Taro Suwa

Taro Suwa

Nacimiento : 1954-08-09, Tokyo, Japan

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Taro Suwa

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Bakuryū Sentai Abarenjā 20th: Yurusa Rezaru Abare
Yokota
Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger 20th: The Unforgivable Abare is an upcoming Japanese tokusatsu superhero movie commemorating the 20th anniversary of Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger TV series.
God Bless You
God Bless You
Roleless
Miyamatsu, who works as a cable-car operator, is also a film extra. Through his different characters he has been living the life of a stranger, only playing that part. Finally he comes face to face with his own life, the one he had lost. Debut film.
Cat and Salt, or Sugar
佐藤茂
Ichiro is a 32-year-old man who has voluntarily become his mother's "pet," retreating from the flow of life suggested by society: university, career, marriage, parenting, home ownership. His quiet life at home (with an alcoholic father) is interrupted when the ex-boyfriend of Ichiro's mother and his "white idol" daughter move in. Under a cramped roof, the five search for happiness.
Bad City
Kensuke Sonomura directs the legendary Hitoshi Ozawa in this ultimate V-Cinema actioner. Kaiko City is plagued with poverty and crime. When a corrupt businessman decides to run for mayor and starts eliminating opponents from the rival mafia, a former police captain serving time for murder is secretly released and put in charge of a special task force to arrest him.
Bldg. N
Urban legend horror film based on the true story of the "Ghost Apartment Incident" that occurred in Gifu Prefecture's Tomika Town in 2000.
Noise
Kenji Suzuki
Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing population and declining industries. Keita Izumi (Tatsuya Fujiwara) begins to produce black fig on Shishikari Island. Because of his well received product, the island is close to receiving a 5 billion yen grant from the government, which is part of the goverment's policy to reinvigorate rural economy. The residents of the island are excited, but their peaceful days changes by the appearance of Mutsuo Komisaka. Keita Izumi and his friends Jun Tanabe (Kenichi Matsuyama) and Rookie Police Officer Shinichiro Moriya are suspicious about him. One night, Keita Izumi's daughter goes missing. Due to that, Keita Izumi, Jun Tanabe and Shinichiro Moriya happen to kill Mutsuo Komisaka. They decide to hide Mutsuo Komisaka’s murder to protect the future of the island and their families. It turns out Mutsuo Komisaka was a psycho killer. Police officers come to Shishikari Island to catch Mutsuo Komisaka.
In the Wake
Baffling serial killings unfold in which the victims are tied up and left to starve. Tone was just released from prison after finishing his sentence for another crime, and he surfaces as a suspect but detective Tomashiro can't nail down conclusive proof.
The Great Yokai War –Guardians–
Sunakakebaba
Kei Watanabe (Kokoro Terada) es un estudiante de quinto grado de primaria que ha heredado la sangre del legendario cazador de yokai. Esto lo convertirá en la persona destinada a combatir a los yokai y así poder salvar el mundo de la destrucción.
NO CALL NO LIFE
Adapted from Kabei Yukako's novel of the same name. After being guided by a mysterious message from the past on a cellphone's answering machine, Umi encounters Mahiro, a delinquent at her school. They gradually come closer, but more messages appearing on the answering machine will unveil past secrets...
Under the Turquoise Sky
Takeshi grew up spoiled in an affluent family. One day his businessman grandfather Saburo sends him to the grasslands of Mongolia where he is to search for a daughter born out of Saburo's relationship with a local woman after the Second World War.
Buzón rojo de la calle Escher
Mutou
El director de cine Tadashi Kobayashi tiene una audición para su nuevo proyecto cinematográfico. Varios actores y actrices peculiares solicitan los papeles, pero la mayoría de ellos terminan trabajando como extras, haciendo que todo se descontrole. En el set, cada uno de los extras comienzan a preguntarse a sí mismos, “¿Qué significa ser un extra?” “¿Y qué significa ser actor?”. Durante la filmación, los pensamientos y sentimientos del director, el equipo y los extras comienzan a surgir.
Stop the Bitch Campaign Reboot
Based on the legenday cult Japanese comic “Stop The Bitch Campaign” by Hideo Yamamoto (“Ichi the Killer”) and Tetsuya Koshiba (“Remote”), a fierce battle between the beautiful high-school girls and the middle-aged man erupts once again.
Stare
Dead bodies with eyeballs ruptured are continuously found. Their direct causes of death are heart attacks and they acted like they were possessed right before their deaths. Mizuki is a university student. Her friend dies in front of her. Meanwhile, Haruo’s younger brother dies. Mizuki and Haruo begin to investigate together. They learn that Eiko holds a key to the mystery. Soon, Eiko's eyeballs rupture and she dies by a heart attack. Before she dies, she mentions the word "Shirai-san.”
The Promised Land
A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in similar circumstances a suspect is identified leading to the accused running away and going into hiding.
Dancing Mary
Municipal Manager
Kenji es el miembro más joven de un equipo encargado de construir un gran centro comercial. Pero, para crear el nuevo complejo, hay que destruir un antiguo local de baile, y cada esfuerzo para echar abajo el edificio es boicoteado por un misterioso poder. De hecho, existe el rumor de que el local está maldito, y el equipo de construcción pensó en contratar exorcistas, pero ninguno de ellos parece encontrar la solución.
Five Million Dollar Life
Mirai Takatsuki is a seemingly normal teenager, but when he was a child his life was saved from a terrible illness thanks to magnanimous donations from the local community that paid for his medical bills. Ongoing media attention and the pressure to excel have prompted Mirai to have suicidal tendencies.
Sadako
Mayu es la encargada de cuidar a una chica que sufre de amnesia. La paciente está bajo custodia policial y es de especial interés para las autoridades. Sin embargo, sus allegados desconocen el porqué de esta situación, e incluso la propia sospechosa ignora los motivos por los que está siendo vigilada 24h. Mientras Mayu se desvive por realizar su trabajo, su hermano, un aspirante a convertirse en un personaje famoso en redes sociales, comienza a darse cuenta de que ha dado con un filón que tratará de aprovechar a toda costa.
My Retirement, My Life
Hiroyuki Aoyagi
Michitaro Sano’s wife passed away 18 years ago. Since her death, he has lived with his daughter Yumiko at their home. Now, Michitaro retires from his work. Yumiko though tells him to start doing housework. Michitaro is also surprised to learn that Yumiko has a boyfriend and is considering marriage. Michitaro is unsure how to handle his sudden abundance of free time. He then attends a local radio calisthenics group session.
