Yoko, who gets a job at a nursing home, witnesses the elderly and disabled people there having their human dignity threatened.
A road movie about Yoko, a frustrated part-time worker who hitchhikes to her hometown of Hirosaki, Aomori, where she has not returned for 24 years, after hearing the news of her father's death.
Shigure makes a living as a transporter with his young buddy, Haruki. One day, Haruki disappears with the counterfeit bills they bring. Shigure makes every effort to find them, trying to assume ignorance of his BOSS. As all his efforts are getting in vain, he gets a call. It is from Haruki and he says “these bills are genuine.”
Ryo 'Blues' Aoshima
A large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief, the giant corpse left behind begins to slowly rot and bloat. If it explodes, the nation will be destroyed.
Furuya Saburo
An actress working undercover for the Allies in 1941 Shanghai discovers the Japanese plan to attack Pearl Harbor.
Toru Aoki
Aoki is a failing novelist, and Sol is a failing pop singer. Encountering each other in South Korea, speaking different languages, they and their families somehow end up in a truck heading off into the Korean countryside.
A human drama about the strange fate of the three brothers, played by Masatoshi Nagase, Joe Odagiri, and Nobuaki Kaneko, set in Nagoya.
Yoichi Tanaka
7 years ago, Yoichi died in a traffic accident. His wife Ryoko did not receive compensation from her husband's death. She has since raised her son Junpei by herself. Junpei is now a middle school student. Ryoko also cares for her father-in-law, who lives in a nursing home and she also runs a cafe. Her care is in a difficult situation due to Covid-19, while Junpei experiences bullying at school.
Kohei Kaji
Dos personas se conocen después de perder el último tren a casa, lo que lleva a una hermosa relación de cinco años.
Saki's father is an alcoholic and her mother is a follower of a new religion. She sees her father's strange behavior and her mother's loneliness. Her family is collapsing, but Saki struggles to look for her future.
Editor
Toichi es un barquero que transporta a los aldeanos a un pueblo al otro lado del río. Además de pilotar un bote para los aldeanos durante todo el día, apenas tiene comunicación con los demás, excepto con Genzo, un joven vecino. Aguas arriba, se está construyendo un gran puente. Todo el mundo está emocionado, pero Toichi tiene sentimientos encontrados al respecto. Un día, Toichi conoce a una misteriosa joven. Como no tiene familia ni lugar a donde ir, Toichi le deja quedarse con él, pero este encuentro comienza a traer cambios en la vida de Toichi.
Screenplay
Toichi es un barquero que transporta a los aldeanos a un pueblo al otro lado del río. Además de pilotar un bote para los aldeanos durante todo el día, apenas tiene comunicación con los demás, excepto con Genzo, un joven vecino. Aguas arriba, se está construyendo un gran puente. Todo el mundo está emocionado, pero Toichi tiene sentimientos encontrados al respecto. Un día, Toichi conoce a una misteriosa joven. Como no tiene familia ni lugar a donde ir, Toichi le deja quedarse con él, pero este encuentro comienza a traer cambios en la vida de Toichi.
Director
Toichi es un barquero que transporta a los aldeanos a un pueblo al otro lado del río. Además de pilotar un bote para los aldeanos durante todo el día, apenas tiene comunicación con los demás, excepto con Genzo, un joven vecino. Aguas arriba, se está construyendo un gran puente. Todo el mundo está emocionado, pero Toichi tiene sentimientos encontrados al respecto. Un día, Toichi conoce a una misteriosa joven. Como no tiene familia ni lugar a donde ir, Toichi le deja quedarse con él, pero este encuentro comienza a traer cambios en la vida de Toichi.
