After Akira Ninomiya miraculously survives a brutal attacked by an unknown assailant wearing a "monster mask,"he becomes fixated on finding the attacker and getting revenge.
A British comedy in Japanese clothes, with central character Ginji at once earnest farm boy and entrepreneurial savant, finding ingenious and entertaining solutions in a timeless tale of business and found family.
Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, a dull novelist and a legendary killer. Susumu Ichikawa, an obsolete writer with no manuscript at all, had another face - a legendary hitman. But the truth of the matter is... he had never shot a person. One day, he receives a murder request from a friend. Seeing this as an opportunity to achieve the ideal hard-boiled novel, he decides to hire a real hitman and demands that he report to him the assassination situation as it was.
Katsuji Kano
Los trabajadores de las instalaciones de Fukushima Daiichi en Japón arriesgan su vida a diario permaneciendo en la central nuclear para evitar su desintegración total después de que la región haya sido totalmente devastada por un terremoto y un posterior tsunami en 2011.
Lawyer Mizuno
Shun and Nagisa first meet and fall in love during their first year of high school. While Shun is graduating from university, Nagisa tells him that he doesn't see a future for them. Despite Shun's strong feelings, they go their separate ways. Years later, Shun is now a store owner, living alone in a rural area. Out of the blue, Nagisa arrives with his six-year-old daughter, Sora. Spending time together, Shun realizes he still harbors feelings for Nagisa. Can Nagisa reconcile with his feelings for Shun, which have been there all along?
A mother, a father and their child are in a dark box. The child is getting a cough constantly. The mother asks the father why we are getting such a strange situation. The father says he can't understand this situation. The bombing sound can be heard from far away. What is happening now?
Choji
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.
Nitobe
Nitobe and Sakamoto are childhood friends who now work at the front desk of a capsule hotel. Nitobe has a particular fondness for philosophy and crustaceans. Sakamoto, meanwhile, is fixated on suicide. The capsule hotel draws a variety of guests, including a Finnish mother who has lost her child, a fugitive woman, and a researcher studying Daphnia. None of their lives ever intersect. They exist, but never cross, like cells in a capsule hotel. The themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters’ lives.
Tsuyama
Ko, a man in his late 30s, lives in the countryside with his wife and teenage son. Mitsuhiko, who runs a local car dealership, also stayed in his hometown. One day, their mutual friend Eisuke returns from a long military operation and their reunification brings back both pleasant and painful memories.
Based on a manga series of the same name, an average high school baseball team is weakened when Hiroki, one of the star players in the team, receives a failing grade in school and cannot participate in any of the club’s activities till he passes again.
Doctor Wada
Hisashi y Mai celebrarán su boda en 3 meses, pero Mai cae enferma y termina en coma. Hisashi no se da por vencido con su prometida y reza por su recuperación. Finalmente, Mai despierta, pero ella no tiene ningún recuerdo de Hisashi.
Eichi Hatano
Con el fin de ocultar la corrupción pasada por el gobierno, el grupo Kyuryu procede a un plan para destruir una calle y construir un casino. Para detener el grupo Kyuryu, los miembros de SWORD comienzan a moverse.
Sukenzaemon Yasojima
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.
Eichi Hatano
Dos miembros de S.W.O.R.D ganan contra Wangan Rengogun, que es conducido por Kohaku. Sin embargo, aparecen las bandas más brutales. Las pandillas son Doubt, dirigido por Ranmaru Hayashi, y Prison Gang, dirigido por Jesse. Estas pandillas intentan dominar el área controlada por SWORD. Finalmente, Doubt, con la ayuda de Prison Gang, desafía a White Rascals a luchar.
Kazushige Watanabe
An illegal biological weapon K-55 is stolen from a university lab. The university lab can't even call the police because the secret nature of the weapon. The school lab then receives a message stating that the entire country is now being held hostage and they must pay a ransom of 300 million yen.
Kenzo Maehara
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.
Makoto Nishizaki
Ando can't accept this his daughter Kana committed suicide. Kana fell from the ledge of a school building and died. Ando attempts to find out the truth behind his daughter's death. He becomes suspicious of his daughter's former classmate, Saki. Saki isn't a typical high school student and she aspires to work in show business. She dominates her high school with her charisma.
Producer
Squid have 10 legs. Octopuses have 8 legs. Added together, that’s 18 legs.
The body of a young woman is discovered in a park in Tokyo with all her organs removed. The case is assigned to Detective Inukai, a usually cool and unemotional detective known for seeing through the lies of others. But Inukai has a young daughter in need of a kidney transplant, so when the first crime is followed by two similar crimes, Inukai is caught between his roles as a detective and a father.
Fujinami
Set within the Tokyo DisneySea theme park, the love lives of various people are told. Gakkun has been preparing for his accounting license exam. Nao Nanami works in the gift wrapping section of a department store.
