Masao Imafuku

In the early morning of January 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck, and Tadao Furuichi (Hidekazu Akai), who was running a camera store in Kobe City, lost his friends, his house, and his property. Tadao is busy volunteering for the reconstruction of the town, and one day he comes across his own golf bag that survived the earthquake. Feeling a miracle, Tadao decides to challenge the professional golf test before he turns 60.

When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.

Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighbors care for him as new events occur every day.

As famous photographer, Yuta Suzumori's (Tatsuya Fuji) health is worsening he tells a childhood story of when he saw a kappa in his hometown village of Kitagawa.

From all over Japan, the greatest warriors: Yagyu Jubei, Miyamoto Musashi, Araki Mataemon, and more came to test their blades in a tournament of swords. But behind the match a bloodthirsty plot is born. Tokugawa Yorinobu, a corrupt shogunate official plans to assassinate Shogun Iemitsu and take his place. With scheming samurai Yui Shosetsu and ruthless Negoro ninja leader Genyusai, he plans to incite a ronin uprising and cut a bloody trail across Japan, with terrifying Chinese gunboats to back his play. Matsudaira Izu-no-kami, councilor and friend to the shogun, along with master swordsman Yagyu Jubei and ninja master Hanzo Hattori must stop Yui Shosetsu and his army of ronin and ninja assassins from tearing the country in half and taking over the government!

Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.

Furuchi and Hama are two unsuccessful repair agents and electronic engineers. One day Furichi finds a so-called Kotatsu heater. Soon after this Furichi dies in a traffic accident. But with the help of a stun gun succeed Hama Furichi bring back to life, but also Kotatsu heater comes alive then.

En el siglo XVI, todas las artes florecían en Japón, como también las guerras y las intrigas por el poder entre los distintos señores feudales. Rikyu, un sereno y prudente maestro del té, tratará de templar la mayor ambición de su poderoso señor: crear un gran imperio japonés en el Pacífico, unificando Japón e invadiendo China. El uso de las invitaciones oficiales para las ceremonias del té le servirán a Rikyu para llevar a cabo sus delicadas negociaciones diplomáticas.

La hermosa y joven Kinu Yamabe se siente atraída por el humilde Onimaru, que es vital y carismático, pero su padre lo ve como un demonio y la mayoría de la familia restante lo ve como una mancha en el apellido. Pero después de su primer período, Kinu sufre el destino de cualquier mujer nacida cerca de la Montaña Sagrada: debe abandonar la Montaña y servir como sacerdotisa. Pero tiene un plan para quedarse cerca de su antiguo hogar, lo que implica casarse con una rama rival de su familia.

Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out a niche in the market with their musical talents.

The ronin, Sako Kanbei has to rescue the beautiful Princess Tsubaki from danger while young samurai of the Numata Clan stand up against their corrupt Chief Retainer and evil clan mistress. Kanbei wants to develop his swordsmanship only for himself, he finds that he has been implicated in a crime and must fight for justice in the ultimate battle to redeem his innocence. The swordplay in this film is reminiscent of the Lone Wolf and Cub series with its brutal and extended action sequences and awesome finale. A powerful motion picture about honor, love and cold steel!

Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) who has a crescent-moon-shaped scar on his forehead with flashy clothes and a handsome face, and is proficient in all the military arts and called Bored Hatamoto. Mikijiro Hira acts as such a hero in history. Mondonosuke is secretly ordered to look into the suspicious movement in Nagoya castle by the Ometsuke, and he found out about the misconduct and sole it. This is a period movie about the hero!

A young man gets thrown into detention after an episode of sexual assault; he soon meets several impostors in the same situation.

A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.

Retomando su papel de la popular serie de televisión "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro protagoniza esta película independiente de larga duración hecha para televisión. El ronin errante recuerda su papel más famoso como el samurái sin nombre en "Yojimbo" y "Sanjuro" de Kurosawa. Viaja por Japón y, si bien puede buscar la felicidad, la violencia y la tragedia siempre se cruzan en su camino. Esta vez, acepta a regañadientes cuando una chica lo contrata para matar a un funcionario local que ha gravado injustamente a sus aldeanos. Pero pronto descubre que no todo es lo que parece cuando encuentra un vínculo directo con su pasado.

