Chizuo Hasukabe
Based on the feature-length novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles" written by Arthur Conan Doyle, which is the movie version of the TV drama "Sherlock" broadcast on the Fuji TV series in 2019.
In the present day, the local government of Katori City is in the process of sponsoring a taiga drama about its famous historical figure Tadataka Ino, who is known for being the first person to make a map of Japan in 1821. During the process of of making the drama series, a surprising fact is discovered about the first map. That fact is that Tadataka Ino was not the person who made the first Japanese map.
Shinichi and Chikako Ohara have been married for 50 years. After Shinichi retired from his job, he has stayed at home, which Chikako stresses over. They are on the verge of having a divorce. Meanwihle, their daughter, Aya runs a food truck. She meets Ryota Kanno who is her customer. Ryota recently began working as a funeral undertaker and invites Aya to attend the Oshukatsu Fair. Aya also recommends to her mother Chikako to attend the Oshukatsu Fair. Chikako gets the latest information on preparing for death at the fair, but Shinichi doesn't like that. Their relationship gets even worse.
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.
In August, 1918, Matsuura Ito lives in a coastal village of Toyama with her husband and three children. During the summer, there wasn't much fish to catch, so her husband has been far away from home to catch fish. To support herself and her children, Ito carries goods from ships like the other women in the village. Meanwhile, the residents encounter rising prices for rice. The women are unable to feed their family due to the high prices of rice. The women ask a nearby rice store to sell rice at lower prices, but it fails. The price of rice continues to rise daily. Due to an incident, Ito and the other village women step up to the plate.
HIRAKATA a major apparel manufacturer in financial crisis, decides to launch a new brand to revive its fortunes, and brings back Yuji Fujimura (Masanobu Takashima) who left the company after a previous conflict with the president. and gathers a group of young craftsmen under his wing, including patterner Kyoko Kayeda (Akane Hotta), assistant Seita Yoshino (Hiroki Iijima), and shoemaker Yuriko Kishimoto (Miyuu Nishimura).
Chuzaemon Yoshida
Feudal lord Takuminokami Asano has been led to kill himself due to a scheme by Kozukenosuke Kira. Having no time to mourn his death, samurai Kuranosuke Oishi decides to take revenge on Kira, planning an attack with the help of accountant Chosuke Yato… but they don't have enough in their budget.
Shuzo Fujiwara
Shunnosuke Katagiri is a samurai and a bookworm. He receives a mission to help a daimyo move. With the assistance of Genemon Takamura and Oran, Shunnosuke Katagiri carries out his mission.
Sajima Kageyu
Takeshiro Matsuura was a Japanese explorer who was the first person to document the inner reaches of what is now known as Hokkaido. He explored the area extensively during the mid 19th century and created a map of the island that included parts which had been ignored by earlier cartographers. He visited Ainu communities and compiled records of the large numbers of the population who had been conscripted for forced labor far from their homes. Matsuura suggested the name Hokkaido for the area
Konosuke Hirata
No todos valoran lo suficiente al ama de casa. Cuando un ladrón entra en su casa, el marido y la esposa comienzan una pelea que termina con la mujer marchando de casa a su ciudad natal. Siguen una serie de percances, pasos en falso y errores domésticos. ¿Regresarán ella y su mascota o es el final de un matrimonio de veinte años? En cualquier caso, ya ordenó de anguila y arroz a domicilio para la cena.
High School student Miyui Mashio is really struggling. She can't fulfill her dream of becoming an idol and her parents are always fighting. Suddenly, she finds a genie in a bottle and through an accident, finds herself back in 1991. She realizes she is now going to school with her parents. But the problem is, her parents do not seem to get along - so Miyui will never be born! Miyui learns her father is interested in idols and so together with her mother and other girls she forms the idol group AGS16 to make sure her parents will eventually fall in love.
Konosuke Hirata
Mientras su mujer viaja con unas amigas para ver la aurora boreal, el abuelo aprovecha para retomar antiguas amistades y rememorar viejos tiempos. Después de un pequeño accidente de circulación sin importancia se desatará el caos en la familia Hirata. Sus hijos se reunirán para intentar que deje de conducir pero el abuelo no se lo pondrá fácil.