Yonemura
Koichi y Atsumi se aman y se conocen desde niños. Atsumi está en coma tras una tentativa de suicidio. Con la intención de sacarla de esa situación, Koichi consigue conectar con el subconsciente de Atsumi a través del “sensing”, una nueva y extraña tecnología.
This is the continuation and final part of Double Face SP, the Japanese remake of the highly successful 2002 Hong Kong film, Infernal Affairs. This special focuses on Police Inspector Takayama Ryosuke (Kagawa Teruyuki) who had been secretly supplying police information to the organized crime group, the Oda-gumi. Once a young street thug, Takayama was taken under the wing of Oda Hironari (Kohinata Fumiyo), the leader of Oda-gumi. Dressed, fed, and educated, Takayama was instructed to become a police officer and work as a mole for the group. Now, he is tasked to get close to Suenaga Mari (Aoi Yu), a daughter of an influential politician.
G-man on TV
Drama sobre el desastre del terremoto causado en Japón en 2011. (FILMAFFINITY)
Two men, a detective and a gang member, infiltrate each other's organization. Soon they find their fates intertwined.
Kenichi Shibuya is a 50-year-old salaryman who divorced a few years back. Since the divorce, his relationship with his daughter has become awkward. One day, Kenichi Shibuya and his boss Yumi Ayase are struck by lightning and die. They go to the afterlife. There in the afterlife they hear of a legendary soup. If someone drinks the legendary soup, that person is reborn, but the reborn person has no memories of their prior life. Kenichi Shibuya then searches for the secrets in the legendary soup, hoping to be reborn, but not forget his daughter.
The movie is based on the true story of Takumi Asakawa - a Japanese man who entered Korea during the country's occupation by Japan. Takumi Asakawa became captivated by Korean culture and championed the value of such items as the traditional white Korean porcelain.
Minoru Oosawa
Kyohei Nagashima (Masaki Okada) has shut away the world. During his high school days he was the target of bullying and experienced horrifying moments. Now as a young adult Kyohei takes a new job. He works for a company that specializes in cleaning out the homes of recently deceased individuals. With his new job Kyohei meets co-worker Yuki (Nana Eikura). Yuki has also experienced a traumatizing event as a teen and has also shut herself away from the world. These two young people form a bond as they go through the homes of the recently departed people. They gradually open up to each other and in the process to the world. Yet, their fragile psyches may or may not be ready for such changes ...
Yusaku Hayakawa dreams of becoming a detective, but works as a trainer for police dogs. When Yusaku gets an albino shepherd named Shiro, he forms a special bond with him. Everyone says that Shiro does not have the abilities to become a police dog, but Yusaku believes in him and trains him. When a terrorist act occurs, Shiro gets the chance to show what he has learned.
Keiko's Father
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.
Yu Irie (8000 MILES 1 & 2) returns with this ambitious flick about an upcoming concert by a reclusive rock group and the managers, obsessed fans, shut-ins, single moms and kindergarten teachers who are affected by it. A true tribute to the healing power of rock and roll.
After the attack on the Chief Cabinet Secretary, the next duty of the fourth office will be to guard the National Assembly building. In the midst of security, Ogata keeps Inoue away from the main conference hall and puts his well-thought-out plan into action, and the parliament building is controlled by SPs and terrorists who support the revolution. Inoue notices something strange and starts to fight against the terrorists to stop Ogata.
Tagawa Shu
Una misteriosa chica de instituto es en realidad una autentica maestra del karate. A pesar de su habilidad en las artes marciales, esconde sus capacidades para proteger el tesoro de su familia. Pero unos bandidos lo roban y matan a su familia, desatando asi toda la furia concentrada de Karate Girl
Katsuo Kato
The movie consists of 4 stories each telling how people survive on life-death choice. The story titles are: Cheering Girls, Boy? meets girl., Claim Night! and The House Full Of 'Abandoned' Businessmen.
War photjournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children. Because of Yasayuki's drinking problems the couple divorced. Yasuyuki is now coughing up blood, hospitalized, and violent. Even with all of these problems Yasuyuki can't give up drinking alcohol. His family gets tired. Yasuyuki is then hospitalized in an alcoholic ward. There he finds comfort living with other patients and having conversations with doctors. With the help of his family, Yasuyuki recovers mentally and physically, but his body has already paid a heavy toll.
Masaharu Yokomizo
At an event hall in Roppongi Hills, there is a charity event for landmine eradication. Kaoru does security with Security Police officers Soichiro Ogata, Eri Sasamoto, Takahumi Yamamoto and Mitsuo Ishida. Kaoru Inoue senses a threatening existence and starts to suffer a severe headache and becomes dizzy. When Kaoru was young, his parents were killed by terrorists and that incident has had an traumatic effect on Kaoru since.