Sharaku houmu outotsu tantei-dan
Former detective Gunpei Wakatsuki (Masao Kusakari) and former big thief Otomatsu Sekiya (Takashi Sasano), who live in the luxury elderly housing with care “Sharaku Home”, are a trio of 6th grade elementary school students, Isamu Tachikawa. Meet (Keita Ninomiya), Shota Inoki (Sotora Motomura), Chika Takami (Himena Negishi). One day, a baby is taken away at an obstetrics and gynecology clinic run by Isamu's father, Hiroshi Tachikawa (Takeyuki Yue). During the three minutes his mother went to the kiosk, she disappeared.
Waiting for the Moon
Yumi is a victim when the triple disaster of an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown occur in Japan of 2011. She is a guest of her aunt now. She finds a job at a local bar and works under the owner Sugiya, a man who has amnesia and barely recalls anything except his recipes. The two begin to develop feelings for one another.
The Lowlife
Based on a 2016 novel by Mana Sakura, “The Lowlife” shows the stories of three women who work in Japan’s adult video industry.
Foreboding
Taoka
Miyuki Asakawa tells her colleague Etsuko Yamagiwa that she has a ghost in her home. When Etsuko goes to Miyuki's home, there is only Miyuki's father there. Etsuko becomes worried about Miyuki's state of mind, and she takes Miyuki to the psychiatric hospital where her husband, Tatsuo, works. There, Miyuki receives a diagnosis that she lacks the concept of "family." Later, Etsuko tells Tatsuo that she is not comfortable with Dr. Jirō Makabe. Tatsuo introduced her to Dr. Makabe earlier at the hospital. Etsuko has a feeling of unease about her husband working with Dr. Makabe. One day, Etsuko hears Dr. Makabe state "I came to Earth to invade."
Long Goodbye: Tantei Furui Kurinosuke
Kurinosuke Furui (Ryu Morioka) grew up at an orphanage. He now works as a private detective. One day, he receives a request. The request is to collect money which was stolen by a woman who killed herself. During Kurinosuke Furui's investigation he uncovers a shocking truth.
Laughing Lucky Cats
Haruichi Komatsu
Hitomi Takagi (Fumika Shimizu) and Akako Honda (Rena Matsui) are members of comedy duo “Akako to Hitomi.” The created the comedy duo about 5 years ago, but they are still not very popular. Everyday, they perform manzai to a regular audience in a corner of a small theater. One day, Hitomi and Akako catch a middle school student trying to steal Hitomi’s bicycle. Since then, their fate as a female comedy duo begins to change.
Mr. Long
Tadao
Long es un asesino taiwanés conocido por su habilidad con la espada. Tras fracasar en una misión en Japón, se traslada a un pequeño pueblo donde nadie le conoce.
Shin Godzilla
Tahara : Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications / Disaster Management Division
Godzilla, fuerza destructiva insondable para el hombre, resucita en el Tokio de hoy en día para acosar de nuevo ala civilización. Un país aún atormentado por las secuelas de un desastre natural, experimenta de repente el horror catastrófico de Godzilla. Apremiado por la muerte y la desesperación, Japón deberá encontrar el poder para superar este desafío. Primera película de Godzilla realizada en Japón desde "Godzilla: Final Wars" (2004) de Ryuhei Kitamura, dirigida por Hideaki Anno ("Evangelion") y Shinji Higuchi ("Attack on Titan").
Madly
Masahito - Father (segment "Love of Love")
Madly explores love in all its permutations in six short films from a vibrant group of filmmakers representing Japan, Argentina, the UK, the US, India, and Australia. All forms of love are on display in this anthology. And all manners of feelings expressed from jubilance to depression are done so strongly.
Through Their Eyes
Eiichiro Sumiya
A compelling human drama about the growing social problems and public responsibilities regarding the welfare and ethical treatment of neglected dogs and cats at animal shelters. The story is told through the eyes of tormented vets who are relentless in their efforts to change the system to serve these animals with dignity.
4 / Cat-Nekobun no Yon
A short omnibus created by four young creators on the theme of "drawing the people of Ichii who use a certain station where a cat lives".
Ghost Theater
Sara, es una joven actriz, capaz de llevar el peso de un papel protagonista en una obra de teatro. Rápidamente, se da cuenta que algo o alguien quiere acabar con la producción a toda costa, algo que la pondrá seriamente en peligro.
Areno
'We have to kill him', the wife and her lover thought. When three childhood friends reunite, it doesn't take long before two of them feel the woman's husband is in their way. They push him into a lake, but the boat capsizes and all three are thrown into the water. The lovers reach the shore, but the husband is nowhere. Has he drowned? They decide to wait at a lakeside hotel for his body to be found.
Conquest
A massive yakuza war begins when the most powerful clan in Kansai plans to conquer all control of the country after attacking several headquarters of other clans in Japan and China.
Muga Shozoku
Taku
In the wilderness of Iga, Japan, a young robotics student named, SHIN, ignores the warnings of his sensei, TAKU, and takes it upon himself to unleash the power of an ancient book called MUGA. This mysterious power is also desired by, RYU, of the ONISHI GROUP -- a military tech company that will destroy anything in its way to possess it.
Live
One day, Naoto receives a package. Inside he finds a book, ‘LIVE’. At the same time, he receives an image on mobile phone of his mother being kidnapped and a call from a mysterious man. “If you don’ t want us to inject the killer virus in your mother, find the hints hidden in the novel and head for the goal in the death race!” Naoto starts running to save his mother with the book in his hand.
Adult Drop
Hajime asks his friend Yoshi to set him up with his classmate Ann. Yoshi tries to do this for Hajime, but this just upsets Ann. Yoshi's relationship with Ann is now awkward. Yoshi doesn't know exactly why, but Ann becomes absent from school frequently. One day, during their summer vacation, Yoshi hears that Ann has dropped out of school.
Hana-Dama
Mizuki's father
Transfer student Mizuki is bullied mercilessly by her classmate. Nevertheless, she is always able to maintain her composure. Kirie, who is also bullied, becomes interested in Mizuki and longs for her. The two become close.
Disregarded People
Young man, Yusuke Mamiana, fed up with his life meats a unattractive ugly girl, Kyoko, at his hometown. Out of his impulsive desire, he had a relationship by nearly raping her. They started to live together and gradually feel 'Family' attachment in each other. As time passes, Yusuke starts to think more about 'Happiness' of his family and himself.
Our Highland Hotel
Itakura
Ayumi Aizawa is a lonely young man without a family. He works at Forest Hyde Press Hotel as a cleaner. His deceased grandfather Kenzaburo worked at the same hotel. When his grandfather worked at the Forest Hyde Press Hotel, the hotel was well known for its extreme hospitality. Now, the hotel is nothing more than an ordinary hotel. New manager Ryuuya Sawashiro then attempts to bring the hotel back to its glory days.
