Mickey Curtis

Shinichi Tsuda, a Naoki Prize winning author, is working to publish his newest story. It revolves around Tsuyama, a driver for a call girl business in Toyama Prefecture, who comes across a mysterious counterfeit bill and has his life targeted by underworld kingpin Kurata. Is his story fact or fiction? His editor, Nahomi Torikai, decides to verify whether his latest work is mere fiction based on real-life experiences. She looks into a family that vanished, a post office worker who went missing, a shady load of cash, the whereabouts of the doves, and the fateful encounter from that night... A series of shocking facts are revealed from Tsuda’s stories. Why did the counterfeit money end up in Tsuda’s hands? What is the “ending” that Tsuda wished to portray?

The only movie theater on the Onomichi seafront is about to close its doors. Its last night of screenings will be an all-night marathon of Japanese war films. When lightning strikes the theater, three young men in the audience find themselves thrown back in time into the world inside the screen.

Una familia criminal de Tokio se ve envuelta en una guerra de bandas. En medio de la confusión, un asesino en serie, así como un peligroso triángulo amoroso, causa el caos por la ciudad.

Shiori Kitamura, que trabaja en una agencia de viajes, se acaba de mudar a un nuevo apartamento. Al lado vive un aspirante a novelista, Hirano Susumu. Una noche, Shiori oye la voz de un hombre viniendo de la pared que dice «Soy de dentro de un año en el futuro». La voz le pide que siga a Hirano Susumo y que le salve. Para resolver el misterio, Shiori empieza a seguir a Hirano y se siente atraída por él. Un día, de repente deja de oír su voz proveniente del aire acondicionado, y decide hablar por fin con su vecino para aclarar el misterio.

A quiet woman receives a social media request from a middle-school friend, who she doesn’t remember fondly. The two meet at a hotel’s restaurant where they find a room numbered 666 containing Rokuroku, a long-neck woman wearing a red kimono.

¿Qué pasaría si un día nos quedásemos sin electricidad? Es más, ¿qué pasaría si esto fuese permanente? Esto es a lo que se enfrentan los Suzuki, una familia que vive en Tokio, alienada por el estilo de vida contemporáneo. Cuando la ciudad se quede sin energía, no les quedará más remedio que sobrevivir en otro lado, y de otro modo. Una película de aventuras con toques de comedia, que pone en duda nuestra propia existencia.

Natsume Mochizuki trabaja como modelo adolescente en Tokio, pero se entera de que tiene que mudarse a la ciudad natal de su padre, Ukigumo. Ella está en una situación desesperada porque no puede hacer las cosas que quiere hacer en Ukigumo. Un día, conoce a Koichiro Hasegawa. Él es el sucesor de la familia Hasegawa. Su familia es rica y es respetado en la zona. Natsume Mochizuki y Koichiro Hasegawa se sienten atraídos el uno al otro, pero algo cambia su destino.

A pesar de haber empezado una prometedora carrera de escritor, Ryota va de desilusión en desilusión. Se ha divorciado de Kyoko y gasta todo el dinero que gana como detective privado apostando en las carreras, por lo que finalmente no puede pagar la pensión alimentaria de su hijo de 11 años, Shingo. Ahora Ryota intenta ganarse nuevamente la confianza de sus seres queridos y formar parte de la vida de su hijo. La situación no parece fácil, pero un día un tifón obliga a toda la familia a pasar una noche juntos.

Bikuu is a Dark Slasher that receives an order from the Senate to take out a rogue priest that has fallen to the darkness, claiming souls using the Soul Insertion technique.

A 122 year old movie theater is going to be closed. The staff members, visitors and friends of the old cinema will see the last days of the building and it's history. Then the appearance of a mysterious old man triggers confusion.

Basada en una novela de fantasía romántica escrita por Mizuho Hirayama, la película está protagonizada por Nijiro Murakami como un estudiante de secundaria llamado Takashi Hayama, que se enamora de Azusa Oribe (Akari Hayami) tan pronto como se encuentra con ella. Sin embargo, un día Azusa hace una confesión extraña “la gente se olvida que existo unas pocas horas después de estar conmigo”.

25-year-old Nanami is managing an amateur band. She is broke, cannot pay her rent, and the singer has run off. Yoshinori is 65. His wife dies the day before his retirement. Having suddenly lost everything, he becomes desperate. After the two accidentally meet, Nanami moves into Yoshinori's place and invites a few other people to become their flatmates – the beginning of an extraordinary life together.