Invisible Man (voice)
Película omnibus compuesta por tres cortometrajes bajo el lema "la historia de varios héroes modestos de nuestro tiempo". Los cortos están dirigidos en su totalidad por ex-trabajadores de Studio Ghibli, bajo el nuevo Studio Ponoc. Son los siguientes: - Kanini & Kanino (de Hiromasa Yonebayashi) - Life Ain't Gonna Lose (de Yoshiyuki Momose) - Invisible (de Akihiko Yamashita)
Goro Ikazuzi
Yakumo Miko's father died when she was 5 years old. The next year, Miko mother went missing. Miko then moved in with her grandmother, but, at the age of 18, Miko's grandmother passes away. She shuts herself away from others. One day, her uncle from her mother's side, Ikazuzi Goro appears. He sets up a place for Miko to live and also a place for her to do part-time work. Her part-time job is "room laundering." After starting her job, Miko sees ghosts. She struggles to solve the worries of the ghosts who are staying in rooms. Ikazuzi Goro tells Miko that her mother was able to see ghosts which affected her. Miko asks him to find her mother.
Eve's Boyfriend
La película examina la raíz de los seres humanos, indagando en las profundidades de las emociones humanas y los límites de la moralidad y la ética.
Sakamoto
A noir fairytale revolving around three outsiders: a mysterious artist on the run from the real world, a street kid who dreams of getting rich and a girl who is allergic to the sun.
Hagio
Tsuchida works at a host club in secret to support her live-in boyfriend Seiichi, in order to fulfill his dream of becoming a musician. Seiichi is unemployed and falls into a slump, unable to write any songs. However, when Seiichi learns that Tsuchida became a mistress of a customer at the host club and that it was how she is earning their living expenses, he changes his mind and decides to find a job. Meanwhile,Tsuchida had an accidental reunion with Hagio, an old lover who she has been unable to forget.
Freddy Maemura Hurtado
La primera película en 40 años coproducida por Japón y Cuba. Narra la historia de Freddy Maymura Hurtado, un hombre boliviano de origen japonés. Se unió a los luchadores por la libertad, liderados por el Che Guevara en 1966, y fue martirizado a la edad de 25. Ernesto significa "serio", pero también era el nombre de pila del Che Guevara.
Kogure
The Master’s late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle delivery man struggling with love.
Kazuhiro Kono
A strict, but caring mother has an awakening when she is told she has cancer and it is terminal. She has a few months. She needs to complete her tasks in that short time frame.
Yoshio Shiraiwa
A recently divorced and traumatized man moves to Hakodate, Hokkaido and attends a vocational college to learn carpentry along with several other students who are in the same boat as he. When a couple of the guys go to a hostess club the man meets an unconventional girl who likes him and a relationship is born.
Foujita
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.
Tokunoshin Mori
In the year 1868, three young men join the elite Shogitai division of the Shogunate. The Shogitai fights to the end and opposes the dismantling of the feudal military dictatorship known as the Bakufu system.
Keigo Masaki
The NPS (National Police Safety Rescue), whose purpose is to catch extreme criminals alive, becomes the center of attention. A sit-in demonstration takes place. Members of the NPS, including Ichigo Kamikura (Osamu Mukai) go to the protest site. Meanwhile, a transport ship is hijacked in the Pacific Ocean.
Kogure
A restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a series of flawed patrons including Tamako, whose boyfriend has passed away, live-in worker Michiru, and ruckus-raising Kenzo.
Detective Aikawa
Cuando Kanako, hija pródiga y alumna intachable, desaparece, su madre no duda en llamar a su exmarido, un policía poco ortodoxo. A medida que la investigación avanza, la imagen idealizada de Kanako se va resquebrajando, dejando entrever que, bajo la excelencia, la chica esconde otra vida, más oscura y secreta.
An airplane lands due to bad weather. A family, who rode on that airplane, goes through various troubles and it gets worse.
Eiji Kugenuma
A professional scammer is hired by a wealthy young businessman to find a hidden treasure looted from the Bank of Japan and supposedly stashed away by a group of men after WWII in various locations around the globe. Eventually an assassin is put on their trail.
Shigeru Kajiwara (Joe Odagiri) works part-time at a company that sells mysterious health food. One day, the other employees run off with the company's money.
Owner of Baseball Team Junichi Ito
Tras la muerte de su abuelo, una chica y su gorila se unen al equipo profesional de béisbol de Corea.
Sawano
Koichi y Atsumi se aman y se conocen desde niños. Atsumi está en coma tras una tentativa de suicidio. Con la intención de sacarla de esa situación, Koichi consigue conectar con el subconsciente de Atsumi a través del “sensing”, una nueva y extraña tecnología.