(segment “Be Kind To Others”)
Six directors picked a favorite song by Japanese punk rock band "The Blue Hearts" and made a short film inspired by the song.
Nobutsuna Nakae
Shinichi Tominaga is a prosecutor, newly appointed to the special investigation division for the Tokyo district prosecutors' office. He is currently busy with a case involving suspicious donations to powerful politician Yohei Tachibana. Shinichi then receives a mysterious message from his friend Samon Kondo. His friend is in charge of space development at The The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The message talks about a scandal related to space development. Samon soon goes missing after sending the message. Shinichi begins to see a connection between the two cases.
Advisor Kenji
Masaatsu Naito successfully completes Sankin-kotai (required ritual to visit the shogun). On his way home, he hears that an insurrection by peasants has taken place in his hometown of Yunagaya. Masaatsu Naito knows that it is a counterattack by Matsudaira. He returns to Yunagaya, but finds that his castle is gone.
Residents in a town have a hard time due to the land tax and forced labor. 9 people, including Juzaburo Kokutaya (Sadao Abe), worry about the future of their town. They then set up a plan to save the town. The plan is to lend large amounts of money to han (historical term for the estate of a warrior) and distribute the interest annually to the residents, but if they're caught they will lose their lives.
Konosuke Hirata
Un matrimonio lleva casado 50 años, al llegar el cumpleaños de ella el marido le pregunta qué desea como regalo a lo que ella contesta que quiere el divorcio... El anuncio crea el caos en la familia.
Section Chief Matsushita
Suzuki Saya tiene 21 años trabaja como empleada en un hotel y no ha sido capaz de olvidar a su primer amor, cuando llega su nuevo jefe, el cual es un tipo antipático, malhumorado, muy estricto con ella y siempre la regaña, entre, poco a poco el empieza a enamorarse de ella y se confiesa, podrá dejar Suzuki de lado a su primer amor y amar de nuevo?
Tetsuo Sawaki
Eiko Yagami (Ryoko Yonekura) is a "Marubo", a unit of Ueno Central Police Station's Organized Crime Division which deals directly with organized gangs to try and keep the peace. However, Eiko has some sidelines: she's a moneylender to her fellow police officers without charging interest in return for information and is also willing to do the odd side job for those on the criminal side for the money. One day, Kasumi (Riho Takada), who is the daughter of Senma-gumi gang's leader (Toshiyuki Nishida), is found stabbed to death. As this threatens to pit gang against gang, Eiko and the police have to hurry and find her killer.
Advisor Kenji
During the reign of the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Yunagaya Domain in the Tohoku region is a small han. But at the han, there is a gold mine. Suddenly, Masaatsu Naito of Yunagaya Domain receives an order to perform Sankin-kotai within 5 days. Sankin-kotai is a custom that requires the daimyo to visit the shogun in Edo. Unfortunately, the time needed to visit the shogun in Edo for Masaatsu Naito is 8 days. Masaatsu Naito also learns he received the order because a high ranking government official wants the gold mine. Also, the expense for Sankin-kotai is high and the Yunagaya Domain is such a small han that it seems impossible to complete. Nevertheless, Masaatsu Naito begins an unexpected operation to complete Sankin-kotai in 5 days.
Four people decide to travel to Hunza, Pakistan to find paradise. Kentaro Tooma works as head of sales for a camera company. One of his clients is Jujo Togashi who owns the shop Camera Togashi. The two men are friends and become captivated by a picture with only a chair sitting in a field of grass. Kentaro and Jujo know of a 4-year-old boy Keisuke through Kentaro's eldest daughter. 4-year-old Keisuke is traumatized from being abused by his mother. Kishiko Shinohara is the owner of an antique shop. Kentaro Tooma has feelings for her.
