Shinobu Otake

La película muestra el crecimiento psicológico de un adolescente a través de interacciones con sus amigos y su tío. Está basada en el libro de 1937 del mismo nombre escrito por Genzaburo Yoshino.

Shogo Kanetaka es un agente de policía que sufre un trauma tras el asesinato de su amada. Desde ese horrible momento, Shogo solo piensa en vengarse. Recibe entonces la orden de ir de incógnito como miembro de la yakuza. La policía encarga a Shogo que se pelee con Hideki Murooka, miembro de la yakuza, como trampolín para entrar en la organización. La policía tiene datos que demuestran que Shogo coincide con Hideki al 98 %. Mientras tanto, Hideki es hijo de un condenado a muerte. Tiene una condición física que le hace tener siempre hambre y comer constantemente. Además, ni él ni la yakuza pueden controlar sus emociones.

La historia nos lleva a la vida cotidiana de una niña de 17 años que perdió su hogar y su familia a causa de los eventos que azotaron la región de Tohoku. Así comienza a vivir con una nueva familia en una casa antigua con vista al mar.

La historia se centra en Nikuko y su hija, Kikuko. Ambas viven en un barco debido a diversas circunstancias. La vida diaria bajo ese techo les hará vivir diversos problemas y experiencias que las ayudarán a crecer como familia.

Typically thieves enter a house, steal things and get out. This time an unsuspecting thief enters a home to steal as much as he can and instead is faced with an occupant inside the house. There is a woman within who is going to commit a murder. She is also about to set the place ablaze. The thief stops her and in the process the criminal becomes the one stopping a crime. The situation is connected to a case from some twenty years go.

A mother and son are eating sushi at a conveyer belt sushi bar in Tokyo. This film depicts their conversation using cutout animation.

Hironoshin is a samurai of the Echigo-Nagaoka clan. One day, Hironoshin attends a party at a mansion in Edo where his lord, Tadakiyo is invited to recite poems. Hironoshin is asked to give his opinion and foolishly comments that the piece was plagiarized. Infuriated, Tadakiyo orders Hironoshin to live his life without honor as a ‘cat flea picker', which is in fact a pseudonym for a male prostitute. The honest and straight-shooting Hironoshin convinces himself that he has no other options, and resigns himself to live as a sex worker. Hironoshin becomes an apprentice to a flea-picker boss who encourages him, convinced that Hironoshin is exacting revenge in the guise of a prostitute.

Mary es una niña que vive con su tía abuela Charlotte en el campo, donde no pasa casi nada. Un día sigue a un misterioso gato hasta el bosque y descubre un viejo palo de escoba y una extraña flor que sólo florece cada siete años en ese mismo bosque. El palo de escoba y la flor llevarán a Mary por encima de las nubes hasta llegar a Endor College, una escuela de magia dirigida por Madam Mumblechook y el brillante Doctor Dee. Pero allí suceden cosas terribles y después de mentir, Mary tendrá que arriesgar su vida para que todo vaya bien.

Set at the end of the Sengoku period to early Edo period, "Sanada Ten Braves" follows 10 members of a ninja group who all serve under samurai warrior Yukimura Sanada.

Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and eventually marries her. Not longer after their marriage, Kozo Nakase suddenly collapses and dies. Kozo Nakase leaves everything to Sayako. The rest of his family are left out of his will including his daughter Tomomi. Tomomi hires a private investigator, Honda, to find out more about Sayoko.

Set in the year 2265. There is a small restaurant along the main road Galaxy Kaido, which connects Earth and the space colony Uzushio.

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.

Hiroshi has given up on his dreams of becoming a painter and works part-time cleaning office windows. He learns that he has only 3 months left to live. During his last summer, high school student Mai appears. Hiroshi becomes attracted to her.

Junior high school student Yuna lives with her father Toshiharu. Her mother Akemi moved to Naha when her older sister entered high school, and Yuna is worried about her father's life after she leaves.

Matsuoi and his wife Tsuya moved to Oshima City because of her unpredictable character. Even though Tsuya continues to have affairs, Matsuoi loves her and is a devoted husband. Tsuya is then diagnosed with a cancer and later goes into a coma. Matsuoi then thinks of his wife's lovers. Matsui goes to those men and informs them of Tatsuya's condition. The other women in the lives of those men are shocked and begin to re-examine their views of their men.