Masashi Nishioka
Majime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that will compile a new dictionary, ‘The Great Passage.’ In the eclectic team, he becomes immersed in the world of dictionaries. But the team is overwhelmed with problems. Will ‘The Great Passage’ ever be completed?
Tatsuo Hasegawa
Jun-shik, que trabaja para la granja del abuelo de Tatsuo mientras Corea es colonizada por Japón, sueña con participar en los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio como corredor de maratón. Tatsuo también aspira a convertirse en corredor de maratón, por lo que los dos se convertirán en rivales. Pero la guerra estalla y ambos se ven obligados a alistarse en el ejército. Tatsuo se convierte en el jefe de defensa de la unidad de Jun-shik y elabora un plan, pero falla. Jun-shik y Tatsuo están cautivos de los soviéticos. Huyen, pero pronto son capturados por los alemanes y obligados a separarse. En 1944, se reencuentran en las costas de Normandía. Esta película está inspirada en la historia real de un coreano llamado Yang Kyoungjong.
North Korean solider 1
Todo comienza como si se tratara de un relato de espías. Un hombre se dedica a cruzar la frontera entre las dos Coreas, llevando consigo cualquier cosa que le pidan transportar. Todo comienza a oler a melodrama cuando uno de los encargos es que lleve a una mujer, la novia de un alto cargo norcoreano. A camino entre Seúl y Piongyan, la película se sitúa también entre las persecución de los espías norcoreanos y el drama propio de aquellos que están huyendo.
Kenji Kinami
Los protagonistas son el dúo cómico infantil Maeda Maeda. Dos niños, hijos de una pareja divorciada. viven separados: uno con su madre en Fukuoka, y el otro con el padre en Kagoshima. Los dos sueñan conb la reconciliación de sus padres. Cuando conocen la noticia de la inauguración de una línea de tren que uniría ambas ciudades, se aferran a un rumor, según el cual cuando los primeros trenes se crucen, ocurrirá un milagro.
Junpei Ishikawa
"A School Behind Bars" centers around Asahi Junior High School, which is located within Nagano Matsumoto Boy's prison in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture - the only public school in Japan that is located inside a prison. The school's students are all prisoners ranging in age from 20-70. The students are carefully selected after taking an entrance exam and being selected by the school's admission board.
Lu Shenkang
Set during China's the Warring States Period (476-221 BC), benevolent warrior Chenkang Lu (Joe Odagiri) enters into a torrid love affair with a woman (Maggie Q) from the nomadic Harran tribe. Their relationship sends the warrior to a place where humans were once wolves...
Sonoda
Una muñeca hinchable de tamaño natural vive en un modesto piso de Tokio. Es la única compañía de su solitario amo, un hombre de mediana edad. Él le habla, la baña y le hace el amor cada día cuando vuelve del trabajo. Sin embargo, esta rutina se rompe cuando, de repente, la Muñeca Hinchable cobra vida y con ella un alma. Acaba de nacer y no entiende lo que ocurre a su alrededor, aunque se da cuenta de que existe otro mundo más allá de las paredes del piso. Cuando, por fin, se atreve a salir al mundo exterior, se siente fascinada por todo lo que ve. Conoce a mucha gente, pero nadie es capaz de explicarle qué significa "estar viva". Un día, entra en un videoclub y conoce a Junichi, el vendedor, del que se enamora inmediatamente...
Kirin
Yuda, a Chinese immigrant, and his adopted son Kirin, who he saved being eaten by a tiger in the jungle, stand at the head of a massive pirated goods operation that brings in both money and influence. But their empire is crumbling, as corrupt politicians and rival gangs seek to end their power in the city. Yuda is soon got arrested and his dedicated son tries his best to save not just the family business, but his father's reputation.
Three strangers gather in search of an elusive cherry blossom. The tree hardly matters after a while, though, as they stumble into one funny and revealing episode after another.
Director
Three strangers gather in search of an elusive cherry blossom. The tree hardly matters after a while, though, as they stumble into one funny and revealing episode after another.