Dulce azote (Sweet Whip)
Client of SM club
Cuando Naoko era un estudiante de primer año en la escuela secundaria fue secuestrada y encarcelada por un hombre que vivía al lado. Durante un mes, ella pasó por el infierno. Finalmente, ella mató al hombre y escapó. Ahora como adulta, Naoko es médico especialista en el tratamiento de la infertilidad, pero también tiene otra cara. Naoko es una maestra en un popular club S & M.
Por qué no jugamos en el infierno
Sumita
Ikegami es un gangster que guarda rencor hacia un viejo rival llamado Muto, de cuya hija Himizu siempre ha estado enamorado. Hirata, un director de cine, y un hombre llamado Kouji también se verán involucrados en este enredo.
Case of Kyoko, Case of Shuichi
Kyoko (Sakura Ando) works as an insurance agent. Due to a series of unfortunate events, she brings shame to her family and has to leave her hometown. Shuichi (Tasuku Emoto) killed his drunken father to save his mother. After he is released from prison, he begins to work at a small factory in Tokyo.
Munashiidake (Just in vain)
A story of a married couple, Koji and Shizuko. They have purchased a piece of land to build their new home after being married for five years. Despite Koji's excitement. Shizuko stays calm. One day, Koji receives word that Shizuko has been in an accident. She was found with an unknown man when she was supposed to be traveling with her friends...
Penance
Akiko's father
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.
Los protectores
Taxi Driver
«Mate a este hombre y recibirá 1 millón de yenes como recompensa ». Con esta publicidad publicada en todos los periódicos japoneses, el multimillonario Ninagawa pone un precio a la cabeza de Kiyomaru, El presunto asesino de su nieta. Millones de enemigos potenciales van a obstaculizar la ruta de los policías responsables de escoltar a Kiyomaru hasta Tokio, transformando el periplo en una persecución infernal que lleva al espectador al corazón de un western urbano cuyo final es incierto.
2nd Virgin Road
The story is about Mayumi and a jobless youngster who enters her life. Mayumi is a rape victim, and is often haunted by the painful memories of her past. Mayumi chances upon this youngster, strikes a chord with him, and slowly shares her troubles and past memories.
Kuro
Taizo
Three young people in Tokyo. Kuro is a girl working a part-time job at a bakery. Eito is a photographer. Gou is a theater director. These three individuals meet by coincidence and, as a means to escape reality, begin living together at a deserted inn near the sea.
GACHI-BAN: WORST MAX
Fourteenth instillation in this violent action series about a delinquent youth. A straight-shooting ruffian lets his anger loose at the vileness of a young loan shark. Directed by Motoki Takashi, who has handled numerous films in the series. Hayato (Kubota Masataka), who has earned respect for his fighting prowess at a sketchy modeling agency, starts working as bodyguard for the charismatic delinquent-style model Reo (Arai Atsushi). But, Reo has a dark side of running a loan shark operation, and brutally calls in loans by making female debtors sell their bodies.
Cold Bloom
Nobuo Kimura
Industrial Hitachi City is the location for this post-3.11 drama. Still recovering from the tsunami, Shiori receives news of her husband’s accidental death, which marks the start of a personal recovery that mirrors the town’s for Shiori as well as forgiveness of surviving coworker Takumi.
GACHI-BAN: SUPER MAX
Yanki (Japanese delinquent) Hayato, is on his way with his senpai, (upperclassman) Yocchan to a so-called “resort” job with good pay, food, and housing. Hayato, not being able to commit to work, meets another Yanki who’s trying to work hard and form a family. Meanwhile, Yocchan ends up falling for the lunch lady at the “resort”... Will she be the one for him?
Goku-Oni
The leyend of Yokudo Gokuki
Hayabusa
Chairman Tanabe
May 9, 2003 - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launches its unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa into orbit. Its mission is to collect samples from a near Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa. Hayabusa is scheduled to make contact with the asteroid in November 2005. As the spacecraft approaches its rendezvous date with the asteroid problems arise for the JAXA staff back on Earth.
Himizu
Maa-kun
Cinta sobre un joven obsesionado con llevar una vida normal y corriente. Cuando el mundo a su alrededor comienza a desmoronarse intenta seguir adelante mirándolo de manera positiva, pero cuando las columnas que aguantaban su "normalidad" acaban por derrumbarse, y los malos pensamientos comienzan a aflorar, tiene que resistir las malas tentaciones.
ケータイ刑事 THE MOVIE3 モーニング娘。救出大作戦!〜パンドラの箱の秘密
Into the White Night
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 ...
Cold Fish
Akio Yoshida
Shamoto tiene una pequeña tienda de peces tropicales que le permite una aburrida pero estable vida. Su segunda esposa Taeko, no se lleva muy bien con su hija Mitsuko, y eso le preocupa. Además, él también se siente de algún modo incompleto e insatisfecho con la vida que tiene. Un día, Mitsuko es sorprendida robando en un almacén. Allí se encontrará con un amable hombre llamado Murata que la ayudará a calmar las cosas entre ella y el director de la tienda. Murata también es dueño de una tienda de peces, y entre ellos nacerá una amistad. Mitsuko empezará a trabajar para Murata y vivir en su casa para evitar conflictos con su madrastra. Todo parece perfecto, pero Shamoto hará un sorprendente descubrimiento que puede cambiarlo todo.
Solanin
Billy's Father
Meiko y Taneda son una joven pareja de graduados universitarios que vive en Tokyo. Tras dos años en un aburrido trabajo de oficinista, Meiko decide dejarlo todo y vivir de sus ahorros para intentar buscar su verdadera vocación, y animando además a Taneda a ganarse la vida con su grupo de música.
The Slave Ship
Onimata, Writer
Onimata Kan is famous for two things: a successful career writing S&M erotica, and hosting the erotic gatherings aboard what has come to be known as the Slave Ship, where the main attraction is the auctioning of the services of sexual partners willing to fulfill any desire. So if it's all consensual, there's no harm, right? At least, that's what Onimata believes until he learns that one of the frequent auctionees has gone insane, and that her husband believes the cause is related to a stalker she acquired. Are the activities aboard the Slave Ship somehow to blame? Fearing the answer, Onimata goes to investigate the mysterious Kitagawa, and soon learns that his own writings only hint at the extremes to which some will go.
Rinco's Restaurant
Yama san
After a bad breakup, a young woman returns to her hometown and opens a menuless restaurant. A young woman in her mid 20's becomes so heart broken she loses her voice. To recover, the woman decides to go back to her hometown and stay with her free-spirited mother whom she has not been very close to in the past. The young woman then decides to open a restaurant which accepts only one customer a day, allowing for thoughtful preparation for that customer.