Ushibuka in Amakusa City prospered a century ago with its fishing industry and red-light district, but has become Japan's fastest declining city. Homemaker Yumie wants to revive the town she loves, and invites her friends to realize an unusual plan at a former brothel built a century ago.

A nostalgic human drama based on Dazai Osamu Prize winner Tsujiuchi Tomoki's novella. Set in a declining coal-mining town in 1950s Fukuoka, the story depicts a rambunctious but pure-hearted young boy in love with an older woman. Director Hirayama Hideyuki and writer Chong Wishing, both from Begging for Love (Ai o kou hito), join hands again to make this film. Michiyo (Koyuki) has left Tokyo for Fukuoka with her son Mamoru (Ikematsu Sosuke) after divorcing her husband. The story follows Mamoru's memories of his time spent with the notorious rebel Shinichi (Ishida Takuya), who stood up for him against bullies.

Drama sobre los efectos de la segunda guerra mundial. La acción comienza en 1944, cuando el soldado Sadazo Morikawa recibe una emocionante postal de su esposa Tomoko, justo en la noche antes de partir al frente en Filipinas. Para evitar la censura militar, y temiendo que no fuera a sobrevivir al combate, Morikawa le pide a otro soldado que vuelve a Tokyo, Keita Matsuyama, que le entregue a su esposa en mano la postal con la respuesta.

Una hermosa madre y sus dos hijas dirigen un bar en una ciudad. Sueñan con hacerse ricos, reformar el edificio y vivir como celebridades. Sin posibilidad de que su sueño se hiciera realidad con solo sus ganancias diarias, tenían otra cara: cegar a los ancianos con su belleza, obtener cobertura de seguro y buscar hacerse rico rápidamente asesinando. Sin embargo, su esquema comienza a colapsar por un pequeño error.

Tsukiko, whose father died before she was born, lives with her mother Yoko and they provide mutual support for each other. One day, Yoko comes home completely drunk with Kenji, a young man with blond hair, and tells Tsukiko, "I'm going to marry him."

Drawing influence from the street musicians of Miyagi, four high school students form a band and spend their free time practicing for their school's upcoming festival. When the festival is abruptly concealed, they come up with a dimwitted strategy of faking a bomb threat to the school in order to force the principal to change his mind. Their plan seems to work at first, but when a real bomb goes off, the group is forced to take responsibility for the explosion and they are kicked out of school. Three years later, more details of the incident is revealed as the youth look back on the past.

En una casita oculta bajo las tablas del suelo de una mansión campestre, vive una familia de seres diminutos, de apenas 10 cm. de altura, que tienen la norma de no dejarse ver nunca por los seres humanos; sin embargo, su tranquila existencia cambia cuando Arrietty, una audaz adolescente, es vista accidentalmente por un niño que se acaba de establecer en la casa debido a su delicada salud. Al tiempo que entre ambos surge una gran amistad, la existencia de los diminutos seres se verá peligrosamente amenazada... Adaptación del cuento infantil "The Borrowers", escrito por Mary Norton y ambientado en el Tokio contemporáneo.

"My Darling is a Foreigner" cuenta las aventuras y desventuras de la autora Saori una mangaka japonesa novia de un extranjero llamado Tony Laszlo, quien es un periodista estadounidense de padre húngaro y madre italiana. Ambos lucharan por la aprobación del padre de Saori durante toda la trama.

El año 1575 en el Japón feudal, las fuerzas de Oda Nobunaga derrotan a Takeda Katsuyori, cuando el Castillo de Nagashino fue asediado durante la Batalla de Nagashino. Al año siguiente, Oda Nobunaga decide construir un lujoso castillo que simbolice la unificación de varias facciones. El castillo llamado Azuchi Castle se construirá cerca del agua y lo suficientemente alto como para ser visto desde la capital Kyoto.

