Kôzô Shibasaki

En el Japón de la posguerra surge un nuevo terror. ¿Podrán sobrevivir las personas devastadas... y mucho menos defenderse?

Makoto Kashiba es un empleado bancario de élite y trabaja para un gran banco en su sede de Tokio. Debido a un pequeño error, lo degradan a una pequeña sucursal en una ciudad rural. Está devastado por su situación. Allí, conoce a la hermosa Yoshino Ikoma, que dirige una tienda de recogida de peces de colores. Makoto se enamora de ella a primera vista.

Three patients of different backgrounds, illnesses and stages are being treated at a psychiatric clinic in Nagano Prefecture. Their cases range from the criminal to merely asocial. That should be that, but soon matters take a darker turn when a corpse turns up and a murder has occurred. The culprit fingered is one of the patients.

Akira is widowed and left with a pre-teen stepson. Travelling with him to her late husband's hometown, she meets her odd father-in-law and yet decides to make a go of living and working there. She attends training and joins the railway company where her father-in-law works and her late man dreamt of ending up as a child.

Set in an alternate universe, the ancient capital of Kamakura is a vibrant town where fantastical creatures live alongside humans. Akiko is a cheerful publishing assistant who moves into town after marrying Masakazu, a popular mystery writer. Akiko is surprised by the unusual town but enjoys the new curiosities surrounding her. However, just as she was beginning to settle in, a trifling incident sweeps her spirit to the underworld too soon. Convinced that destiny has something else in store for his wife, Masakazu journeys into the underworld to bring back Akiko’s spirit.

La madre de Tomo, una niña de once años, deja su hogar por un tiempo indefinido. Tomo, acostumbrada a los abandonos temporales de su madre, acude a casa de su tío Makio. Allí descubre que vive con Rinko, su actual novia, que es una mujer transexual. Rinko trabaja como enfermera cuidadora y, entre otros pacientes, cuida de la madre de Makio y abuela de Tomo, que sufre de demencia. La situación confunde a Tomo pero, pese a ello, los tres empiezan una vida doméstica juntos.

Dos jóvenes hermanos, Kentaro y Keiko Saeki, empiezan a buscar información sobre su abuelo, que murió en las Fuerzas Especiales del ejército japonés durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Descubren que su abuelo, Kyuzo Miyabe, estaba aterrorizado por la muerte y obsesionado por mantener su vida. Según algunos de sus antiguos compañeros de combate fue un genio, según otros un cobarde. Kentaro y Keiko descubrirán una impactante verdad mantenida en secreto durante 60 años.

The Tokyo Olympics are about to open, and Rynosuke Chagawa is excited to receive a new TV set to watch the upcoming events. His wife Hiromi is pregnant and he has built a second level on his shop to provide his adopted son Junnosuke with a private space to study for entrance to Tokyo University to set up a career with a major company. He dreams of sparing Junnosuke the struggles that he has faced as a writer. The family continues to rely upon Hiromi's income from her bar. Meanwhile a rival story, The Virus, by a new writer has appeared in the periodical that has been publishing his stories "Boy's Adventure Book" and he fears the new competition. Norifumi Suzuki also receives a new TV, but more of a deluxe model. Mutsuko Hoshino (Roku) is still the principal mechanic in the Suzuki family's auto repair shop, but she dresses up some mornings to go to a nearby street with the hope of a "chance" meeting with Dr...

La película, ambientada hacia el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, se basa en la novela “Oba, the Last Samurai,” escrita por el exsoldado estadounidense Don Jones, para contarnos la historia de un conocido y temido capitán japonés llamado Sakae Oba (alias “Fox”), que de un simple profesor de geografía, acaba liderando los últimos combates contra las fuerzas de Estados Unidos en la batalla de Saipan. Oba dirigió una de las últimas unidades que quedaban en Saipan; él y un pequeño grupo de hombres utilizaron tácticas de guerrillas contra las fuerzas americanas intentando resistir, a pesar de que la derrota estaba casi asegurada.

Space Battleship Yamato nos situa en el año 2199, cinco años despues que apareciesen unos misteriosos alienigenas llamados Gamilas y empezasen a atacar a la Tierra con meteoritos gigantes y dejar su superficie totalmente inhabitable por culpa de la radiacion post-bélica. A la raza humana apenas le queda un año de vida cuando se recibe un enigmatico mensaje proveniente del lejano planeta Iscandar, asegurando que poseen un artilugio capaz de eliminar la radiacion de la Tierra y ofreciendo su ayuda a los humanos. Decididos a salvar el planeta, las Fuerzas de Defensa reconstruyen el acorazado espacial Yamato para poder realizar el increíble viaje que les llevara a mas de 150.000 años luz de distancia en busca de un desconocido planeta que puede ser la ultima esperanza para la raza humana y para la Tierra.

Would-be writer Ryunosuke Chagawa is still living across the street from Norifumi Suzuki and his auto repair shop, though now he shares his home with Junnosuke, an orphan he's taken under his wing at the urging of pretty Hiroi, who continues to manage a nearby tavern. Chagawa dreams of publishing a successful novel and settling down with Hiroi and Junnosuke, but his day job running the candy store keeps him busy, and Hiroi mistakes his tight schedule for a lack of interest in her. Hiroi has also embarked on a secret career as a burlesque dancer, which isn't doing much to improve her opinion of men. At the Suzuki household, seven-year-old Ippei isn't happy to be sharing the house with a guest, his distant cousin Mika who is the same age but far more demanding. Mutsuko, the apprentice female auto mechanic, is still staying with the Suzukis, and she's becomes the object of the affections of Takeo, a downbeat young man who is studying cooking.