Nora
Yukio Kasai (Sometani Shota) is running through the mountains to escape something, when suddenly he is accidentally hit and knocked unconscious. The man driving is Shigeru, a single father who lives nearby in a small rural fishing town. Shigeru then offers Yukio a strange proposal, whilst he recovers he can ‘help repair a boat’. Yukio is however haunted by nightmares and just when he starts to feel comfortable, his tragic past catches up to him with dire results.
Zero nendai zenkei
Kumiko Hoshizaki’s “Akane Sasu Heya” is the story of Maki, a 20-something temp who is sick of her boring job and life in general. The rather bizarre solution she comes up with is to conceive a child behind her boyfriend’s back. Makoto Nagahisa offers the much more impressionistic “Frog.” The story meanders around a bunch of unrelated characters, using experimental techniques like repeated scenes, hallucinatory visuals, blurred shots and disconnected sounds. Lastly, we have “Bouquet Garni,” a much more conventional work from director Junpei Hatano. The plot is centered on a reporter, the relative of a kidnapping victim, and a woman who is obsessed with the case.
The Quiet Don: A New Chapter Volume 2
Quiet Don Volume 2
The Quiet Don: A New Chapter
Mild-mannered Shizuya Kondo lives a normal life, occupied with his dreary office job as a women's underwear designer. But, he also happens to be the only son of the leader of the biggest criminal organization in the Kanto region... and when his father is murdered by a rival gang, Shizuya is forced to become the new head of his yakuza family! Working as a businessman by day and a yakuza boss by night, Shizuya finally begins to realize his true potential. But, things take an unexpected turn when Akemi, his secret office-crush, is suddenly kidnapped.
I’m a Cat Stalker
Haru works at a part-time job for a bookstore. Her dream is to become an illustrator and she also loves cats. One day, after a cat named Chibutomu disappears from the bookstore Haru canvasses the neighbourhood in search of Chibutomu.
SAYAKA: THE CUTE & CARELESS GIRL
Teacher
Una voluptuosa estudiante cree que sus mayores problemas pasan por el crecimiento de sus pechos y una de sus manos a la cual no puede controlar cuando quiere tocarla impúdicamente en momentos inoportunos. Pero no tarda en darse cuenta que la llegada de una nueva estudiante, también voluptosa, y con una actitud muy varonil y sexualmente desenfrenada, pondrá las cosas patas para arriba tanto para ella como para sus mejores amigas.
Be Sure to Share
Shopkeeper
Shiro's struggle with his father's cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he must communicate his love and admiration for him before it's too late. A series of flashbacks reveals their relationship over time, and the trouble Shiro faced connecting to his strict father who was also his teacher and soccer coach. With a consuming secret of his own, Shiro, now in his late twenties and about to get engaged, must eventually learn how to share the pain of it with his loved ones.
Honto Ni Atta Kowai Hanashi 2008 Summer Special
Summer 2008 special of Scary True Stories (Honto Ni Atta Kowai Hanashi).
End Call
The Devil has a phone number, and if you call him on your mobile phone at midnight, he will grant your wish. In return however, he will control your life for the duration of the call.
Onechanbara: The Movie, Chanbara Beauty
Dr. Sugita
La historia transcurre en un escenario donde una empresa llamada la Corporación D3 con los experimentos del Dr. Sugita han convertido a casi toda la población en zombies. La protagonista es Aya, una guapa en bikini y con katana mágica que busca venganza en su hermana Saki, quien celosa de ella, mató a su padre, miembros del clan Imichi, y ahora está aliada con el Dr Sugita. Junto a ella viaja el gordo Katsuji, también en busca de venganza contra el Dr Sugita. A ellos se une Reiko, otra guapa armada y diestra de la recortada que ha perdido a su hija transformada en zombie y busca venganza. Los tres se dirigen hacia el edifico-fortaleza de la Corporación entre batallas y peleas con los zombies. Mientras, el Dr. Sugita sigue con sus experimentos con zombies y en la busqueda de sangre del clan Imichi para conseguir el zombie perfecto
Fighting Express Vol 1: Battle Run
They are "Behind-the-Scenes Delivery Specialists" who can deliver any kind of packages to anywhere in Japan. They run through dangerous areas and they fight with anyone standing in the way! Akane (acted by Yuka Kosaka), a would-be journalist, is chased by a shady black-suited group as she has an evidential document which can prove an assembly man's crime. So she runs to FIGHTING EXPRESS, which can deliver packages with special secret circumstances.
The Machine Girl
Kimura Gang Member
La vida de una joven estudiante japonesa es destrozada cuando un grupo de ninjas Yakuza acaba con su familia. Tras perder su mano, la reemplazó con diferentes armas de fuego y ahora busca venganza...
Seda
Japanese Trader #2
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.
Humming Life
There are many different kinds of lives in this world. When everyone is gone only the afterimage remains.Ai has only recently came to Tokyo. In this unfamiliar city she is a little bit upset. One day lead by a mysterious stray dog she finds a letter inside a hole in the tree trunk. Tomohiro who works night hours at a nursery hadleft it there. Ai being encouraged by this letter writes a letter back and leaves it in the hole. This was the beginning of their strange correspondence.
Sixteen
A story of a 16-year old girl who comes to Tokyo aspiring to be an actress.
Akai bunka jutaku no hatsuko
Fujii
15-year-old Hatsuko (Higashi Ayu) lives with her elder brother in a humble town house. Their mother died when they were young, and the father disappeared. The brother (Shioya Shun) left high school before graduation to work at a factory, but spends their meager house-keeping money on adult entertainment. Hatsuko, who is poor and has no friends, finds emotional support in Mishima (Sano Kazuma), a boy in her class, who helps her with her study to go to a high school together. However, Hatsuko's brother causes trouble at the factory and gets the sack. Hatsuko gives up her dream of going to high school. In spring, the modest relationship continues between Mishima, now a high school student, and Hatsuko who works at a biscuit factory. One day, Hatsuko's long-gone father reappears. In a drunken frenzy, he sets fire to the house to go and rejoin the mother, leaving Hatsuko without a place to live. Hatsuko leaves the town on her own, drawing strength from the promise of marriage with Mishima.
Saru phase three
Minoru is diagnosed with cancer and undergoes surgery, but it is soon discovered that the cancer has spread to his lymphatic system and he is prescribed anti-cancer drugs. He is soon plagued by severe side effects such as vomiting, skin rash, and hematuria, and begins to distrust hospitals.