Hanako is a mother, who was not enthusiastic when her husband took in two foster children some years ago. He died not long afterward, leaving her alone to care for the youngsters, Koya and Torataro, a task that she rose to with a passion. As the two boys graduate from high school, Hanako has become not only a devoted parent but the neighborhood's most reliable mother in the Osaka style: strong, responsible, irreverent. After the two boys leave school they also leave home, though Torataro continues to work in the family factory. Koya secures employment at a restaurant, where he is forced to put up with the bullying of an older colleague. Unable to take it any more, he runs away, and Hanako and Torataro look for him. They eventually find him pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician.

Escrita y dirigida por Kaneto Shindo con 95 años de edad. Shindo basa la película en su propia maestra de escuela primaria. Está ambientada en la década de 1920 en la Escuela Primaria Ishiuchi Jinjo en las montañas de la prefectura de Hokkaido. Akira Emoto actua como un profesor entusiasta llamado Sr. Ichikawa que siempre tiene tiempo para sus estudiantes...

A humorous wedding story fueled by a rather no-good father and son, disguised as the old and new “good guys.” The father Nobuo, and his son Tamio, are unable to mature, unable to break the parent-child roles, have no sense of responsibility, and keep holding on to the past. The pair is overwhelmed by all the colorful characters around them telling them what to do. They go to strenuous and humorous efforts to make Tamio’s wedding an event to remember.

28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protected room located in an isolated ward of a psychiatric hospital. Sakura first became unconscious because of heavy alcohol use and a druge overdose. She’s confined in the single room because of her high risk of committing suicide. Sakura tried to talk to the nurses and doctors but they didn’t listen to her. Under the circumstances another patient Miki, who suffers from an eating disorder, leads her to understand the unknown world. But, Sakura is looking for the way to get back to the real world as soon as possible.

A vast wheat field, a straight road that has no end, a sky without a single building in sight – this is a town in the country where time comfortably passes by. But this former paradise is now being stirred up by a fight amongst its people over constructing an airport. This is a tale of three young people exploring youth and friendship as they reach out into the sky.

Coming of age story about a boy and his mother.

Kitahara Kazunori was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma in the fall of his second year in high school, and thereafter spent a year and 10 months battling the disease. Although he studied hard for the university examinations and was successfully admitted to his first choice, [the prestigious] Tokyo University, he only managed to visit it for a day before passing away. After that, last January [i.e. 2005], Kazunori's mother compiled the thoughts he had left behind and published it as a book, and it was adapted into this drama. Even as Kazunori had to fight his serious illness, he received support from his friends, school teachers and family members, and had warm relations with many people. This drama illustrates the 1 year and 10 months young Kazunori persevered together with the people around him.

Live-action adaptation of a madcap manga about art, opposites, love and a whole lot of cosplay.

The four Takezawa sisters discover that their father has an illegitimate child so they hire a private detective to investigate.

Una madre y su hija están atrapadas en un pueblo fantasma y se mueren de hambre. Se les ocurre un plan para salir de su situación que implica la explotación de los pocos hombres que se pierden en su cabaña... Ellas ofrecen servicios sexuales con finales no tan felices...

Sugihara es un joven coreano residente en Japón que, a pesar de ser inmigrante de segunda generación, trata de integrarse en un mundo que le discrimina racialmente.

A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young girl who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorrow is my birthday" everyday. He tries to communicate with her through his video camera.

A meek agent at the Showa Life Insurance company receives a phone call from a customer who says that she's planning to commit suicide and wants to know if her policy will pay out. Concerned about her safety, the agent visits her house only to find that her young son has hanged himself. As he investigates further, more and more people connected with this family start having "accidents," and if he's not careful, he might be next.

Koji, a jazz musician, takes a cigarette break in between sets at a Tokyo nightclub. He witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Linda, who is being pursued by the killers. For the next two hours, Koji and Linda are running from both the hitmen and the police. Mistakenly identified as prime suspects, they have to solve the crime but time is running out: Koji has to be back to perform in his club by midnight, as a very special guest will be attending.

This is the second in a series of documentaries following the lives of Japanese citizens based off Michael Apted’s Up series.

A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a hotel, but he is emotionally unable to part with his career as a railroader. His life takes a turn when he meets a young woman with an interest in trains who resembles his daughter.

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 who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins attending a technical college to gain new qualifications. She meets others looking for a new start in life, including a former salaryman with whom she begins a furtive romance...

