Ryo Kase

An eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a village population forty-seven in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is a geographic description of the work and non-work of a farmer. A portrait, over five seasons, of a family, of a terrain, of a soundscape, and of duration itself. A film-as-adaptive-landscape. A georgic in five books.

El fotógrafo de guerra W. Eugene Smith regresa a Japón a documentar los efectos devastadores del envenenamiento por mercurio en las comunidades costeras japonesas.

Yoko es una joven reportera japonesa cuya personalidad es puesta a prueba cuando viaja a Uzbekistán para grabar el último episodio de su serie de viajes alrededor del mundo.

Suzuki Koichi, a 30-something hikikomori shut-in, allows his mother to dotingly tend to his needs. When she discovers that Koichi has killed himself, the shock is so great she loses consciousness and her memory of that day.

Roxanne Coss (Julianne Moore) es una famosa soprano que viaja a un país de Sudamérica que permanece bajo una dictadura militar, para dar un concierto privado en una fiesta del rico industrial japonés Hosokawa (Ken Watanabe). Cuando la reunión de diplomáticos y políticos se celebra, la mansión es tomada por un grupo rebelde guerrillero que exige la liberación de sus compañeros encarcelados. Mientras permanecen secuestrados en la casa, rehenes y captores se verán obligados a encontrar la forma de entenderse.

In 1974, Morikazu is 94-years-old and his wife Hideko is 76-years-old. They live at a house in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. The garden at their home is full of trees, plants and insects. Morikazu paints pictures of the creatures in his garden and also observes them. This has been his daily routine for more than 30 years. Morikazu and Hideko entertain visitors every day including a photographer and the couple living next door.

The time spent between professional Shogi player Kiriyama and his three stories helps to heal his wounds. As he prepares to secure another win in an upcoming tournament, the father who left the three sisters appears and disturbs the peace.

Rei Kiriyama es un jugador de shogi (ajedrez japonés) de 17 años de edad. Debutó como un jugador shogi profesional cuando estaba en la escuela media. Vive solo en Tokio, porque sus padres y su hermana menor murieron en un accidente de tráfico cuando era pequeño. Un día, Rei Kiriyama se encuentra con tres hermanas que son sus vecinas. Las tres hermanas son Akari Kawamoto, Hinata Kawamoto y Momo Kawamoto. Este es su primer encuentro con alguien fuera del mundo shogi en muchos años. Tener comidas con la familia Kawamoto trae sentimientos cálidos a Rei Kiriyama. Como Rei Kiriyama continúa su carrera de shogi, sus interacciones con sus vecinos le permite crecer como un jugador shogi y como persona.

Dos sacerdotes jesuitas, Sebastião Rodrigues y Francis Garrpe, viajan al Japón del siglo XVII que, bajo el shogunato Tokugawa, prohibió el catolicismo y casi todos los contactos extranjeros. Allí son testigos de la persecución de los cristianos japoneses a manos de su propio gobierno que desea purgar Japón de toda influencia occidental. Eventualmente los sacerdotes se separan y Rodrigues viaja por el campo, preguntándose por qué Dios permanece en silencio mientras Sus hijos sufren.

While a gang of high school girls randomly beats lone men at night, the photo of a young woman who has been declared missing is used to design a template which is painted on each wall of a small suburban town.

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.

A biopic of seminal 20th century artist Leonard Foujita, a contemporary of Picasso and Modigliani, who was famous for mixing up European and Japanese styles.

Sachi, Yoshino y Chika son tres hermanas que viven en Kamakura, Japón, en la casa de su abuela. Un día, recibirán la noticia de la muerte de su padre, que las abandonó cuando eran pequeñas. En el funeral conocerán a la hija que su padre tuvo 13 años atrás y pronto las cuatro hermanas empezarán a vivir juntas.

Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed for lack of references, Haruko's strong accent intrigues a linguistics professor, who undertakes to coach her.

Kwon returns to Seoul from a restorative stay in the mountains. She is given a packet of letters left by Mori, who has come back from Japan to propose to her. Kwon drops and scatters the letters, all of which are undated. When she reads them, she has to make sense of the chronology.