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.

Hitori Gekidan gets off a crew bus, assuming he will participate in a travel program. He overhears people in the monitoring room announce the beginning of the "24 Hour Kiss Pressure Game." He is then assaulted by attractive actresses pleading for a kiss as well as deadly mercenaries and zombies attempting to kidnap him. Soon he grasps his character and situation. He is Shogo Kawashima aka The Desert Reaper and he is on the run with Aoi Tsukasa (Aoi Tsukasa). For unknown reasons, the Red Shadow, who raised him, wants him back.

16-year-old Haruka lost the people she loved the most in a fire. Haruka is also physically and emotionally wounded from the fire, but she still dreams of becoming a pianist. She takes part in an upcoming competition. Inauspicious incidents then occur around her. Musical student Yosuke, who teaches piano to Haruka, tries to solve the case.

Ota, Kobayashi y Nagai han construido un androide que deben presentar en una feria robótica. Pocos días antes de la exhibición, su creación se cae fatalmente por la ventana. Sin tiempo para construir un nuevo robot, solo se les ocurre una solución para no quedar como unos perdedores: contratar a alguien que pueda introducirse en la carcasa del robot. Su “mejor” candidato es Suzuki, un anciano entusiasmado ante la posibilidad de tener una actividad con la que matar el tiempo.

Luego de que una bola rápida matará a su padre, Yakyû promete no jugar nunca más al béisbol. Sin embargo, la cruel directora de su reformatorio lo obliga a unirse al equipo ya que, si no lo hace, deberá presenciar la muerte de su compañero de celda.

Mari lives a comfortable life as a single woman. She has a nice job at a company and resides in an apartment in the suburbs of Tokyo. A couple lives next to door to her. Mari can hear them argue or making happy conversations everyday. One night, when Mari comes back home, she sees her next door neighbor sitting in front of his door and shivering from the cold. He locked himself out.

After Japan's defeat in WWII, "Pandora no hako" follows a young man named Risuke (Shota Sometani) who has contracted tuberculosis. He travels to the countryside to a unique nursing facility to receive treatment for his disease. At the sanatorium all the patients and nurses go by nicknames and Risuke decides to reinvent himself as Hibari. During his stay, Hibari develops realationships with other patients and nurses. After Hibari's friend Tsuikushi (Yosuke Kubozuka) gets discharged from the nursing facility, Hibari writes to him about his relationships with Dakesang (Mieko Kawakami) the chief nurse and Mabo (Riisa Naka) another nurse that is bright and seems to like him.

Sakiko is a typical teenager in many ways. She hates her divorced father, who chases after every skirt he sees. She does not know, if she will ever be loved by the other sex. When her dad suddenly inherits a lot of money and becomes really lazy, she hates him even more. He finally decides to start his own cafe, where Sakiko, of course has to help. From this moment, strange customers and good-looking waitresses form the center of tension between father and daughter.

Set in World War II, the film depicts the story of the real-life Japanese battleship, the Yamato, which is confronted in the Pacific Ocean by giant monsters, including the most fearsome of them all, Reigo.

In the bleak, disturbing and suspenseful universe of H.P. Lovecraft, endless horrors await. From ravaging cannibals to ancient rituals come to life, there's no escape for these hapless souls, whether they come across the Danwich outskirts or even the gruesome cover of the Necronomicon.

A young girl meets a strange Old Monk.

The second feature from female director Shindo Kaze (Love/Juice), Princess in an Iron Helmet (a.k.a. Korogare! Tamako) is a bright and colorful youth film about a quirky young woman's reluctant coming-of-age journey. Tamako (Yamada Maiko) is 20 years old, lives at home with her mother (Kishimoto Kayoko) and teenaged brother, and simply refuses to grow up. Ever since her father (Naoto Takenaka) left the family, she's stopped trusting people, and now lounges around in her own small, claustrophobic world. Wearing an iron helmet whenever she steps outside, she ventures only to her mom's beauty salon, the mechanic shop, and the bakery - the source of her greatest joy in life, sweet buns. Her world is static, insular, and safe, and there's no need to change - that is until her cat runs away, the bakery closes, and her mom falls in love with another man.