Jin
Jin es un artista que despierta de una pesadilla en la que ha provocado un accidente de tráfico. Pronto se dará cuenta de que todo lo que ha soñado ha tenido lugar en la vida real. El accidente si ha ocurrido, y la policía acusa a una mujer llamada Ran de ser la respondable. Al intentar explicarse lo sucedido, Jin y Ran comprenderán la extraña conexión que existe entre ellos: cuando Jin duerme, Ran vive inconscientemente lo que él sueña. Este descubrimiento vinculará las vidas de ambos de forma irreversible.
Tamio Kanzaki
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.
Fumiya Takemura
A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.
Ginko
Katsuhiro Ôtomo, famoso por sus filmes de animación (en especial "Akira"), dirige ahora una película de ciencia ficción, basada en un manga de Yuki Urushibara, que trata sobre Ginko, un joven maestro sanador que usa una extrañas forma de vida en sus curaciones. Los "mushi" son una suerte de espíritus parasitarios que flotan por todas partes sin ser vistos, y que afectan a los humanos de muy diversas maneras. Son algo así como "El fantasmal espíritu de la naturaleza que respira dentro de todo ser vivo... y muerto". Ginko, que puede verlos, se ha convertido en "mushishi", un experto en tales criaturas que ejerce como sanador.
Goto
Kenji, abandonado por su madre, vive entregado a una pobre existencia realizando insignificantes trabajos, como hacer de taxista para bailarinas de bares y sus clientes. Al mismo tiempo, cuida de la hermana de un antiguo amigo que está en la cárcel y de un inmigrante ilegal. Pero su vida da un giro cuando se encuentra con Chiyoko, su madre.
Masaya Nakagawa
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn between the inherited recklessness of his father Oton and the inherited responsibility, wisdom and emotional strength of his mother Okan. Following a period of intensely rebellious behavior, Boku learns that his mom has contracted cancer; suddenly, his mother comes to live with him in Tokyo the entire emotional landscape of his life is altered.
Houichi Tobishima
Four beautiful sisters are entrusted with taking care of Kinjiro, a giant salamander and national treasure. Rumors spread that Kinjiro is an impostor, so a genius x-ray technician is sent to run some tests.
Dr. Takagi
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)
Takeru Hayakawa
A psychologically thrilling portrait of the severe dysfunction behind a family clinging to decorum and pride.
Teppei
Soon after he lands in America, Ali, a Muslim man from Pakistan, begins his search for his estranged wife, Nadia. On his journey, Ali meets with Teppei, a Japanese traveller hitchhiking his way across America, and Sarah, a local trailer park girl, who help him in his search. The three travellers succeed in finding Nadia, who, to Ali’s dismay, is living a new life in Phoenix with another man. Ali spends the rest of his stay in America with Teppei and Sarah, anxiously wondering where his life is leading. In the brief time they are together, the three companions commit to helping one another. Ali, Teppei and Sarah begin a new journey, to find their own individual identities and in the process they find each other. Big River is a road movie, a tale about the borderless realm of friendship and its ability to transcend culture.
Ukon
New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment and a special dinner planned and yet there is trouble everywhere. An Animal is on the loose, a politician to protect, a prostitute to handle, a bellhop to focus and a few things more.
Shin
Shin is a Japanese university student living a boring and meaningless life. One day, he spots a book titled Dangerous Ways to Walk the World, in which he finds a page written about hazards in New-York. Eager to get out, he jets off to New-York to find this inspiration.
Tetsu Katsurai
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.
Kouga Gen-no-suke
En Japón, Kouga e Iga eran clanes ninja enfrentados durante más de 400 años. Transcurría la era Keichou, 1614, cuando Ieyasu, que entonces tenía 73 años, decidió que ya era hora de elegir a su sucesor. Ieyasu dudaba entre sus nietos: Yakechiyo, que era mayor pero estúpido, y Kunichiyo, más joven pero inteligente. Para solucionar este dilema, Ieyasu decidió enfrentar a los clanes de Kouga e Iga en una lucha. En caso de que Kouga resultara vencedor, Kunichiyo sería el nuevo Shogun. En el caso contrario, el Shogun sería Takechiyo. Los dos clanes enfrentados habían gozado de varios años de paz desde que Hattori Hanzou les obligase a llegar a una tregua. Años en los que Gennosuke, de Kouga, y Oboro, de Iga se enamoraron. Ahora, la batalla entre Kouga e Iga esá a punto de empezar, y los veinte ninjas designados irán cayendo uno tras otro.