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.

A man working in a fish market is crazy about festivals.

This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a musical. They would have to pay the overhead and, being that they are farmers and always busy and not rich, question the wisdom and feasibility of such an idea. A spokesperson for the acting troupe Ms. Kono lays out the whole thing and they must decide. You get little slices of rural life in Japan far, at least in sentiment, from Tokyo. The best thing about this film is that it has heart. The acting is good, but it is really about the simple storyline of outing on a show. Films rarely get made with such simplistic plots these days. Enjoy this little slice of what city people call “the simple life”.

A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to the Abashiri Bangaichi series, written and directed by Ishii Teruo. The friendship between two men on death row, a fleeting love affair with a traveling dancer and a deadly battle with the real culprit who has hunted him down filmed over a long period of time on location in Hokkaido.

During the military phase of the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Sentaro joins a local militia loyal to the Tokugawa Shogunate in order to fight Imperial troops. But Sentaro's friendship with a pickpocket, who switches sides whenever it suits his needs, leads to complications that could cost Sentaro his life as they infiltrate enemy lines.

Una profecía ancestral de Okinawa predice que un monstruo aparecerá a destruir el mundo pero será detenido por dos criaturas colosales. El hallazgo de una estatua en las cavernas de Okinawa indican que se trata de la llave para llamar a King Caesar, el guardián de la zona, y el único que puede detener la oleada de destrucción provocada por el recientemente aparecido Godzilla. Las señales de la profecía parecen cumplirse, pero un grupo de científicos comienza a descubrir pistas que indican que nada es lo que parece. Y ello se confirma cuando el verdadero Godzilla aparece en escena, desintegrando el camuflaje de la criatura que destruye las ciudades, y revelando ser un sosías robótico. Es MechaGodzilla, un ser cibernético construido por la raza alienígena del tercer planeta del Agujero Negro, que ha llegado a la Tierra con pretensiones de invadirla.

A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.

Recreación desde el punto de vista japonés de la batalla de Okinawa, una de las más sangrientas de la campaña del Pacífico.

Un samurai ronin solo vive para poder consumar su sed de venganza contra aquellos que le despojaron de cuanto le rodeaba. Un estudio acerca de cómo la manipulación y los sentimientos interesados pueden llevar a un hombre a perder todo ideal. Un inusual chambara, cercano al cine experimental, firmado por uno de los nombres claves de la Nueva Ola Japonesa.

Second part to "River Without a Bridge" (1969)

Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure out the true identity of Sharaku, who disappeared after about 150 portraits of actors he created came out.

Mientras Japón cierra un pacto político con la Alemania nazi y la Italia fascista, el almirante Isoroku Yamamoto es nombrado comandante supremo de la flota japonesa. Con Japón abocado inexorablemente a la guerra, Yamamoto, a pesar de sus dudas, cree que la única posibilidad de victoria reside en destruir la flota americana por sorpresa en Pearl Harbor. El ataque es un éxito, pero no consiguen destruir la flota de portaviones americanos. Por eso Yamamoto se ve obligado a llevar a la flota japonesa al combate, con muy pocas esperanzas de victoria...

A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.

Después de la detonación de las bombas atómicas de Hiroshima y Nagasaki, el ejército japonés y el gobierno se enfrentan por la demanda de los aliados de la rendición incondicional. El Ministro de Defensa Anami defiende el continuar luchando, hasta la muerte del último japonés si hace falta. El Emperador Hirohito se reune con sus ministros para solicitar la impensable rendición pacífica del Japón. Cuando el ejército planea un golpe para derrocar al gobierno civil del Emperador, Anani debe decidir entre sus deseos o su lealtad al Emperador.