Cuando una pareja llega a su casa, Toyama y su mujer, Yoko, se encuentran que ha sido invadida por Gosekai, un teniente del jefe yakuza Aihara, y sus hombres, Toyana sólo puede mirar como los yakuza violan a su mujer, sin que pueda hacer nada al respecto. Incapaz de vivir con ello, Yoko se acaba ahorcando. Toyama se hace una espada y va en busca de Aihara y sus hombres, pero no sabe muy bien por donde empezar. Un robo en una joyería le dará las primeras pistas para encontrar a los culpables y conocerá a cinco mujeres que le ayudarán a encontrarlos.

A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her palentologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs.

Based on a novel by Bo Nishimura, the film is about an extramarital affair between the wife of an estate agent and a 22 year old man.

This is the first in a series of documentaries following the lives of Japanese citizens based off Michael Apted's Up series.

When a team of detectives lose the trail of a murderer, they decide to keep an eye on the suspect’s ex-lover, who is trapped in an abusive marriage.

A suspense drama based on Osamu Takahashi's original work starring Shinobu Otake. The shooting location of Gunkanjima is a famous tourist attraction. When Mansako returns to her husband's parents' house, she noticed a young man named Shinji playing drums at a village festival. Shinji who felt her gaze also looked back at Mansako. Masako invites Shinji to her house to welcome her husband together, and is witnessed by a housewife who came to inform her husband of the accidental death while helping him change clothes. She is stigmatized for infidelity. They are separated, but they vow to meet again 12 years later.

A yakuza boss's daughter starts a pirate TV broadcast.

Shohei Taguchi is a salaryman who works for a securities company and loves women like no other. One day, he plans to use the cash borrowed from the gangsters and snatch to repay his debt . However, Sayoko Mukai, who said that she used the money of the company for gambling , took over the money. Shohei and Sayoko plan a robbery and steal cash from the gallery, but another man steals it.

An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. They start dating but then strange things then begin to happen to him, including a beating from the local yakuza. - Wikipedia

A 30-year-old man's life gets up-ended when his girlfriend accepts an arranged marriage meeting with a more successful man.

Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a dangerous match with the husband of her frigid cousin.

Cuenta lo que le puede pasar a una familia japonesa, cuando uno de sus hijos les avergüenza delante de toda la nación.

A mahjong neophyte loses everything to game master only to hone his skills, take on all challenges and plan for an ultimate revenge match.

Ken Ota is a Japanese-American GI. He comes to Hiroshima after WW2 looking for his big sister, but finds Keiko, a bomb victim with a keloid scar on her shoulder.

August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family.

The biography of Mifune Chizuko a woman clairvoyant.

A couple originally from Okinawa run an inexpensive restaurant in Kobe, with their grade-school daughter, Fuuchan. The movie depicts the warm interaction between her and adults that grew up with the rough history of Okinawa and discrimination from the mainland. Shots partly on location at beach of Itoman, Yogi Park and Hateruma Island. This is the movie version of the well-known novel by Kenjiro Haitani.

A la Reina le ha entrado el deseo de tener un ramo de flores, sin embargo, es invierno, por lo que no hay flores bonitas ahora mismo en el bosque. Por eso ofrece una gran recompensa a quien le traiga dicho ramo. Dos hermanastras egoístas envían a una muchacha de buen corazón a los nevados bosques para buscar las flores a la Reina...

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.

The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without rest, and endured those conditions and sexual harassment to earn money for their poor families. Across the ocean, it was the great depression in America.

La antigua amante de un hombre se presenta un día en casa de éste y de su actual mujer, con sus tres hijos y desaparece, abandonando así a los tres niños. Para ella, es una venganza y una forma de darle una lección a este hombre que considera irresponsable. Esta situación inesperada no le gusta nada a la esposa legítima, que empieza a sentir un odio incontrolable hacia los niños y piensa hacerlos desaparecer del todo...

The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old shipyard worker, is arrested and charged with the murder. At Ueda's trial, a complex story unfolds.

Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt. Tora attempts to match Watt with a young waitress.

Romance film

Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.

Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of the life of the characters. Shinsuke's father dies while bravely using dynamite to rescue a group of trapped Korean miners. Several older men attempt to help he and his mother cope, including a kind Korean and a Harley-riding yakuza.