Christmas on July 24th Avenue
Bookshop Owner
Sayuri Honda (Miki Nakatani) claims she has no interests in love affairs. She refuses to take things as they are for she fancies her harbor town of Nagasaki as Lisbon, Portugal. But on Christmas, encouraged by the season of romance, she tries to materialize her once-in-a-lifetime love with the man of her dreams.
Cat-Eyed Boy
A film adaption of the manga Cat Eyed Boy by famous horror manga artist Kazuo Umezu. The film follows a strange boy with cat like features.
Strawberry Shortcakes
Client
Follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with the responsibilities in their lives.
Costume Players
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…
Death Penalty 4
Inside the police there is a special investigation for consecutive police motorcycle cases. Yuji's investigation reveals that homeless people and girls are suffering from the murder game!
Be The World For Her
Love story between a cloned boy and bullied high school girl.
Reincarnation
Projectionist
Treinta y cinco años atrás, un profesor de universidad mata a once personas en un hotel y lo graba en vídeo. En la actualidad, un director de cine decide filmar una película sobre lo acontecido y para ello contrata a la reconocida actriz Sugiura Nagisa. Las pesadillas sobre lo ocurrido en el pasado serán sólo el inicio de una serie de inquietantes acontecimientos.
Death Penalty 2
A shocking, problematic work that dares to confront the corruption of modern Japan!
Heart, Beating in the Dark
Shimamoto
This new version of Nagasaki's Yami utsu shinzô (1982) is neither a remake nor a sequel. It is both those things, and at the same time it is also a documentary, a portrait of the consequences of passing time, and an occasionally very funny reflection on what the hell the point is of all this filmmaking business anyway. Shigeru Muroi and Takashi Naito, back then young hopefuls willing to take chances, now among the most established and recognisable actors in Japan, return to play the roles they assumed in the 1982 film, each of their characters having gone their own way. Alongside, another young couple (Honda and the ever-brilliant Eguchi) find themselves in the exact same situation as their older counterparts 25 years earlier. Their paths cross, an opportunity arises: for the elder two to redeem part of their own lives, for the younger couple to find a helping hand in their darkest hour.
Christmas in August
A Japanese remake of the South Korean film of the same name.
Sayonara Midori-chan
Naive office girl Yuko supports her blithe big city lifestyle with a part-time job at a neighborhood cafe. Attracted to her manager there, the shallow but charming Yutaka, she willingly succumbs to his lascivious advances only to discover afterward that he already has a girlfriend by the name of Midori. Even so, Yuko's feelings for Yutaka continue to grow regardless of his aloofness. Before long she finds herself reluctantly cajoled into working as a hostess in a small karaoke bar. Fatalistically accepting his dalliances with flames old and new, she perseveres not so much in hope of a more substantial relationship, but rather out of fear of losing him. There are other men out there waiting for her -- kinder, more considerate and eagerly available. But for Yuko, there is only the non-committal, yet torridly magnetic Yutaka. Why him? Not even Yuko seems to know the answer.
Wet Red Thread
Shigeru meets Ichimi at a club and they get involved. Her yakuza husband complicates matters.
Rampo Noir
Temple Priest (segment "Mirror Hell")
Mars Canal - Within absolute silence, a naked man wanders through a dark and depressing landscape recalling the excruciating details of his last encounter with his former lover. Mirror Hell - When a series of women are discovered with their faces burnt and skulls charred, a young detective investigates, discovering that a unique hand mirror is always found at the scene. Caterpillar - A war hero returns home with no limbs and only his eyesight remaining. His beautiful wife, tired of taking care of him, turns to torturing her crippled husband for amusement. Crawling Bugs - A sexy actress is returning home from a successful night on stage, until her limo driver decides that she should be coming home with him.
Meatball Machine
Capable of making bio-mechanical weapons out of human flesh, alien parasites grotesquely invade the Earth, turning their hosts into maniacal killers who seek and destroy each other to the bloody death! And yes, it s also a human love story, even though the budding romantics are infested with slimy, tumor-like globules.
The Killer Angel Revenge
Stop the Bitch Campaign: Hell Version
Yasuoka
In Tokyo, prostitution in the name of "Enjo Kosai" is in fashion among some high school girls. A mysterious man Kuni lament such girls but cannot deny a strong desire for them. He punish the girls by having sex with them without paying them. He calls this operation "Stop the Bitch Campaign" for public justice. Working in a sex trade shop where abnormal people are satisfied with their lust. Aoi tries to find out the man who raped her desperately in the past. One day, Aoi meets Kuni.
Death Penalty
Detective Yasagure, who has deviated from the organization, uncovers the shameful part of the police and knocks out the corrupt organization.
Zero Woman 2005
Zero Section Boss
The Metropolitan Police Department '0'section, known as an organization in the police department that investigates a closed case. Well-trained detective in the '0' section, Ray, is looking for her memory that was lost during the training, while also investigating a human traffic which young woman being a victim. One day, classified killer virus was seized by rising terrorists. To investigate this case, public safety sent Sarah Kodama who specializes in molecular biology and computer, to work with Ray but Ray refuses to work with Sarah. Sarah was curious about mysterious Ray, she starts to collect Ray's information and goes to see Ray's former boss, Asami. However, the man who appeared in front of Sarah was an assassinator who contemplates destruction of '0' section. What happens to Sarah...!? What is in Ray's lost memories!?
Believer
Jam Films 2
Jam Films 2 features 4 short films by different Japanese directors.
Premonición
Kôchô no Koe (voice)
Hideki Satomi, inmerso en la pantalla de su portátil, viaja por la carretera con su mujer Ayaka y su hija Nana. Después de horas conduciendo, necesita hacer una llamada urgente y deciden retroceder a la única cabina telefónica que hay en kilómetros. Se le hace tarde a la familia y al llegar al lugar ya es de noche. Hideki se apresura, pero se llevará una desagradable sorpresa cuando entre en la cabina. En ella, encuentra una vieja hoja de periódico en la que inexplicablemente una noticia anuncia la muerte de su hija Nana atropellada por un camión, en ese mismo sitio y en ese mismo instante...
IKKA
The family of 20-year-old Ohta is celebrating his birthday in a restaurant. What was supposed to be a happy familiar reunion turns into a big mess.
The Last Coffin
A strange crossword puzzle starts circulating amongst Chiri's friends, and they soon begin getting murdered one by one in horrifying ways. At night, Chiri can seemingly view their deaths in her dreams, causing her to lose sleep. Depressed and confused, she wanders into an old orphanage where she spent her childhood and uncovers a long-forgotten link to her past that may help her unravel the mysterious and tragic events occurring around her.