Minori Oyamada, a put-upon editor at a travel-guide publishing company, is asked by an old friend to plan her forthcoming wedding party in Hawaii. After persuading her boss that it will be a work trip, Minori departs for Hawaii with the intention to find and marry a rich man. But when Minori arrives, she encounters three different men who complicate her original goal...

A major advertising festival is held each year to determine the best television commercial in the world. A rookie ad man at a big advertising company named Otan is selected as a judge on the festival jury. Meanwhile, a coworker also named Ota (although the Japanese characters are slightly different) poses as his wife so that he can attend an open party which is held nightly. Knowing that he’ll get fired if his company doesn’t win the Grand Prix, he’s forced to resort to a variety of desperate tactics.

Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysterious white man which are all mentioned in the movie "SPEC: Heaven".

Laid-back baby boomer Yuichi (Ryo Iwamatsu) is a middle-aged manga artist and singer-songwriter when he isn't at his salaryman day job or watching out for his elderly mother. Suffering from increasing dementia since her husband's death, Mitsue (Harue Akagi) is a constant source of comic energy or annoyance for Yuichi, and he and his son must soon decide if they should put her in a home for the elderly. Jumping back in time, we see how Mitsue (played by Kiwako Harada) tracked the tumult of the latter half of the 20th century, being raised as one of 10 brothers and sisters, surviving the war, and having to push her alcoholic husband (Ryo Kase) along in life. "Pecoross" is directed by the oldest active film director in Japan, Azuma Morisaki, who creates an emotionally complex work that is only the more profound and life-affirming for its cartoonish portrayal.

Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysterious white man which are all mentioned in the movie "SPEC: Heaven".

High school student Saya Toma lost her parents and younger brother in an airplane accident. Detective Akio Kondo came and told her "your family has a high possibility that they were killed by people who have spec." That was the first time she heard of "spec". 6 years later, Saya Toma, who has never forgotten what the Detective said, decides to become a detective. She returns to Japan after receiving training by the FBI in the United States. Saya Toma is assigned to work unsolved cases in the Public Security Bureau. Meanwhile, because of Satoshi Chii's scheme, Juichi Ninomae considers Saya Toma his parents' enemy and tries to push her to the edge. Satoshi Chii's scheme has also caused Saya Toma and Juichi Ninomae to forget that they are brother and sister. The siblings are headed to a life-staking fight. A girl named Maho Ueno becomes involved in their fight. To protect Maho Ueno, Saya Toma uses "spec".

Keisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan’s most respected legends of cinema. Made to commemorate the centenary of Kinoshita’s birth, this biographical drama chronicles formative hardships and personal encounters to provide a rare glimpse into the life of one of Japan’s most acclaimed screen directors. Includes archival footage from 49 of the films he produced during his career at Shochiku.

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.

Hitoshi Nagano, who works at an electronics store, picks up a cellphone left behind by a customer and goes about a scam. He calls the person's mother and pretends to be her son. He then gets the mother to transfer money to his bank account. Soon, Hitoshi gets a lot more than he bargained for.

Una joven estudiante japonesa se prostituye en Tokio para pagar sus estudios. Inesperadamente encuentra una sorprendente ternura de parte de un cliente de avanzada edad.

Otomo sale de la cárcel dispuesto a derrocar al clan Sanno, que lo dio por muerto años atrás. A esta venganza personal se suma una guerra entre familias rivales y, también, la ofensiva de las fuerzas de la ley contra el crimen organizado.

Saya Toma is a female detective with an IQ of 201. Takeru Sebumi is a career detective with a distinguished background. They work on cases by postulating the "SPEC" of the unknown criminals and then deduce the criminal's unknown "SPEC" to make arrests. A mystery occurs when bodies are found on a cruiser in the ocean. Saya Toma and Ryo Kase of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department are brought in to solve the case.

Set one year after the fight between detectives Saya Toma, Takeru Sebumi, and Satoshi Chii. More confrontations ensues between the detectives at the Unidentified Crimes Unit of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Takeru Sebumi returns after taking a break due to his eye problems. Kenzo Ichiyanagi is appointed section chief, while Kotaro Nonomura is demoted. New member Shu Kikkawa joins the team.