Sisters "Manamo" and "Minamo" live separately in Hiroshima and London since the divorce of their parents. The elder sister Manamo lives in Hiroshima with her mother, she is a high school student, but moonlights at a Japanese cabaret-club. After her mother remarries and moves to Yamaguchi Prefecture, Manamo lives by herself in Hiroshima. One day, her younger sister Minamo returns from London to visit Manamo. It is ten years since they have lived together, and they argue every day.

El grito de Izo resuena en el lugar de ejecución, donde acaba de ser crucificado acusado de un asesinato. Muere, pero deja una profunda maldición. Su alma no puede ir al cielo ni al infierno, y quedará flotando en el espacio y el tiempo. Años después un vagabundo aparece entre los edificios. Es la reencarnación de Izo y tiene un claro objetivo: matar... (FILMAFFINITY)

One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and kill the killer ..... and it escalates!

The fate of three men who have lived as brothers since childhood

Seiji and Yoshifumi are the only members of the Muto branch of the Date Family. The two respect and love their leader, Mr. Muto, like a father and the three share a firm bond. But their fate is sealed when the Family is involved in a conflict. Muto is unable to pay his share of funds for the oncoming battle but tells executives of the Family that he would fight at the front line instead. In the wish to protect Muto, Seiji has him arrested by the police. Ignoring the Family executives' mocks of "Muto escaped to prison", Seiji prepares for the battle and attacks like a demon on behalf of his boss...

A woman has a fine life with rewarding work, a nice house, and a serious boyfriend in the lowlands of Japan. In walks her long lost husband who years ago disappeared and abandoned her. The wife allows her lost husband to secretly live in her house. More specifically, he lives in the wife's closet. The closet has a peep hole, so he does nothing day and night but watch his wife live her life.

Yosuke Sasano es un hombre en paro, de unos cuarenta años, al que acaba de abandonar su esposa. Cuando un viejo vagabundo le cuenta que tiene escondido el Buda de oro que robó en un templo de Kioto en una lejana casa situada cerca de un puente rojo, Yosuke decide emprender el viaje en su búsqueda. Cuando llega al lugar no encuentra el Buda pero sí a una extraña mujer que vive en la casa .

When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub, it is not long before his dead body is found. Soon, inter-family retaliation follows, resulting in the death for a prominent crime boss. Devastated by this turn of events, the temperamental Kenzaki vows to avenge his boss's death and, as bloody violence ensues, the body count reaches excessive proportions.

Marte, año 2071, poco antes del día de Halloween. Un camión cisterna lleno de productos químicos hace explosión en una de las calles más importantes de la ciudad, liberando un nuevo virus letal que acaba con la vida de cientos de personas. Las autoridades, temiendo un nuevo ataque aún más destructivo, fijan una recompensa millonaria para quien capture a los responsables. Mientras tanto, en la nave "Bebop", Spike y su banda de cazadores de recompensas están aburridos y sin dinero, hasta que conocen la noticia de la recompensa...

Sachi Hamano's Yurisai (Lily Festival) is about a man (Mickey Curtis) in his seventies who comes to live in an apartment building that also houses seven elderly women. The film examines the ladies' sexual desires as the man proceeds to woo each of them. Kazuko Yoshiyuki portrays one of the female residents. The film was adapted from a novel by Houko Momotani and was screened at the Montreal World Film Festival.

Adventures and romances of a young pool hustler in Shibuya.

Film director Mario Baba meets a mysterious gentleman, and realizes he is a important man from his boyhood. The two chase each other around, causing a lot of commotion.

Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.

A traveling ronin perceived as a fool impresses a samurai leader with his fishing skills and gains employment.

Ambitious yakuza Kenji befriends harmonica-playing bartender Chuji, who moonlights as a part-time drug-dealer for the opposing gang. Their friendship is threatened by Kenji's plans for advancement, as well as by his bodyguards growing jealousy of Chuji.

When I was young, Takato Kuroda took a hand at seeing "Qi" at my grandfather Shigaru who was a great feng shui, but since I closed my eyes with fear, I could not see myself ever since. From the complex with respect to the deceased grandfather, Dragon has developed a software to look at attention with computers, and has an office of management consultant. This summer, Tokyo was suffering from extreme weather which rain continues for over 20 days, and urban function was deprived. One day, a who visited an old shop owner and Suzuki with an introduction of an owner and Yazaki ...

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.