Estupor y temblores
Monsieur Saito
Adaptación de una novela de Amélie Nothomb. Amélie es una joven belga, soñadora y romántica, que regresa al Japón, donde pasó parte de su infancia, para trabajar como traductora en una gran empresa. A pesar de la fascinación que siente por el país, el extraño ambiente y las incomprensibles reacciones de sus jefes la desconciertan hasta tal punto que empieza a cometer errores en el trabajo.
Tales of Terror from Tokyo: Volume 1
An anthology series based on stories collected throughout Japan, mainly by writers Hirokatsu Kihara and Ichiro Nakayama.
Alter Ego
Yasunori Takimoto
Three aspiring young Japanese models are on their very first fashion shoot at an abandoned school one hot summer day. Without warning, strange events begin occurring around the set that causes the models and photo crew to question their sanity, as one by one they begin to die agonizing and painful deaths that are seemingly caused by none other than themselves.
Demonlover
Japon - Avocat #1
Diane trabaja para el Volf Group, una multinacional que está a punto de comprar una firma japonesa (Tokyo Anime), que está revolucionando el mercado con sus dibujos animados porno en 3-D. Una de las dos compañías que se disputan los derechos de difusión por Internet del material recién adquirido por Volf contrata a Diane como espía industrial. La otra compañía está involucrada en varias websites ilegales dedicadas a la ultraviolencia y la pornografía. Diane pronto se verá sumergida en una trama de amenazas y enrevesados intereses.
Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete
Convenience store manager
Versión en imagen real de la novela de Yoshikazu Takeuchi, que no tiene ninguna relación con el celebrado largometraje animado de Satoshi Kon. Es la historia de una joven japonesa que busca triunfar en el mundo de la música.
Yumeko's Nightmare
There's no limit to what you can see in your dreams...
Dark Water
Boss of Yoshimi Matsubara
El fantasma de una escolar acecha a una mujer divorciada y a su joven hija tras mudarse a un viejo edificio.
Dark Water
Kono
El fantasma de una escolar acecha a una mujer divorciada y a su joven hija tras mudarse a un viejo edificio.
Last Scene
Young film star Ken Mihara is about to fall from stardom. His rise as a celebrity is solely credited to his onscreen counterpart, Keiko, who recently announced her retirement from acting in order to get married. Feeling frustrated and helpless, Ken turns to alcohol as he begins to provoke fights, attempts to lure a girl into bed, and argues with his wife, who came to visit him at the studio. All she says is thank you and leaves Ken puzzled. Ken Mihara, once a budding young star, takes a job as an extra. Although he's past his prime, he still manages to infuse a young filmmaker with the motivation to pursue her dreams as a director.
Fiel a sí misma
Restaurant owner
Mitsuko, a thirty-something Japanese secretary, lives a very simple life devoid of ambition. She has an affair with Eiji, a rich, arrogant and newly divorced businessman who is intrigued by her retiring personnality but she quickly breaks up as he repeatedly tries to make her change her lifestyle and values. While Eiji ponders the reasons of the breakup, Mitsuko falls for one of her neighbours, a young slacker who has the same approach to life as her. But Mitsuko's new lover is fascinated by Eiji's power and social status... A triangle that will inevitably leave one of the characters "unloved".
Stop the Bitch Campaign
Tokyo’s Valentine Call is a special kind of phone club. Older salarymen pay to wait for calls from teenage girls, discreet meetings are arranged, and handfuls of yen are exchanged for a quick session of enjo kosai, or paid sex with a high school girl. Plenty of girls are doing it—some to make money for fancy, fashionable clothes and accessories, others to set a trap to rob and brutalize the old perverts. But the Valentine Call staff, horny young Ogisu and the vaguely sinister, makeup-coated Mr. Kuni, have a nasty plan of their own. Listening in on the enjo kosai calls, they conspire to trick the girls into giving them free sex. Mr. Kuni even has a twisted concept behind this scheme. He calls it enboku, his campaign to humiliate the teenage girls, drive them away from prostitution and purify Japan.
A Tender Place
Mizushima
Kasumi is in the midst of an affair with Ishiyama, one of her husband's clients. When Kasumi and her family visit Ishiyama's villa in Hokkaido, she plans to abandon them to be with Ishiyama. The next morning, her daughter Yuka disappears, which throws Kasumi's life into turmoil. Years later, Yuka remains missing, and Kasumi journeys back to Hokkaido with Utsumi, a terminally-ill former detective, and tries to follow any leads she can.
Tomie: Re-birth
Haruo Aoyoma
Young art student Hideo paints an unnerving portrait of Tomie, who whispers that she loves him. Inexplicably, he reacts by stabbing her to death with a painting trowel. Two friends, Takumi and Shunichi, arrive on the scene and help him dispose of the body. To cheer him up, the boys take the unwitting murderer to the nearest bar for a party... but a mysterious girl named Tomie shows up, bearing a few odd physical resemblances to the dead girl in the ground.
Paranoia
An erotic horror starring Tomoko Takabe, where sensuality and fear swirl. Kumi, a clinical psychologist, heads for a villa surrounded by a deep forest. However, murder cases begin to occur one after another in an isolated villa where communication equipment is destroyed.
虜 極妻の性
The Spirit of the Dead
Anyone who touches the doll will be cursed by the "corpse spirit". Will you be slaughtered? Or will you be released from the haunting? The game of survival for life begins!
Zombie Snake
Inose
A family are haunted by a Hebi Onna, a fabled demonic undead Snake Woman.
Chaos
A man gets involved in a kidnapping scheme with the wife of a wealthy businessman. She lets herself be tied up and confined in his house while he sends the ransom demand. When he returns home that night, however, he finds her laying dead on the floor. In a panic he buries her body deep in the woods and tries to return to his ordinary life. One day, he thinks he spots her walking down the street. Is his mind playing tricks on him, or has she somehow returned from the grave?
Hysteric
In this startling psychological thriller from Japan, Mami (Hijiri Kojima) is a teacher who meets Tomo (Koji Chihara), a psychotic criminal with a short temper and no visible means of support. Amour fou blooms between them, and a year later they're living together, with Mami taking part as Tomo abducts, tortures, and kills one of their neighbors. Eventually the cycle of crime goes too far for Mami and she leaves Tomo, but several years later, he arrives at her home to disrupt her life with her new husband. Hysteric was directed by Takahisa Zeze, who previously received critical acclaim for the film Kokkuri. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Another Heaven: La puerta del Infierno
Taguchi-kanshiki
Un par de policías de Tokyo están investigando un espantoso asesinato: después de matar a la víctima, el asesino abrió el cráneo y guisó su cerebro. A medida que tratan de localizar al asesino, descubren que, literalmente, todo el mundo es sospechoso. ¿Van a llevar el terror a su fin, o formarán parte de él?