Tomboy Yui (Mao Inoue) brings her 3 male friends along with her to see a live performance of local Okinawan rap group, “Workaholic”. Upon witnessing the crowd reaction, the boys decide to start a rap group of their own to impress chicks—while Toru (Hayato Ichihara) has the added motivation of impressing his older, more sophisticated love interest Nagisa (Ayumi Ito). With only 2 weeks to learn how to play instruments and prepare for their first show, the performance is predictably humiliating. In order to save pride they decide to give it another shot, but this time they ditch the instruments for a sampler and stay truer to themselves. Will Toru be able to capture Nagisa’s heart? Will Yui ever confess her love to Toru or will she just keep practicing her advanced pro wrestling techniques on him instead?

Dejando su hogar de provincias, la adolescente Mutsuko llega a Tokyo en tren para trabajar en una importante compañía de automóviles, pero se encuentra con que es contratada en un pequeño taller regentado por Norifumi Suzuki. El temperamento irritable de Suzuki se mantiene más o menos controlado por los instintos maternales de su esposa, Tomoe, y su joven hijo Ippei crea un vínculo inmediato con Mutsuko como si fuera su hermana mayor. El taller Suzuki está prácticamente a la sombra de la Torre Tokyo según se va levantando sobre el horizonte durante su construcción en 1958.

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.

A Japanese film by Hideyuki Hirayama, Lady Joker is a detective thriller with elements of social commentary on Japanese society that is based on the 1997 bestselling novel by Kaoru Takamura.

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.

A young boy, Masahiko Sakurai, grows up in Nagasaki where he sees the clear blue ocean everyday. His mother wants him to be a violinist. To make her dream come true, Masahiko goes to Tokyo to learn the violin, and stays with his aunt, Setsuko, in Kamakura near Tokyo. Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of Masashi Sada's novel of the same name received the 21st Japanese Cinema Reconstruction and Promotion Award and the 46th Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Office drama wherein a mediocre salaryman struggling hard to face a dream.

When pregnant lunchbox factory worker Yayoi has finally taken all the abuse she can handle, she strangles her brutish husband and disposes of the body parts, piece by piece. She's soon joined by three down on their luck housewives who murder their own husbands and find various ways to hide the evidence.

Año 2084. Después de décadas de sangrientas luchas, una fuerza invasora alienígena está a punto de destruir lo poco que queda del mundo. En un desesperado intento por salvar la raza humana, un soldado de la guerrilla, de nombre Miri, recurre a la máquina del tiempo. A sólo 72 horas del plazo límite previsto para el inicio de las Guerras Alienígenas, convence a Miyamoto, un francotirador experto en artes marciales, para que se una a su causa.

A young man named Teru, mentally altered by a childhood injury, runs a laundry and falls for Mizue, a lonely young woman who suffers from kleptomania. One day Mizue left one of her dresses behind in the machine that was stained with blood from her failed suicide attempt. Teru decides to find Mizue in order to return the dress, after having tried to desperately to wash off the blood stain. Soon thereafter Teru's grandmother dies, and her creditors repossess the home in which Teru was living in. The young couple turn to Sally for help. Sally is a caring man who trains pigeons for a living. Then one day, Sally leaves everything he owns to Teru and Mizue. They start a new life. Teru proposes to Mizue, but she refuses him. The more she is assured of Teru's pure heart, the more she feels she doesn't deserve it. Full of inner turmoil, Mizue begins shoplifting again.

11-year-old Yusuke and his classmates camp in the woods and see a strange light. They discover a small metallic object like a robot which talks, calls himself Tetra and knows Yusuke's name. Tetra can create wonderful gadgets but actually has to save the world with Yusuke's help from extraterrestrials with bad intentions.

During a quest to find a Taiwanese father's grave, disturbing memories of child abuse are aroused.

Toshiaki Nagashima is a biologist who is doing major research on mitochondria. When his beautiful young wife is tragically involved in a car accident which leaves her brain dead, in desperation he steals her liver from her body in order to recieve the mitochondria from it to resurrect his wife from the dead. The killer mitochondria takes the form of his assistant.

A young girl wanders into a wing of her elementary school that has been abandoned for years and is rumored to be haunted. When she doesn't come back, a group of her classmates go looking for her, only to find that they, too, are trapped inside. They must somehow find their way to safety, and quickly, because the rumors of ghosts are turning out to be true.

The Rinkaiji family, by all appearances, is a well-to-do Japanese family. The father, Nariyuki, works in an elite corporation, which gives his wife Yoshiko status in their suburban neighborhood. But the daughter Sugina, who herself has secretly stopped going to school because she is being bullied. One day, they discover that Nariyuki has quit his job. As Nariyuki decides to find a new job along with Sugina, Yoshiko, a firm believer in a life based on the company, soon finds her world falling apart.

The story of an unconventional teacher facing up to his unruly and apathetic class.