Koichi Hirayama
Un viejo matrimonio formado por Shukichi Hirayama (Isao Hashizume) y Tomiko (Etsuko Ichihara) viven en una pequeña isla, y a petición de sus hijos van a Tokio a pasar unos días, aunque no les gusta la gran ciudad. La pareja tiene tres hijos: Koichi (Masahiko Nishimura) es el hijo mayor que dirige un hospital; Shigeko (Tomoko Nakajima), la hija mayor, es dueña de un salón de belleza; y el hijo pequeño es Shuji (Satoshi Tsumabuki), que trabaja en el teatro. En esta visita conocerán a la novia de Shuji, Noriko (Yu Aoi), pero lo que parecía que seria una reunión familiar más, se tuerce cuando Tomiko se desmaya en casa de su hijo mayor. Remake de "Cuentos de Tokio" de Yasujiro Ozu.
Ujinaga Narita
In the year 1590, the mighty warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is close to fulfilling his ambition of unifying all of Japan under his banner when he comes across unexpected resistance in the form of a floating fortress known as Oshi Castle. Narita Nagachika, a frivolous hedonistic fellow and unlikely candidate for the position of rebel general, finds himself in charge of defending the castle. His odds? An army of 500 men to combat Toyotomi Hideyoshi's army of 20,000.
Mieko's husband
Mieko (Hitomi Kuroki) is a housewife with some problems. Her husband (Masahiko Nishimura) is indifferent to her and her daughter Sayako (Hiroko Kurisaki) refuses to go to school. One day, Mieko meets Kaori (Tae Kimura) who is divorced. Mieko and Kaori worked at a same company years ago. Kaori tells Mieko that how she was swindled out of money by a man and, because of this, Mieko loans money to Kaori. Due to the loan, Mieko, herself, begins to do part-time work at a convenience store. While at work, Mieko catches a shoplifter Yukimi (Shizuyo Yamazaki) in the convenience store. It turns out, Mieko and Yukimi get along great. Mieko, Yukimi and Kaori decide to go to a karaoke room together. At the karaoke bar, the women hear the song "Smoke On The Water" by Deep Purple and decide to form a rock band!
Miyashita Kouhei
Youko and Harumi have been friends since youth as their life circumstances were similar. Youko ends up marrying a politician and publishes a successful picture book basen on Harumi's life, when her son suddenly gets abducted.
Domestic drama focusing on a soon to be retired train driver and his wife.
A drab middle-aged man with thoughts of committing suicide and an extraordinary child prodigy plan a fake kidnap in exchange for a ransom of 10 billion yen.
Professor Yashikiki
La doctora Rie es conocida como la Juana de Arco de Obstetricia y Ginecología. Trabaja en un entorno desafiante con el cierre de las clínicas debido a la falta de médicos y al sistema mismo que se descompone. La doctora Rie ayuda a una mujer infértil a concebir con una madre sustituta, lo cual está prohibido en Japón...
Yosohachi Nishihisashi
Set during the Meiji Restoration period of Edo era Japan, Naoyuki belongs to the 8th generation of the Inoyama family, a wealthy family known for finance & accounting. He is also a gifted mathematician and uses the abacus with extreme skills. Naoyuki works under the declining Kaga domain. Because of this, Naoyuki and his wife Koma suffer hardships as their stature and wealth dissipates.
Mito Domain Samurai Seki Tetsunosuke must pay the consequences for his role in the assassination of Great Elder Ii Naosuke. Based on true events.
Toshio Gamou
Popular TV screenwriter Mayumi Taniyama suffers from the dreaded writer's block. When producer Masaya Mukai asks for a screenplay written for him, Mayumi Taniyama offers to write one if he falls in love with her.
Loan shark Ginjiro Manda meets an old friend, banker Imamiya. Harassed by his manager and pestered about past mistakes, Imamiya commits suicide.
Kanai
Saru is a talented young locksmith who unlocks any kind of lock. He is, however, a complete fool when it comes to women. One day a girl Mayumi asks him to open a safe full of stolen money. Knowing nothing about it, Saru takes the money briefcase with Mayumi and finds himself with yakuza gangsters and also police in hot pursuit.
Chuji Yaba
Onchi was exiled to posts around Asia and Africa due to his work as head of a labor union for National Air Line. He is ordered to return to head office after ten years, and continues to struggle. When a National Air Line plane is involved in the worst air disaster in Japanese history, he is assigned to console and provide restitution to the families of the victims.