In Tokyo, actress Touko leaves the filming set of her latest project and comes across three people by random chance: she gives a ride to a man named Nagano, whom she has never met before; at a small theater, runs into Kikuchi, a former screenwriter; lastly, meets Yasuko at the zoo.

Narra la historia de amor de una joven pareja. Ella (Mia Wasikowska) es una enferma terminal que se enamora de un chico (Henry Hopper) al que le gusta asistir a funerales. Ambos se encontrarán además con el fantasma de un piloto kamikaze japonés (Ryo Kase) de la II Guerra Mundial. (FILMAFFINITY)

24-year-old OL Chie Ikeshita's (Yuriko Yoshitaka) motto is to try various things to enjoy life. Chie spends her time accordingly to her motto. Chie Ikeshita then starts to date 5 different men and adjusts herself to the different situations. Up to this point, Chie never thought about marriage. She changes her thought after her friend Toshiko Hamaguchi (Anne Watanabe) gets married. Chie takes the advise of Toshiko and decides to marry one of the 5 men. She must now whittle down her choice to one man.

The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go up a mountain to see the first sunrise of the year. Meanwhile, Haruo has inherited his family's gas business, but things aren't going well in his new endeavor and he becomes increasingly frustrated.

Blessed with several large rivers, interconnected streams and springs, Japan's ancient capital, Kyoto, anoints the land with a bountiful source of water. In this tranquil setting, three women join the flow of a small community with the subtle presence of a spring breeze. Setsuko , the proprietor of a whiskey-only bar; Takako, the owner of a coffee shop along the waterway; Hatsumi, a maker of tofu so delicious it seems to spring forth from the clear water. Under their subtle influence, other townspeople gradually begin their own streams too: Yamanoha, a local worker for a furniture workshop; Otome, the owner of a neighborhood public bath; Jin, a young man who assists him at the bath; Makoto, a wayfarer about the town. Among their daily lives, there is Poplar, a small child with a perpetually friendly smile.

Four short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers.

Varios clanes yakuza se enfrentan en una lucha implacable por alcanzar el poder y la protección del Padrino. Durante muchos años, Otomo ha visto cómo progresaban sus colegas: de los tatuajes elaborados y las falanges seccionadas han pasado a las altas finanzas. Dentro de un mundo donde reinan la corrupción, la traición y la venganza, sus esfuerzos por llegar a la cima, o al menos sobrevivir, no tienen fin porque en ese mundo no existen los héroes.

Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she discovers Tetsuro is terminally ill. Tetsuro’s impending death marks the beginning of love and toleration.

A story of 6 days with 5 people gathered around a small sparkling pool at Chiang Mai in Thailand. 4 years ago, Kyoko started to live in Thailand and has been working in a Guest house outside in Chiang Mai, leaving her mother and her daughter Sayo, in Japan. Just before the graduation of University, Sayo sets foot on Thailand to visit her mother with mixed feelings. However, emotional experiences with the people living there changes such feelings toward her mother.

On the outset, the Okunos seem like a normal happy family with father Tadashi and his two bright sons, genetics researcher Izumi and artsy Haru. When a series of arson attacks strike the neighborhood, clues left at the crime scenes seem to be somehow related to the Okunos. Izumi and Haru try to get to the bottom of mystery, slowly unveiling a tragic family secret that has come back to haunt them.

A woman finds out her father is not her real one after her mother falls into a coma while searching for a mythical creature. She decides to meet her real father who happens to be an off-beat antique shopkeeper.

A salaryman debates selling his grandfather's land to pay off his father's debt.

There once was a hospital where patients and even doctors & nurses were all weird. Above all, Onuki, a patient who built up his company all by himself from scratch, is a super cranky old man. One day, he meets up a girl called Paco, who cannot retain memory beyond one day due to a car accident. She is reading the same picture book everyday. Onuki starts bonding with Paco after some incident, and begins to doubt his way of living. He starts wanting to do something for Paco with his remaining life, and comes up with a brilliant idea. This pleases Paco, but their fate is?