Kouichi Kudou
A phone conversation occurs between a man and a woman. They both state their love for each other and that they will do this so they can be together. The woman is in a hotel room with a view of the port. The man is inside of a parked car with a view of the ocean. A man named Colonel appears and hands the man a box with a loaded gun inside. The Colonel states "its a present from the witch". The woman's name is Meiko (Michiko Kichise) and she is the young wife of Takamitsu Temiyako (Takamitsu Temiyako) - president of a large medical corporation. The man in the parked car is Dr. Tokito Takahiko (Hiroshi Abe) an employee of the large medical corporation. This evening, Meiko and Tokito will implement their plan to murder Meiko's husband and frame his death as a suicide.
5 girls and 5 guys find themselves mysteriously trapped in a room and are forced to play a psychological game of dare.
Shirozaki
A samurai from the Edo Period time travels to present day Japan where he meets a divorcee and her son. Soon, he discovers a passion for making pastries.
Toru Akaiwa
Dr Toma, a skilled surgeon, starts work at a regional hospital in Japan. After performing an operation to remove a patient’s liver cancer, something that normally would not be done at this hospital, he quickly gains a very good reputation amongst the town’s people. Some of his colleagues become so jealous they are resentful and waiting patiently for the perfect opportunity to crucify him. Soon they get their chance as Dr Toma considers performing a controversial operation…
Investigator
A woman and her child get trapped underground while investigators look for them.
Ryuzo Koshiba
Kaori is an intense kendo fighter who has been training since she was young. Sanae is a girl who has only participated in kendo casually, but somehow manages to beat Kaori in the final tournament of junior high school. Although Sanae doesn’t particularly care about it, Kaori holds a grudge, setting up a rivalry that bleeds over into high school.
A man, stacks of rocks, a forest.
Screenplay
Japanese film directed by Keisuke Horibe. Three seemingly unacquainted men and a woman find themselves trapped in an elevator. As the hours pass and the level of anxiety rise, we realize the elevator trap is in fact a trap, but hatched by which of the parties and for what motive?
Director
Japanese film directed by Keisuke Horibe. Three seemingly unacquainted men and a woman find themselves trapped in an elevator. As the hours pass and the level of anxiety rise, we realize the elevator trap is in fact a trap, but hatched by which of the parties and for what motive?
Jun Kanai is a lecturer at the University of Tokyo who despite being in his thirties is still a virgin. One day he reunites with an old student of his and decides that she will be the one to take his virginity but finds out that she will soon be studying abroad.
Kawashima Etsuro
Based on a true story about about a man who was told for many years that he was not employable, but threw all of his effort into working as a door-to-door salesman. Despite the pain attributed to his cerebral palsy, he walked eight to ten miles a day to meet his customers and achieved the highest sales for his company.
Yoko's Father
Yu es un adolescente que se ha criado en el seno de una familia muy cristiana. Recién ordenado sacerdote, su padre le obliga a confesar sus pecados, que él comete buscando la aprobación paterna. Yu se dedica diligentemente a obrar mal, hasta que sus fotos a hurtadillas de bragas de chicas lo catapultan a la fama. Pero entonces conoce a Yoko y se ve envuelto en una misteriosa secta...
Minami's Father
Koike Minami returns from USA to Japan to accomplish her deceased twin sister's wish to win a competition and sing with Avril Lavigne on the stage in a concert in Tokyo.
Ruka's Father
En un futuro distópico, la policía de Tokio ha sido privatizada y se enfrenta a su peor amenaza: un grupo de mutantes que convierten cualquier herida en arma de destrucción. Ruka, una joven oficial atormentada por el asesinato de su padre, será la encargada de exterminarlos.
In the forest, a man is buried up to his waist and repeats an interminable and incomprehensible monologue. His seclusion is about to be disturbed by the arrival of a little boy.
Store manager
Tras haber salido de prisión y cansada de los cotilleos del vecindario sobre ella y su familia, Suzuko Sato, una joven de 21 años, decide vagar por todo Japón, estableciéndose en un lugar hasta que ahorra un millón de yenes, momento en el que se marcha a otro destino para vivir nuevas experiencias y conocer a otras personas.
Zenkichi Tazawa
On August 12, 1985, a jumbo jet crashes, causing 520 fatalities, making the accident the biggest single-plane accident in the world. The local press reporters are tossed about by the waves of facts and rumors. While overwhelmed by the magnitude of the accident, Yuuki, in charge of this crash report at a local newspaper, faces a string of decision-making moments. What are news and a reporter? How should a man do his work and survive in a corporate hierarchy? What do family and friends mean to him? An intriguing story, which keeps the audience on the edge of tension and reality.