La historia, ambientada en el período Kamakura, trata sobre un monje budista, que cumpliendo los últimos deseos de su madre, dedica su vida a la meditación, divulgándola entre los japoneses.
Nemoto
1944, in the depths of World War II. Toyomatsu Shimizu is a completely typical barber from a remote sea-side town who lives frugally but happily with his wife Fusae and their five-year-old son. Eventually, though, the army beckons and he is drafted. One day an officer on the battle-field orders him to kill a captive U.S. soldier. Although Toyomatsu lacks the spirit to kill the man, and only wounds him in the arm, the victorious U.S. soldiers will not accept this, and Toyomatsu is arrested and tried as a war-criminal. And he receives the cruelest sentence possible...
Keisuke Shikatebukuro
A former TV presenter is murdered. On the same day, two police officers from the Metropolitan police Special Mission Task Force, Sugishita Ukyo (Yutaka Mizutani) and Kameyama Kaoru (Yasufumi Terawaki), are guarding a female Diet member, Katayama Hinako (Yoshino Kimura). The pair identifies explosives and saves her life. From the clues left at the scene, Sugishita builds up his case and finds a connection between the murder of the TV presenter and the attempted murder of the Diet member. During a painstaking investigation, the savage murder case of a young overseas volunteer five years earlier emerges in the background, and the pair prevents indiscriminate murder at the Tokyo Big City Marathon event by suppressing the perpetrator.
Tanioka Hajime
This 2 night special takes off during their graduation, where Chiaki-senpai & Nodame left for Europe. The first special centered on Chiaki's story, the story tells about Chiaki's dream to be a conductor. Nodame on the other hand attended the conservatory to attain her dream to one-day play the piano for Chiaki. After her hard work, Nodame was given a chance to have a mini recital. During the recital, Chiaki saw her worth and realized that he cannot go on with out her
Inspector Megure
Shinichi Kudo returns as the young Conan to investigate a murderous letter sent to a beauty pageant winner who demands affection.
Hidemi Machida
A Japanese Class B war criminal sets out to take full responsibility for the execution of American Airmen.
Remake of Kurosawa Akira‘s Ikiru
Hisashi was once a member of a motorcycle gang. Now he plays pachinko everyday with his live-in girlfriend, Junko. He has a habit of "huffing" paint thinner. His debts accumulate every day. Hisashi's old friend from the gang, Ozawa is a loan shark. He persuades Hisashi to join his easy-money-making scheme, "Quit inhaling paint thinner and score big with me!" Hisashi's dead-end life is made up of the same things that symbolize contemporary rural Japan: Karaoke clubs, pachinko parlors, ATM loan machines and discount outlets along a highway. In this ordinary place that is just like hundreds of other small towns in Japan, Hisashi sees the darkness. Darkness that is out of the reach of neon lights along the highway. In the vacuum of this darkness, life repeats itself endlessly. Hisashi has a flashback of a paint-thinner trip he once had. The hallucination tempts him to the other side. Tantalized, he asks himself, "Can I really go?
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Inspector Megure
In order to uphold his title of High School Detective, a teen sleuth must protect his classmates from kidnapping after receiving a threatening letter.
Daijiro Hanada
Ichiro Hanada is a mischievous boy who gains the ability to see and talk to ghosts after a near-death experience. (live-action adaptation of the manga )
Two Osaka comedians, Makoto (Tomomitsu Yamaguchi) and Kinta (Go Morita), are riding bicycles in Tokyo when they're hit by a dump truck. They regain consciousness in 1945, but not of their own bodies. Somehow, their souls have been transported into the bodies of two tokkotai (special forces, or "kamikaze") pilots. Having grown up in a peaceful, carefree Japan, the two comedians experience severe disorientation at having to suddenly deal with the realities of war. They attempt to escape their squadron, knowing that Japan will eventually lose the war, but are nevertheless moved by the young men they meet, all of whom have very different opinions about their fate and the responsibilities that have been placed upon them.