Asako, a comic book artist in her early forties, is devastated by the death of her precious cat, Saba, which kept her company for over 15 years, as her assistant Naomi watches on with concern. Naomi is a young woman in her early twenties, who has her set of worries about love and future. Then one day, Asako meets a new cat, Gu Gu, which brings new joy and vitality to her life. What is more, she finds potential for love in a man named Seiji. Like Asako, Naomi, too, embarks on a new life plan.

The anthology film R246 Story centers around the major Japanese highway Route 246. Originating in Chiyoda Ward's Miyakezaka district, the 122.7 kilometers long Route 246 passes through Japanese trendsetting areas such as Aoyama, Omotesando, Harajuku, and Shibuya, on its way to Numazu City in Shizuoka Prefecture.

Tokio es una antología de tres cortometrajes de los directores Michel Gondry (Francia), Leos Carax (Francia) y Joon-ho Bong (Corea), cada uno de los cuales ofrece una visión imaginativa y transnacional / sobrenatural de la Megapolis de Tokio.

En un mundo en el que al fin se ha instaurado la paz, la única manera de preservarla es mantener una guerra televisada. Un espectáculo cuyos protagonistas son los "Kildren", jóvenes nacidos y entrenados para combatir a bordo de sus aviones, y para morir jóvenes.

Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure the tragedy of their first child’s death, hope slowly unfolds and their love story flickers to life once again.

Tokuichi y Fukuichi son dos masajistas ciegos que ejercen su oficio en las fuentes termales de la Península de Izu, en el Japón de los años 30. Ambos han desarrollado un sexto sentido para percibir cosas que un vidente es incapaz de ver. Estos poderes sensoriales impresionan a los turistas de un balneario estival, entre los cuales hay grupos de excursionistas, un niño acompañado de su tío, y un misterioso ladrón, pero Tokuichi solo está pendiente de una belleza procedente de Tokio. Remake del film de 1938 "The Masseurs and a Woman" de Hiroshi Shimizu.

Cuenta la historia de Akari (Mayuko Fukuda), una niña de 14 años y de una cachorra que encuentra en su patio. Como la perrita tiene marcas blancas en sus patas, Akari la llama Calcetines. La madre de Akari acepta que Calcetines forme parte de la familia con la única condición de que Akari cumpla "Las 10 Promesas" - los 10 mandamientos que hay que seguir por ser dueño de un perro. Desde ese entonces, comienza una amistad de 10 años llena de alegrías como de contratiempos que ponen a prueba el compromiso de Akari de cumplir "Las 10 Promesas".

Based on the short story from the best-selling collection "Poppoya" by Jiro Asada, "The Invitation from Cinema Orion" tells the story of a couple's undying love for the cinema and each other.

Taeko, una profesora urbanita un tanto estresada, llega a un pequeño hotel junto al mar para pasar unas vacaciones. Regentado por el excéntrico Yuji, frecuentado por Haruna y espiritualmente inspirado por la misteriosa Sakura, el lugar funciona como un pequeño microcosmos donde los móviles no funcionan, echarse la siesta es casi obligatorio y la vida transcurre entre helados de judía roja, gimnasia matutina en la playa y cenas a base de langosta.

Kaneko Teppei es un joven japonés normal y corriente. Trabaja a tiempo parcial, hace vida en Tokyo e intenta descubrir qué le espera en la vida. Finalmente, tras armarse de valor para ir a su primera entrevista de trabajo, es acusado por una joven colegiala de haberla manoseado en el metro. Él proclama su inocencia desesperadamente, pero a la policía sólo le interesa forzarle a hacer una confesión falsa, pagar una multa y cerrar rápidamente el caso. Antes de que se dé cuenta de lo que está pasando, su persistencia en afirmar su inocencia le sumirá en una odisea kafkiana de burocracia judicial.

Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Rodada íntegramente en japonés, la película ofrece la versión nipona de la batalla de Iwo Jima, el episodio más cruento de la guerra del Pacífico, en el que murieron más de 20.000 japoneses y 7.000 estadounidenses. El objetivo de la batalla para los japoneses era conservar un islote insignificante, pero de gran valor estratégico, pues desde allí defendían la integridad de su territorio. El mismo año, Eastwood dirigió también "Banderas de nuestros padres", que narra la misma batalla desde el punto de vista norteamericano. La versión japonesa muestra cómo el general Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe) organizó la resistencia a través de un sistema de túneles. Décadas después, varios cientos de cartas son desenterradas del suelo de esa inhóspita isla. Las cartas ponen cara y voz a los hombres que allí lucharon, así como al extraordinario general que los dirigió.

Yakuza Naoki Sando (Yosuke Natsuki) discovers his daughter Hiroko (Kumi Kaneko) in bed with his adopted son Kohji (Yusuke Iseya). Three years later, Kohji is working the streets as a hustler, still yearning for a way to earn his estranged father's approval to continue his borderline incestuous relationship. Hiroko sees a way back to her brother's arms when Sando's shady colleague Marc Tanner (François Trottier) absconds to Canada with gambling funds destined for the big boss. Presumably with her father's permission, she calls Kohji and tells him to hurry to Montréal, recover the money and kill Tanner.

The bestseller based on Kotaro Isaka, starring Kenji Sakaguchi, directed by Takashi Hara! Muto, who works for a family court, is involved in a bank robbery case with his senior at work, Jinnai. It is released safely, but Muto falls in love at first sight with Miharu, who was held hostage with him. Jinnai predicts Muto that he will meet her again and fall in love, and teaches Miharu's whereabouts. Meanwhile, the day after the incident, Muto was in charge of a boy named Shiro Kihara, who was guided by shoplifting. However, there was something wrong with Shiro's appearance toward his father. Then, Muto learns about Shiro's amazing secret, and the development itself begins suddenly...

Follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with the responsibilities in their lives.

El detective Yoshioka intenta atrapar a un peligroso asesino en serie. La investigación toma un rumbo inquietante cuando sus propias huellas y varios objetos que le pertenecen aparecen en el lugar de los crímenes y hasta en los cadáveres de las víctimas. Todos los que le rodean empiezan a sospechar de él a medida que todo se torna más y más confuso para Yoshioka. Presente y pasado se funden en una especie de mundo paralelo que lo alejan cada vez más de la realidad. (FILMAFFINITY)

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.

En el siglo XVIII, los samuráis que llevaban a cabo actos de venganza eran compensados económicamente por los clanes a los que pertenecían. Un joven samurái que llega a Edo (actual Tokio) con el propósito de vengar a su difunto padre busca a su enemigo por toda la ciudad. El problema es que, además no saber manejar la espada, no tiene realmente ganas de ejecutar su misión. Alojado en una vivienda pobre, pero rica en relaciones humanas, aprende a apreciar de la vida y empieza a cuestionarse el sentido de la venganza.

Un chico y una chica se encuentran cerca de la puerta de la escuela después de clase. Yu es una chica tímida de 17 años que se sienta al lado de Yosuke. Este ha dejado los deportes, para dedicarse por entero a la guitarra. Únicamente repite unos pocos compases una y otra vez, tratando de hacer una canción que exprese como se siente. Su relación progresa de forma dubitativa, porque ambos tienen dificultad para expresar sus emociones y sentimientos.

Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes increasingly isolated at school and drifts into criminal activity.

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.

An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.

The lives of a young cop, a sanitation worker and a brooding pharmacist violently intersect on a bus that's hijacked by a suicidal political flunky, then cross paths again months later.

'Female' is comprised of five short films adapted from five novels by female authors. Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto, Tetsuo Shinohara, Ryuichi Hiroki, Miwa Nishikawa, and Suzuki Matsuo.

Three stories are told, respectively set in Tokyo, Taipei, and Shanghai. The first two stories are about a Japanese person and a Taiwanese person. The last one is set in Shanghai with a story about a Japanese man and a Chinese woman. Some of the characters can speak Japanese and some of them Mandarin. Each story encompasses an experience of a foreigner, either from Japan ,Taiwan or China, with a native of the opposite country.