Ambientada en un decadente barrio futurista de Tokio, Yentown. Después de que fallezca su madre, una prostituta se hace cargo de la hija de ésta, dándole el nombre de Mariposa. Comenzará a trabajar para un negocio por el que pasan todo tipo de despojos sociales...

An erotic bizarre action in which the three sisters of the Ijuin family, descendants of Kunoichi, fight against the hostile Mao Noichi clan.

A young foot soldier in the yakuza seeks revenge when his prostitute girlfriend dies after a session with a high-ranking Japanese politician with a taste for torture. He sets out on a 'kamikaze' mission to kill his bosses and the politician; along the way, he acquires the aid of a taxi driver who has recently returned to Japan after living in South America for several decades and is struggling to cope with poverty and the prejudices of native-born Japanese.

This odd three-parter purports to map the metaphysics of the interpersonal universe, dividing its trio of tales into three, different-toned “planets.”

Joe and his delivery company friends are back. This time they become embroiled in the evil plot of a corrupt politician.

After Tokyo police officer Yokoda is killed in the line of duty, his chief decides give Yokoda's body to Dr. Tani for use in a secret scientific experiment: Yokoda's brain will be transplanted into a super-powered robot body, making him into an unstoppable policeman of the future. The supercop develops problems, however, when he begins to remember his human past. Then there is the matter of Dr. Tani's other cyborg, who has become a super-powered homicidal maniac.

Año 2038, trece años después de la gran guerra de Robots, un grupo de cazatesoros, en la busca de valiosos chips de ordenadores, entra en la zona de guerra prohibida en la isla 8J0 del Pacífico. La tan inoportuna visita coincide con el resurgir de la perversa supercomputadora Kyron5, la responsable de la guerra de la humanidad en el año 2025.

片や会社の社長でデザイナー、片やスポーツマンでモデルという道を歩む生まれも育ちも異なる2人の高校生の友情を描く。 One is a designer and company president, the other an athlete and model. Although on different paths in life and from different backgrounds, in high school these two were once good friends. This movie tells the story of their friendship.

Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out a niche in the market with their musical talents.

La violencia y el terror se apodera de la universidad. Una banda de delincuentes se enfrenta a los estudiantes universitarios desarrollándose una sangrienta batalla.

Movie adaptation of the TV series.

A seamstress seeks the love of her life while helping a troubled couple.

Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan children are wandering through the battlefield scavenging for armour when they encounter a young boy named Sasuke with magical powers he says came from a meteor that crashed onto the Earth…

In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married soon. With the soil that is hard to work and the subtroipical climate, the immigrants have to cope with a hard life. But after years of hard work, Yoshio finds work as a teacher while his wife manages to open a small grocery store. But with the war around the corner, life becomes more and more complicated for the Japanese immigrants in a foreign country.

An early Okamoto yakuza film, though it's not in the Underworld series (along with The Last Gunfight and The Big Boss) despite being alternatively known as "Death of the Boss." While Okamoto did not write this film and took on the project because he was assigned and "just doing [his] job" according to an interview with Chris Desjardins in Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film, he did express a general excitement about working in action cinema (which shows through in this film's energy.)

Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically threatened by a volcano on one side and tidal waves on the other. Yukio's younger sister Setsu follows then and dreams of becoming a pearl diver. Toru is preparing to go fishing with his father when a bell tolls and a danger flag is hung high on the hill behind the village to warn of an impending tidal wave by the village patriarch, known as Old Gentleman.

Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is an automobile tester for Komatsu Motors which has a fatal accident. As his brother investigates the "Accident" with his old college friend (makoto Sato), now a reporter... They stumble across murder, espionage and cover-ups. High-class night club, femme fatale, and a "Blueprint of Murder" all adds up to a bigger plot then first expected.

Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting between rival gangs. Fujioka is assigned to investigate the death of the wife of gangster Tetsuo Maruyama of the Kozuka gang, probably at the hands of one of the Oka gang. During a gang gunfight, Maruyama is rescued by Detective Fujioka and the two become friends. But Maruyama insists on avenging his wife's murder, even if it means conflict with his new friend.

Duro relato antibélico que narra la desesperada situación, abocada a la derrota, que sufrió el ejército japonés en Filipinas, en 1945, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. (FILMAFFINITY)

When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and seeks out his brother's killer.

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping to become a successful singer instead. Ryuta loves his brother, but Mineo's possible defection presents problems for the gang, and Ryuta realizes he must kill his brother if he wants to survive.