Nakanishi
Police struggle to uncover Klein, a powerful criminal organization. Asuka, a young detective, is assigned to contact and escort Hatsumi, a mistress of the drug lord Kimikuni, but they are ambushed, leaving Hatsumi brain-dead and Asuka near to death. However, the police concoct a top-secret plan to infiltrate Klein by transplanting Asuka's brain into Hatsumi's body.
Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2003 Spring Special" presents five tales. 1. Kao wo Nusumareta (My Face was Stolen) - starring Inagaki Goro 2. Rental Love - starring Iijima Naoko 3. Oikaketai (I want to Chase [Him/Her]) - starring Kyono Kotomi 4. Chozeikin Taisaku Satsujin Jiken (Countering Excessive Taxation Murder Case) - starring Nishimura Masahiko 5. Kage no Kuni (The Country of Shadows) - starring Sakurai Sachiko
Aikawa
Nonaka-kun (Voice)
Continuación del especial televisivo de 2000 "Ghiblies". En seis segmentos independientes, muestra de forma cómica el día a día del estudio de animación "Giburi" (basado en el propio Ghibli). Cada segmeneto está animado de forma diferente. Se estrenó en cines comercialmente junto a la película "Haru en el reino de los gatos" y fue incorporado en el DVD de ésta en Japón.
Kubozuka plays Araki Ryunosuke who starts working at a host club called "club NO.1" to pay his debt.
Godzilla combate contra un misterioso platillo volante, que luego se transformará en un enorme monstruo llamado Orga. La batalla final transcurrirá en Shinjuku, un suburbio de Tokio, donde nuestro héroe aprovecha de estrenar su nuevo rayo atómico.
Shigenori Komoda
A meek agent at the Showa Life Insurance company receives a phone call from a customer who says that she's planning to commit suicide and wants to know if her policy will pay out. Concerned about her safety, the agent visits her house only to find that her young son has hanged himself. As he investigates further, more and more people connected with this family start having "accidents," and if he's not careful, he might be next.
Una curiosa historia se produce en una familia japonesa. Madre e hija deciden irse a esquiar, pero desgraciadamente el autobús que las transporta sufre un accidente que provoca la muerte de la madre, no sin que antes transfiera ésta su alma al cuerpo de su hija. Así que ahora ésta posee doble personalidad y piensa como progenitora e hija, provocando situaciones delicadas e incluso hilarantes, en las que se llega a plantear la posibilidad de un incesto al pretender la madre que está en la chica, acostarse con su marido... que a la vez es su padre.
Shintaro Imaizumi
Furuhata is called in to investigate a murder committed by the well-known Japanese boy band SMAP.
Tatsuhiko Ushijima
A love story written by an ordinary housewife is going to be broadcast as a radio drama and almost everyone among the crew insists on changing various parts of the play to their liking.
Detective Tachibana
Biwako is a vain, middle-aged actress who witnesses a brutal murder. Realizing that the very public life of the woman makes their sole witness vulnerable to the killers, the police assign two officers to safeguard her until the trial. In the interim, the lives of Biwako and everyone around her are changed in unexpected ways.
Kouroku (voice)
Tras sufrir el ataque de un monstruoso jabalí maldito, el joven Ashitaka emprende el camino en busca de la cura que detenga la infección. Mientras, los humanos están acabando con los bosques y los dioses convertidos en temibles bestias hacen todo lo posible por protegerlo encabezados por Mononoke, una princesa guerrera. Ashikata deberá escoger bando y decidir si ayudar a los hombres o las deidades intentando detener la maldición de su herida que se extiende por su cuerpo sin cuartel.
Un jornalista en el terremoto de Kobe en 1997 recuerda un viaje que hizo cuando era un niño junto con su familia. En él, navegó desde Awaji hasta Beppy para enterrar las cenizas de su hermano mayor, asesinado en la recién terminada II Guerra Mundial.
Hinata Mochizuki (Arisa Mizuki) is a superstar in the pop music scene, and Kenta Yamabe (Masato Hagiwara) is a very ordinary office worker. One day, the two meet, and then fell in love. However, due to the influence of various external factors, the relationship between the two does not go smoothly.