Romeo, A.K.A. Kosuke Matsuyama, is a second-year high school student. A nice, normal, nonviolent type, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a rampaging crowd of Korean boys, outraged by insults perpetrated by several of his idiotic class-mates on two Korean girls. He makes a narrow escape, but soon after, he and his best bud Yoshio are sent by their home-room teacher to invite the Korean students to a friendly soccer game as a way of restoring the peace.

The making of the movie "Nobody Knows" by award-winning director Hirokazu Kore-eda.

Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens it is discovered that one of the victims isn't related to the family.

Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one and other eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.

En Tokyo, la imprudente madre soltera Keiko se muda a un pequeño apartamento con su hijo de doce años Akira Fukushima y, ocultos en maletas, sus hermanos Kyoko, Shigeru y Yuki. Los niños tienen diferentes padres y no van al colegio, pero llevan una vida feliz con su madre. Cuando Keiko encuentra un nuevo novio deja a los niños solos, dándole algo de dinero a Akira para que se encarge de sus hermanos. Cuando el dinero se acaba, Akira se las apaña para encontrar formas de sobrevivir con los pequeños sin electricidad, gas o agua en casa, y con el dueño pidiendo el alquiler.

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.

Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater, and rock music, and develop their project into a school road block. This plan however catches the attention of television stations and newspapers, and soon even the cops became involved in this teenage adventure.

When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation to save him. Meanwhile the same crime group has been responsible for a number of other crime sprees across Tokyo. In the process, Honey teams up with the seemingly cold police woman Natsuko Aki and hot shot journalist Seiji Hayami as well as battle the four "claws" of the Panther Claw gang to save her uncle and the rest of the city.

Yuichiro is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs over him like a pall as he wanders Japan's S&M clubs. But his younger brother claims to be able to sense their sister with his "antenna".

A very energetic, fresh and skilful début in DV from young Tokyo actor and model. Hanging out, clubbing and drugging, a young band of friends get way in over their heads when they inadvertently lose a stash of drugs they're meant to deal to their friends.

Japanese TV movie from 2003

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.

Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They become fascinated with a deadly jellyfish.

Record shop clerk and aspiring DJ Tsutomu searches for his masculinity when challenged to a kendo duel.

Kenji has a dull life. He is unmotivated at the office, and unable to break off a lukewarm relationship with his girlfriend. Then, he meets an old classmate from high school, Ryoichi. Ryoichi says he's starting up a clothing brand with a group of friends. One day, Kenji visits their atelier, or workplace, and is fascinated by the sense of freedom that they share. As his relationship with them deepens, Kenji finds it harder and harder to accept the old world he comes from. One day, he punches his boss and quits his job. Now a proper member of Ryoichi's team, it's the start of a new and carefree life for him. However, it is short-lived. The clothes they make do not sell as well as they hoped for. Short on cash, energy, and ideas, the negative feedback loop forces each of them to start struggling in a search for alternative paths.

En los años 50, la capital de Japón fue atacada y casi destruida por Godzilla. Desde entonces, Japón ha disfrutado de un gran periodo de paz, pero esa paz se ve alterada cuando un submarino del ejército japonés detecta una extraña silueta en el fondo del mar que recuerda a Godzilla. Nadie acepta tal posibilidad, excepto el Comandante Tachibana quien, en su niñez, fue testigo del ataque de Godzilla, por lo que no descarta el regreso del monstruo atómico.

Tells the life story of Teru Kaneko, who was born and raised in a small coastal town. While working as a clerk in a book shop, Teru starts writing her own verses to get away from the worries of a disgraceful marriage. Under the pseudonym Misuzu, her works arrive to an important editor in Tokyo.

Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism. His faith in pacifism, however, is shaken and ultimately broken by the attacks from a trio of fighters known only as the demons. Taking up his sword once more, he sets out to end their murderous terror.

Naoya and Katsuhiro are boyfriends, new in their relationship. Things are uneven at first—Naoya is open and free while Katsuhiro is cautious and closeted—but nothing compares to the chaos that arrives when Asako, a troubled woman with a history of psychiatric problems, abortions, and casual sex, asks Katsuhiro to conceive a child with her.

Short film directed by Kurosawa Kiyoshi as part of the 学校の怪談物の怪スペシャル series centered around the legend of Hanako san.

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.