out to be an undercover cop from New York.
Crimson Lotus
Sakura and Kenzo are married. Both think they can live a happy marriage, despite the fact that she cannot have children and he does not want to give up her relationship with her lover Yoko.
Bajo la aurora boreal
Genzo
The story of a man and a wolf-dog in East Siberia during the early 1900s.
Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
Es 1945 y un oficial naval es enviado en una misión ultrasecreta a Suiza para comprar uranio para una bomba atómica.
The Great Department Store Robbery
Katsuyo plans her last gang robbery.
Tampopo
Man in White Suit
Un camionero y su compañero prueban la sopa de una viuda, y al ser de las peores que han probado nunca, la cocinera viuda les pide ayuda para mejorar en la elaboración de la sopa. Durante el proceso surgirá entre ellos el encariñamiento con la dulce viuda. Aclamada comedia japonesa que emula el formato de western (alguien acude al rescate de una viuda que necesita ayuda) y con un toque curioso alrededor del disfrute de la comida. Una cinta que tuvo un notable éxito internacional en su día. El director Itami era un presentador de televisión reconvertido en realizador.
The Fir Trees Remain
The 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for his misbehavior during his short stay in Edo. On the next day, his 4 attendants were killed one after another. Sakai Utanokamike, the Rozyu, is turned out to be involved in this scheme, and the aim is to destroy the Date family. Tsunamune's brother Munekatsu Date who is willing to take over the family doesn't know the real purpose of Utanokami and helps him. Munesuku Harada gets to know the whole picture of the incident and takes action alone for the sake of protecting the Date family, leaving his own family. His lonely fight continues for 10 years and he got in danger in Utanokamike's house, and...
The Legend of Sayo
Sayo has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday when she attends a temple festival. On her way back she sees a large cherry tree which is infamous for the legend of dead white horse. When her fiancé returns from war and visits her he comes across a white horse which he takes in. The man also does not see himself engaged anymore as his family has lost its wealth.
Himeyuri no Tô
Ootaka
A remake of the 1953 film of the same name.
Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai. His struggles with his boss, the Shikoku Godfather, and the tumultuous life of his adopted daughter, Matsue, form the backdrop of this epic tale of justice, obedience, and bloody vengeance.
Willful Murder
Journalist
The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and shutdowns. The government says that the president was murdered; the police claim it was a suicide. A quizzical reporter follows the case for years, but the basic question remains unanswered: was the victim killed by members of the burgeoning Communist movement in Japan, or was the death stage-managed by the authorities in hopes of discrediting the Communists?
Anya, la muchacha de la nieve
Young soldier
A la Reina le ha entrado el deseo de tener un ramo de flores, sin embargo, es invierno, por lo que no hay flores bonitas ahora mismo en el bosque. Por eso ofrece una gran recompensa a quien le traiga dicho ramo. Dos hermanastras egoístas envían a una muchacha de buen corazón a los nevados bosques para buscar las flores a la Reina...
Hunter in the Dark
Kuwano
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter-clan conflict. Tanigawa quickly rises in stature in the clan, but finds his boss's enemies almost overwhelming.