Ju-on 2 (La maldición 2)
Kamio
El fantasma de Kayako sigue al acecho. Tatsuya Suzuki, un agente de bienes raíces, le pide a su hija Kyouko que vaya a la casa en la que Kayako y Kobayashi fueron asesinados (y donde también se produjo la desaparición de la familia Murakami). Kyouko logra ver el fantasma de Kayako y esto le da motivo para iniciar su propia investigación sobre los hechos, llegando a la conclusión que Kayako fue muerta en la casa de Kobayashi. Tatsuya vende la casa encantada al matrimonio de los Kitada.
Crazy Lips
After her brother is accused of murdering four people, his sister, desperate to prove his innocence, goes to a psychic for help. The price they ask, however, is far more than she expected, and the answers they give her are nothing she could ever have imagined. And what is the FBI doing investgating a murder in Japan?
Ju-on (La maldición)
Kamio
Primera de las adaptaciones de Takashi Shimizu sobre la historia de la maldición (ju-on), que se editó en video. Ju-On es la maldición del que muere presa de la rabia. Ésta se concentra y actúa en los lugares donde vivió la persona. Los que la encuentran mueren y nace una nueva maldición. El pequeño Toshió no va a clase últimamente, por eso su profesor Mr. Kobayashi decide ir a su casa. Toshio está solo, en medio de un caos total. Sus padres no están y el profesor asume que han salido de compras. Pero en esta casa hay más de lo que se ve a simple vista. Esta familia no es exactamente lo que llamaríamos una familia normal.
Uzumaki
Yasuo Goshima
En Kurozu-Chou, un pequeño pueblo de Japón, Kirie se encuentra con el padre de su novio que graba en silencio un caracol. La obsesión del hombre con las espirales se vuelve cada vez más extraña, terminando en su suicidio en una lavadora que convierte su cuerpo en una espiral. Pronto otros habitantes se vuelven poseídos con diferentes formas de espirales.
Psycho Doctor
Yoshioka Gynecologist is a women’s clinic that has a good reputation in the neighborhood. The medical examination by Dr. Yoshioka was trusted by many patients. However, Yoshioka, who collapsed due to too much overwork, became a wheelchair, and now Goro Kuroda and Yoshioka’s wife Eri have taken over the hospital. Goro and Eri are enthusiastically examining today. However, Kuroda had a serious secret.
Sleeping Bride
Sleeping Bride is the story of a girl, Yumi, who since birth, has never been awake. A boy called Yuuichi finds the girl in the hospital while he is a patient there. A nurse remarks that the girl is 'Sleeping Beauty', and Yuuichi believes that a kiss from a prince will wake her, just like the story. Yuuichi returns to see Yumi every day, says 'Wake up, I'm the prince' and kisses her. Ten years later he restarts his daily ritual to see Yumi, one day she wakes up.
Currency and Blonde
A university professor's secret passion: a fetish for "blonde hair." His fantasies gradually escalate into reality.
Maneater
A young man suspects that his new lover is cheating on him. All is not what it seems.
Barren Illusion
In a near future where allergies have become an epidemic, music producer Haru half-heartedly dates post office clerk and mail thief Michi. He searches for violent ways to reactivate his life, she dreams of escaping abroad; both volunteer to test a new drug which may provide a cure.
Anarchy in Japansuke
A middle-aged man walks up to young man who is sitting under a tree and shoots him. The film then flashes back to 1981, where a young woman steals a car with a baby strapped inside. She decides to raise the child as her own, and teaches him to shoplift from stores while she works as a prostitute. She strikes up a relationship with a convenience-store clerk, and the two eventually settle down together.
The Accomplice
This hard-boiled action starring Naoto Takenaka is directed by popular manga artist Kazuhiro Kimchi. 8 years ago Brazilian mafioso Carlos had brought the Japanese yakuza organization to its knees. He breaks out of prison while being transported back to Brazil and then begins to seek to get even with the organization.
Adrenaline Drive
Shimada
A gas leak explosion at a yakuza hideout provides a shy nurse and a rental car clerk with the opportunity to take a briefcase full of money. A cross-country chase ensues.
The ring 2 (El círculo 2)
Kadokura Keiji
Una mujer está investigando la misteriosa muerte de su novio, cuando le llegan los rumores de una cinta de video maldita según la cual toda aquella persona que la ve muere una semana después. La pista la lleva hacia la ex esposa del fallecido y a su hijo, pero hay un problema: están desaparecido
Shikoku
Oda
Years after moving to Tokyo with her parents, Hinako returns to her hometown in rural Shikoku. She soon learns that her childhood friend, Sayuri, died several years ago and that Sayuri's mother, who used to perform seances and exorcisms, has gone almost insane with grief. After seeing Sayuri's ghost several times during the night, Hinako consults with some local experts on the paranormal and discovers that Sayuri's mother has something planned for her daughter...
License to Live
Old Man
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.
The Outer Way
The cop Himuro is picked as scapegoat by his superiors because of their own involvement in sokaiya gangster practices.
Portrait of the Beast
The man was called the "Manslayer Demon. One day, he stabs a rival gang member to death in the dark. A rookie female cameraman happened to capture the moment. The man was sentenced to five years in prison for the scoop footage and is tossed about by the passage of five years. Gradually, the man is forced to leave his home, but he soon regains the eyes of the "beast" he once was...
Eyes of the Spider
Yakuza Boss
Nijima, a white-collar worker, finds the man responsible for his young daughter’s murder. He tortures and interrogates the man, who maintains his innocence, before killing and burying him. He returns to his ordinary life feeling listless and hollow, until he meets an old friend who introduces him to his hapless band of hired killers.
Dirty Maria
Murakami's partner Mayumi has gone missing. He fears that she could have run off with another guy or gotten into difficulty by involving by herself with a 'telephone relationship club', a solution which hooks up strangers trying to find easy, anonymous sex, no concerns asked.
Dogs
A tough woman is dragging a weaker man deeper and deeper into crime. Woman cop Miki is chasing a wanted man when she stumbles on a crashed car and sees the driver, Koichi, ignite spilled petrol to kill himself and his passenger. She drags Koichi to safety, but the passenger dies. Miki says nothing to challenge the inquest finding of `accidental death', and when she visits Koichi in hospital he begins to understand that her complicity in his crime implies a sexual invitation. But a gumshoe has photos of the crash, and the only way to stall his blackmail is to kill him, the first of several murders...
Cure
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.
