Jitsuko Yoshimura

A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in similar circumstances a suspect is identified leading to the accused running away and going into hiding.

Mayu es la encargada de cuidar a una chica que sufre de amnesia. La paciente está bajo custodia policial y es de especial interés para las autoridades. Sin embargo, sus allegados desconocen el porqué de esta situación, e incluso la propia sospechosa ignora los motivos por los que está siendo vigilada 24h. Mientras Mayu se desvive por realizar su trabajo, su hermano, un aspirante a convertirse en un personaje famoso en redes sociales, comienza a darse cuenta de que ha dado con un filón que tratará de aprovechar a toda costa.

Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the concept of the bad girl in Japan as a product of specific cultural assumptions and historical settings, Bad Girls of Japan maps new roads and old detours in revealing a disorderly politics of gender. The essays explore deviancy in richly diverse media. Mountain witches, murderers, performance artists, cartoonists, schoolgirls, and shoppers gone wild are all part of the terrain.

Una joven llamada Oshin es enviada a trabajar para otra familia, a causa de la situación financiera de su familia. Sin embargo, la niña es una gran luchadora y procurará conseguir todo aquello que se proponga a pesar de las dificultades.

Death-row inmate Sudo (Pierre Taki) sends a letter to magazine reporter Fujii (Takayuki Yamada). In his letter, he states that a man named Kimura (Lily Franky), also known as "teacher," committed numerous murders for insurance money. While checking out the story, based on Sudo's tip, Fuji becomes convinced that the letter is correct. But, a lot of time has passed from the incidents and Sudo's testimony isn't clear. Due to the persistance of Sudo, who is a former yakuza, and Fuji, the police begin to move.

Based on the true story of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada who has spent over 40 years incarcerated on death row. Iwao Hakamada was arrested for the June 10, 1966 murder of a family in Shizuoka . Iwao Hakamada has always insisted on his innocence and many others also believe Iwao Hakamada has been falsely accused ...

A young couple go on the run after the murder of his mother.

Two newlyweds decide to build their dream home, and hire an old friend named Yanagisawa to design it. Unfortunately, Yanagisawa isn’t licensed to build homes, so they call in the wife’s father, a retired carpenter, to help out. When Yanagisawa’s contemporary ideas clash with the old carpenter’s traditional Japanese methods, the project becomes a huge mess.

Thirty years after graduation, a man and a woman meet again at an alumni reunion. They are no longer young, but the moment she sees him, memories of her first love are revived. Her love for him has never faded even though she married another man and bore his child. What has kept her going is a white shell the boy gave her and a phrase of Jean Cocteau's poem, "My ears are shells, fondly hearing the sound of the sea..." She gets a divorce, returns to her hometown and opens a bar named "Coquille," which means "shell." Without their knowing, an unexpected turn of events awaits the two...

Based on the long running manga of the same name by Sadao Shouji.

Movie adaptation of a novel by Rampo Edogawa.

An old man falls into a coma and dreams about his childhood during WWII.

From the point-of-view of the children, "Mother" tells the story of the most unappreciated, loving and giving mother, who would sacrifice her own life, and sometimes the life of others, for her loved ones. In the autumn of 1955, a family of five children is living in the Tohoku area. In order to take care of her paralysed husband, the mother has to sacrifice her five children by giving them away. The children has to suffer all the loneliness and hardships that this decision has brought them. 15 years have passed, all five of them have got married. Now, they come to understand that their mother's love for them was the greatest love of all.

Por momentos trágico y trascendente, la película de Akira Kurosawa sigue la vida cotidiana de un grupo de personas que apenas se arrastran en un barrio pobre en las afueras de Tokio. Sin embargo, por desesperadas que sean sus circunstancias, cada uno de ellos, el padre y el hijo sin hogar imaginando la casa de sus sueños; la joven maltratada por su tío; el niño que se imagina a sí mismo como conductor de un tranvía, encuentra razones para continuar. El inolvidable Dodes’ka-den se hizo en un momento tumultuoso en la vida de Kurosawa. Y todas sus esperanzas, miedos y pasión artística se muestran fervientemente en esta, su primera película en color gloriosamente filmada.