A beautiful girl, Yōko, gets lost one night during an air raid and is taken in by an orphanage. Eventually, she is reunited with her own family and goes home to live with them. But there, an unexpected fate awaits her as she is subjected to horrific brutality from these people who are tortured by a past mistake.
Bambi
A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a mysterious hitman — an assassin the hustler has no idea how to contact. Instead, he hires an actor to play the role, though the thespian has no idea what he's getting into.
Chigusa and Yuuto always spent time together as children. They enter high school at the same time and happen to be put into the same class. Yuuto's mother ran off and his father is an alcoholic, so it seems as though the only time he can feel any relief from the pain of his life is when he spends time with Chii-chan and can be reminded of the happy little moments from his past.
A two-part feature directed separately by Shimizu and his colleague Keisuke Toyoshima. Unrelated to each other, both have a common goal: to bring ghosts and aliens together in pure, referential and absurdistic delirium, including neo-Nazi specters, zombie yakuzas and nasty aliens.
Soseki
Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki's same-titled short story collection, Ten Nights of Dreams brings ten fantastical dream sequences to film with great visual and psychological panache. Representing the combined efforts of eleven directors, this outstanding anthology delves into the surreal subconscious with ten madly imaginative, reality-subverting visions that range from wonderfully wacky to nightmarishly unsettling.
Ruiji Fujiwara
Hagu es una nueva estudiante en el 'Hama Art College' conocida como la 'chica prodigio' por su increíble talento en el campo de la pintura. Morita es un escultor que ha viajado por un tiempo y regresa. Mayama es un estudiante de arquitectura, quien está obsesionado de una mujer mayor para quien trabaja, mientras que Yamada es una ceramista que enseña arte a los niños y enamorada de Mayama. Adaptación de un manga de Chika Umino.
Man in Noodle Shop
El sabor del té es un homenaje al cine costumbrista clásico japonés, donde la familia es la base de creación de historias mínimas. Aquí tenemos a los Haruno, conformada por un abuelo ex dibujante y con mente de niño, un hijo que es odontólogo pero practica la hipnosis con sus pacientes y su familia, su esposa, una ex artista de animación que quiere retomar su carrera, el cuñado, que es un ingeniero de sonido y sus hijos, un joven enamorado de su compañera de colegio que intenta conquistarla a través del milenario juego del Go y la pequeña niña que tiene como "amiga" imaginaria a su yo gigante de la cual quiere deshacerse.
Yasunoshin Shinohara
Kanichiro Yoshimura es un samurái padre de familia que no puede alimentar a su esposa e hijos. Con tristeza, decide marcharse a la gran ciudad, dejando atrás a sus seres queridos, para poder así sacarlos adelante. Allí se une a la célebre facción samurái de los Shinsengumi, con quienes comenzará una difícil pero enriquecedora vida en uno de los momentos más tumultuosos de la historia de Japón.
The story of three pairs of characters involved one way or the other with the yakuza and a rigged boxing match and fleeing the thugs one way or the other. Filmed as a showcase of the Japanese boy band V6, Hard Luck Hero has food, drink, cars, kickboxing, debt, shooting, theft, blackmail and music.
Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his van. They are in hot pursuit of their fellow robber who has snatched the money. Unfortunately for the bank robbers, Asakura never drives over 40 km/h speed limit even under the extreme situation.
When a young man is sent to a prison workhouse for a crime he did not commit his friend on the outside must find evidence to clear his name.
Shingo Sonoda
Siete personajes introducidos al inicio del film, son mezclados en una habitación de un hotel: un yakuza de poca monta con un maletín robado, su ex-novia, el novio obsesionado por la misma, otro yakuza enviado a recoger el maletín y otro mas enviado para matar a todos... además del Capitán Banana y su nuevo aprendiz, Mister Yellow.
Inuzuka
In dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexually warped Uncle Sonezaki. Fortunately, she met Samehada as she runs for her life, which is also escaping from some slayers. What follows is a wild chase that leads the audience into a comically violent world.
A dark and strange comedy about a bank robber with bad luck. Bungling a bank robbery turns out to be a profitable mistake for Yamazaki, an amateur crook who ends up with 80 million yen after a string of improbable accidents. But having so much cash doesn't make his life is any easier. In fact, it gets much more complicated when Yamazaki stabs a hairdresser by mistake and instantly becomes a hunted fugitive. He's just one unlucky monkey but can he turn his luck around?
Noguchi
Sawaki is a postman who's not quite thrilled about his boring way of life. But his life is about to change when he delivers mail to his old schoolmate Noguchi, who's now a member of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia, and just finished cutting his little finger off.
An unemployed man trying to steal from a convenience store, and the store clerk catches him in the act. the thief runs away with the store-clerk right after him. All the while, the store clerk is in trouble with a low-rank yakuza. Along the chase for the thief, they catch the eye of the Yakuza who's been looking for the convenience store clerk.