An Obsession
Detective Ichii
Police detective Sosuke is shot down while chasing down a suspect. While he is unconscious, his gun is stolen. He recovers, but loses his wife and resigns from the police force. All of a sudden, his lost gun used in a series of crimes.
Wild Life
Man in pachinko parlour
An ex-boxer working for a game parlor owner gets caught up in a complex blackmail operation he doesn't understand. Before long he's caught between two yakuza bosses and a mysterious thief who motivation is unknown. Add in the boss' daughter who has a crush on him and watch him struggle to make sense of it all and come out alive.
The Revenge: A Visit from Fate
Drug Dealer
Sho Aikawa plays a police detective whose dark personal history makes it impossible for him to stay within the limits of the legal system. But he is not just a detective; he is also a husband who has to explain to his wife how he got blood on his sleeve. And the criminals he pursues turn out to be as imperfect and oddly human as he is-and just as determined to protect their own families. This is the first of Kurosawa's films to pay homage to 1970s American gunslingers like Dirty Harry and reinvent them for modern Tokyo.
Two Punks
Centering on a young drifter almost casually drawn into violence--a crime drama about a boy and a man equally ill-equipped for criminal life and straight society. Neither wants to be a Yakuza, but normal life presents problems.
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Hero
Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a brother and sister who want to drive a local yakuza gang member out of their neighborhood.
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Nouveau Riche
A duo get mixed up with a girl who finds a trunk load full of heroin.
Helpless
Yasuo is a gangster just released from jail. Believing his boss double-crossed him, enraged Yasuo is on his way to find the boss. But before setting out for the dangerous trip, Yasuo asks Kenji to take care of his mentally challenged sister, Yuri, and a mysterious black bag.
Door III
Miyako is a frustrated insurance saleswoman stuck in a major dry spell. She tries every trick in the book, including aggressive flirting, which gets her plenty of gropers but no buyers. One day while venturing down a narrow stairwell, she injures her ankle and happens upon Mitsuru who works for some mysterious foreign company. Decked out in high goth style -- complete with long inky black hair and mascaraed eyes -- Mitsuru cuts quite an odd figure, yet his seductive though menacing ways make him difficult for Miyako to resist. Escorting her to his office to treat her ankle, Miyako notices that his all-female staff seem more glassy-eyed and soul-deadened than the average office workers. In fact, they seem almost like zombies. Later, weird things start happening. Mitsuko finds vomit on her doorstep, she seems to be tailed by a shadowy woman in a red dress, and most strikingly, she finds herself utterly powerless against Mitsuru's advances.
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Gamble
Having lost everything to horse racing, Yûji accidentally gets 10 million yen. But this sum belongs to a Yakuza.
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Loot
Nishi
Yûji and Kosaku are hired to track down an old man. But when he suddenly dies, his granddaughter surfaces with a map to his buried fortune, which the yakuza and a dirty cop are determined to find.
A Weapon in My Heart
A detective and his partner track down a call girl with information about a drug cartel. After taking her into custody, they are attacked by cartel members. The detective and the woman manage to escape, but they are soon hounded by a professional hitman hired to eliminate them and recover the heroin stolen by the woman.
Forbidden Island
Rei, a beautiful psychotherapist confronts a crazy cult evil group, known for their brainwashing methods.
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist
Two petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members, fortunately they are rescued by a kindly Kindergarten teacher.
Summer Memories: An Abnormal Happy Killer
OV version of the comic "Summer Memories" based on Naoki Yamamoto. Kawanaka (acted by Takuji Suzuki), who was arrested in another case, started talking about the murder school girls. Detective Kuroda is gradually at the mercy of Kawanaka's madness...
Welcome Home
Detective
Yuriko, once a concert pianist, now practices home-making while husband Takashi stays out late with co-workers, leaving her to decay into severe mental illness.
Zero Woman: Final Mission
Fugitive
A famous businessman's links with organized crime are looked into by the Zero Division of the Tokyo Police, with the investigation being headed by a highly trained, extremely violent and very beautiful female officer. When not having shoot-outs with the crime syndicate thugs trying to kill her, she spends most of her time in her apartment, wearing lingerie and taking showers. A sub-plot involves the businessman's S&M-obsessed daughter.
N45゜
Ringo
Omnibus film, set in a fictional town at 45゜N latitude: Wonder Rubbish; Pao-san to no fukushu; Jonetsu no koya; Kaze wa, dotchi ni fuite iru
Yakuza Taxi
Nojima
The Yakuza clan Inoshika decides to help a small family business, Taxi Tanaka, lured by the clan Jinryûkaï and deeply in debt.
Wild Side
In four chapters, the film anatomises the chaotic life of a radio agony uncle.who is having simultaneous affairs with a sado-masochistic call-girl and the wife of an aggrieved tour-bus driver
The Guard from the Underground
Yoshioka
One of the contemporary masters of Japanese film, Kiyoshi Kurosawa here fashions a dark tale that is both a sharp satire of corporate life and a B-movie thriller. A former sumo wrestler now working as a security guard goes on a murderous rampage in the company that's employed him.
Wordholic Prisoner
A wordholic man, acting as the chief editor by a certain publishing company, is confined by the writer who wishes to publish.
The Enchantment
Detective
A Tokyo psychiatrist is hoping to better his career by marrying the daughter of a prominent doctor. The match is threatened however when an attractive but very troubled tourist guide comes to him for consultation...
People of Twilight
Disco manager
SEARCH
A man who has lost his memory returns to his hometown and encounter several people from his past and present.
Wolf: Running Is Sex
First production by Directors' Company. A man stripped bare of all modern values lives in a pure form, like a beast, feeding and satiating his every primal desire whenever they may arise. He takes on a mate, a woman intrigued by his personage or lack thereof, and they live in his den in central Tokyo. As time goes on, we see how this animal clashes with modern man, and the consequences of their coexistance.
Attack on a Bakery
Two young men are hungry, so they decide to rob a bakery. Adaptation of a short story by Haruki Murakami.
The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September
Natsuo
Ryo once rode with a biker gang; ever since his friend Tetsuji died riding in September, he's retired from biking, trying to forget the past.
After That
Film director Shunichi Nagasaki reflects on a near-fatal motorcycle accident that occurred while shooting his commercial feature debut The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September.
Heart, Beating in the Dark
Shimamoto
A boy and girl struggle to understand their place in 1980s Japan, retiring to copulate and probe each other for answers.
Another Side
This is Yamakawa's first feature film in 16mm. A group of university students who grew up in an era of rapid economic growth yearn for "another side" of life as they face romantic conflicts and the suicide of a fellow student.
Back of Happy Street
A journalist, his pyromaniac girlfriend, and an ex-baseball player team up to rip off a gangster, with violent consequences.