Tres personas del futuro, que viajan espiritualmente a la época de la reina egipcia Cleopatra VII Philopator y sus amantes romanos Julio César y Marco Antonio, se convierten en sus amigos más cercanos mientras intentan desentrañar la naturaleza del plan desarrollado en su propio tiempo por un siniestro enemigo.

If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the throngs of young people who missed out on the boom. We follow a group of young men that can't seem to get ahead, despite their willingness to try. Then one hits upon a plane - to work together to save for a dump truck and thus become independent contractors and be their own bosses at last. Ultimately life presents obstacles: jail for one, violence at the hands of the police for another and a girlfriend and subsequent children for the third. An early Kinji Fukasaku gem that imports the freewheeling style of the French New Wave and the hip detachment of American noir.

En la época de decadencia del shogunato de los Tokugawa, el emperador enviaba tropas a los pueblos para liberar a los siervos del Shogun. Gonzo, un soldado que formaba parte de esas tropas, tras llegar a las cercanías de su pueblo, decide adelantarse y hacerse pasar por el capitán para difundir un mensaje. Pero en el pueblo tendrá que lidiar con los comerciantes corruptos y el actual administrador jefe

A woman has a brief, intense affair with a younger man while awaiting her trial for the murder of her husband's mistress.

Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismissed the force when his pistol is stolen while doing one of his good deeds. He saves a child from drowning, restores it to his mother, then finds that someone has run off with his gun and later uses it to kill. Then he breaks up a group of hoodlums attacking a young girl named Mieko, and the police, his former friends, deciding he has gone too far, decide to sue him. On top of this the girl gets hurt and, consequently, a child from the kindergarten where Mieko teaches is kidnapped on his way home. Impersonating a policeman he tracks down the gangsters and rescues the boy. Due to this he also uncovers a scandal which allows the police to make a long due clean up in the political world. As a reward for all of this he wins the regard of the girl but now faces a stiff prison sentence for impersonating the policeman he had been and which, at heart, he truly remains.

Japan-Hong Kong co-production.

Una organización que opera desde Tokio quiere vender a los Estados Unidos un arma secreta por cien millones de dólares. Si no aceptan comprarla, amenazan con destruir las bases americanas. Un agente especial, conocido por la clave OSS-117, es enviado para abortar los planes criminales.

Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of her innocence and illusions.

Los años de guerra llegan a su fin en un Japón unificado bajo el Shogunato Tokugawa. El espía Sasuke Sarutobi, cansado del conflicto, desea la paz pero otro importante espía llamado Tatewaki Koriyama planea abandonar al shogun por un clan rival, convulsionando el oscuro mundo de los espías.

The last judgment.

Mientras su hijo, Kichi, está en guerra, una mujer y su nuera sobreviven matando a samuráis que se pierden en su pantano y luego vendiendo los objetos de valor que encuentran. Ambos quedan devastados cuando se enteran de que Kichi ha muerto, pero su esposa pronto comienza una aventura con un vecino que sobrevivió a la guerra, Hachi. La madre lo desaprueba y, cuando no puede robarse a Hachi, intenta asustar a su nuera con una misteriosa máscara de un samurái muerto.

Película que sigue la vida de Tome, mujer nacida en una familia de clase baja en 1918, que desde pequeña, sufre los maltratos de su padrastro. De joven, emigra de su pueblo natal para ir a trabajar a una fábrica donde mantiene una aventura con su jefe, y posteriormente ganarse la vida como criada y, finalmente, prostituta.

Kinta, un matón adolescente, está entusiasmado porque ha conseguido trabajo como supervisor de la piara de una base americana local, con el cual podrá desviar comida al mercado negro y conseguir unos buenos ingresos para su banda yakuza. Su novia Hiroku espera que deje la yakuza y consiga un trabajo honesto, aunque ella no sea un ejemplo de virtud, trabajando como prostituta. La trama sigue esta relación complicada, con el trasfondo de la corrupción, con el resultado del choque de las fuerzas de ocupación contra la pobreza y las aspiraciones del país nipón tras la guerra.

Dos amigos dejan su pueblo para combatir con su ejército. Ambos, tras una derrota en el frente, se cobijan en la solitaria casa de Oko, una viuda que vive con su hija. Matachachi dejará que Oko le seduzca y, junto con ella y su hija se irá a Tokio, olvidando a su prometida...