Naoko Ôtani

The body of Shinsuke Maeda, a wealthy older man, is discovered in his garden. While at first glance it appears that he missed his step while exiting into the garden and hit his forehead on a flowerbed rock, it is established that a safe installed in the living room has been emptied. It seems that, the night before, Maeda left the hospital he was staying at of his own will and came home, and was robbed immediately after returning. His daughter Yumie Nagano insists that Chikako Inui, a woman her father had been seeing, must be the perpetrator. She says that Maeda was thinking of getting married to Chikako soon. However, Chikako finds Yumie and her husband suspicious. Troubled by debts incurred by opening their ramen store, they pestered Maeda and he pushed them away. She calmly points out that Maeda gave her a will in which he left all of the 50 million plus yen hidden in the safe to her, so she had no reason to steal from him.

Yasutake Shingo works as a newspaper reporter but his life is stiffled and lifeless. That changes one day when he meets the irrepressible Matsunaga Chie by accident. Just as their relationship is blossoming however, Chie tells Shingo that she has breast cancer. Shingo determines to marry Chie right away, but she'll have to go through surgery and cancer treatments firs...

Drama sobre el desastre del terremoto causado en Japón en 2011. (FILMAFFINITY)

Shuichi Furukawa receives a phone call from his mother. She reminds him that they are moving the next day. The following day, Shuichi takes a train ride back to his hometown. He arrives at his parents home, but nobody is home. He looks for the house key under a potted plant but can't find the key. He starts to thinks back to his childhood days in his parents home. Shuichi grew up with his younger brother, older sister, father who ran a shoe making business out of their garage and mother. Shuichi grew up with a crush on an older woman who lived next door and he loved to make piggy banks out of empty whiskey bottles. One day on a school picnic, Shuichi's classmates grabbed a lunchbox from a fellow student and eventually gave the lunch box to Shuichi. All the other students chanted "throw it away," while Shuichi's former friend looked on in despair.

Aunque el apartamento 1303 es céntrico y bonito, todas las chicas que entran a vivir en él acaban saltando al vacío desde sus ventanas. La última en suicidarse ha sido Sayaka, y su hermana Mariko no logra comprender qué ha podido ocurrir; sólo piensa en la extraña expresión que tenía su hermana momentos antes de saltar. En su intento por encontrar una explicación, Mariko se muda al apartamento 1303, y descubre que entre las paredes del apartamento hay mucho más horror del que se puede ver, incluido el fantasma de su hermana, que lucha por descansar en paz. (FILMAFFINITY)

A portrait of an ordinary family that turns unstable when their frivolous son Shuji returns home after a long absence.

A young woman returns to the island where she grew up.

La historia de abandonar a la gente anciana en las montañas se ha preservado en la prefectura de Nagano, en el centro de Japón. Pero un gran número de leyendas similares pueden encontrarse, a modo de cuentos locales, aquí y allá, así como poemas escritos sobre este tema hace cientos de años. ¿Cómo se adapta este concepto a un mundo contemporaneo? En esta sociedad civilizada es imposible llevarse a los ancianos a la montaña. Y si alguien lo intenta, sería considerado un homicidio. La película muestra cómo se afronta este elemento social en la actualidad, comparado con la antigüedad.

A widow and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku people are forced to reside. The two boys are continuously harassed by their teachers and classmates through their childhood as a result of their Buraku heritage. In the midst of the 1918 Great Rice Riots in Osaka, Seitaro meets with Asako, the daughter of a rice shop owner, and falls in love with her. She too is of Buraku descent. At the same period, Hideaki, an old friend of the brothers returns to Komori, and he along with Koji and the townspeople create "Zenkoku Suiheisha", the National Levelers Association, an organization pledged to build a bridge over the river of discrimination, making all people equal in every way.

Producida por Coppola y Lucas, "Mishima" es un retrato biográfico del consagrado autor japonés Yukio Mishima. La película investiga la inquietud interior y las contradicciones de un hombre que trató de alcanzar una imposible armonía entre sí mismo, el arte y la sociedad. La trama se centra en el día en que Mishima conmocionó al mundo, al hacerse en público el seppuku o harakiri (25 de noviembre de 1970), en el Cuartel General del Ejército. El relato está salpicado de flashbacks para contar diversos episodios de su infancia, sus comienzos como escritor, el posterior triunfo profesional, su tranformación en estrella mediática, sus obsesiones por la belleza física y sus ambiguos gustos sexuales, así como la creación de la "Sociedad del Escudo". (FILMAFFINITY)

This is a sad and beautiful story about a father who is a popular comedian and a son who suffered by an incurable disease.

Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend Yamazaki who he knew since college. Yamazaki has a girl friend Riko who lives with her younger sister Yuko who's an actress. Yamazaki is a lyric writer/womanizer and he starts to have an affair with Masako, but he's still going out with Riko.

On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never gamble again. But, that night, Jirocho heads to a gambling den, where he bets the condolence money for his mother's funeral. No surprise to learn he loses the lot. Not the hard-boiled yakuza story it seems, this is a comedy featuring many new artists who were making a name for themselves at the time.

After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this project Akutsu becomes involved with Tae Makimura leading to his estrangement from his wife.

Based on a mystery by Taiwanese-Japanese author Chin Shun-shin. After two elderly men in Yokohama quarrel over a Yang dynasty artifact, one of the men turns up dead with mysterious claw marks across his face. A detective takes up the case, and uncovers secrets dating back to war crimes committed during Japan’s invasion of China in WWII.

A surreal period film following an university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.

After the war-time government orders the disbanding of the Big-Six baseball league, the teams of Waseda and Keio universities play one final game before they are drafted into the armed forces and face the hardships of military service.

UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new "blue-bloods" being persecuted by the rest of mankind, and eventually certain all-too-familiar measures begin to be taken against them.

The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.

Un mal policía participa en una violenta persecución para atrapar a un jefe yakuza. En su ausencia su esposa huye con otro hombre, que resulta ser el mismo hombre que él está persiguiendo. Cuando descubre esto, pierde los nervios y entrega su placa. La persecución se convierte en una venganza personal en la que el ex policía planea acabar con toda la pandilla.

Based on the life of artist Yumeji Takehisa

Toei studios last ninkyo eiga of the 70's.

Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy.

Vigésimo tercera de las veintiséis películas basadas en el personaje de Zatoichi interpretado por Shintarô Katsu. Zatoichi se encuentra en su camino a una mujer embarazada que acaba de ser atacada por un bandido. Las cosas se complican y Zatoichi debe hacer de comadrona en ese momento, pero la mujer muere durante el parto, y Zatoichi se encarga de llevar el bebé a su familia. Una vez encuentra a la familia del bebé, descubre que la mujer embarazada llevaba 20 ryus que debía pagar al jefe de una banda para que su cuñada no fuera obligada a ingresar en un burdel.

Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beautiful sister named Akane. He dreams of sending her to college and turning her into a perfect young lady. He's extremely fond of Akane. His fondness for her goes beyond how he feels about his mistress, Kanae. And yet, Akane feels alone. Now, a new tutor comes into her life that seems to have taken a liking to her...

Sátira anti-belicista que sigue la historia de un soldado que se da cuenta de que es un títere en manos de sus superiores, mostrando sus ridículas aventuras mientras se le entrena para convertirse en torpedo humano