Haruhiko
Saori es una joven de 24 años que lleva una vida no demasiado excitante. Endeudada hasta el cuello tras haber pagado el tratamiento médico de su madre, fallecida hace tres años, Saori trata de llegar a fin de mes trabajando de oficinista en una compañía de pinturas y de dependienta en una tienda 24 horas. Cuando ya casi está decidida a probar suerte en un club de alterne para sacar más dinero, un día de lluvia, Saori recibe la visita de un joven apuesto de nombre Haruhiko.
Suzume's Husband
Suzume Katagura, a bored housewife, spends her days doing chores and taking care of her husband's pet turtle. One day, she sees a wanted ad for spies. Hoping for some excitement in her life, she decides to give them a call.
Yuji
Low-profile theater troop actor Mutsugoro Suzuki begins an oneiric journey back to his hometown, marked by his quest to find the one responsible of infecting him with a STD.
Amechiyo
Amechiyo (the banished prince) falls in love with Tanukihime (a princess of raccoon dog disguised as human). This is an operetta which includes comedy, singing and dancing, and a love story.
Tetsuya Taguchi
A free-spirited psychiatrist exudes a magnetic attraction for patients with out-of-the-ordinary neuroses and odd conditions brought about by stress.
himself
The Making of Hazard
Sakazaki
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.
Takeshi Park
In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.
Joker Jono
Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre murder occurs in the hotel across the street. The body was mutilated and repositioned into a lurid work of art. After this, a string of murders start happening all around the two girls, as if some crazed serial killer was following them. At the scene of each crime, the perpetrator leaves a black lip print, and is subsequently dubbed "The Black Kiss.
(segment "Echoes")
This horror anthology is featuring nine independent episodes, each 30 minutes long, that are revolving around bad karma and terror.
Shozo Ikeshima
Five young musicians, each harboring painful memories, are assembled to entertain American soldiers at an Enlisted Men's Club. Tensions emerge between the tenor saxophonist, a disillusioned ex-soldier, and a bitter GI whose brother was killed in the war. And when the band plays the prohibited "Danny Boy" during a birthday bash for a sergeant whose son Danny had died a year ago, everyone must confront a past they'd rather forget.
Bijomaru Mogami
Azumi, joven huérfana, es acogida por un anciano guerrero del Japón feudal, maestro de artes marciales, que la entrenará junto a otros nueve jóvenes en el dominio de las mejores técnicas del combate de sable. Tras muchos años de perfeccionamiento, los diez compañeros, convertidos en guerreros asesinos, tendrán que enfrentarse a la prueba definitiva: derrotar a un ejército de despiadados tiranos feudales. Premios:
Himself
Initially, Ambivalent Future was intended as a film about the production of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Bright Future". But director Fujii has taken the "behind the scenes"-concept to unprecedented heights with this unique documentary offering a close look into the world of Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the auteur. Scenes from the surprisingly low key and relaxed production of "Bright Future" are of course sprinkled liberally throughout the documentary, but between these we are treated to interesting and revealing interviews with actors, producers and Kurosawa's many other collaborators. And perhaps the most surprising thing of all is how much of Kurosawa there is, talking candidly about his working methods and the philosophy behind it all.
Yûji Nimura
Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They become fascinated with a deadly jellyfish.
Japanese film directed by Jinsei Tsuji
Yusuke Godai / Kamen Rider Kuuga
A group of archaeologists open a tomb that awakens horrible monsters, while journeyman Yusuke Godai is compelled to access a strange belt from the tomb to fight back against them. Also, a drunkard witnesses a murder by an unidentified lifeform near a church. Meanwhile, Yusuke is bothered by the idea of fighting and is unsure if it was right until he saw the daughter of one of the slain archeologists crying, making his reason to fight "to protect the smiles of people". This is the director's cut version of the first two episodes of the Kamen Rider Kuuga TV series.
Toshimi Iwasaki
A pesar de lo que el título pueda sugerir y a riesgo de decepcionar a algunos, Platonic Sex no es una película de sexo. Es la historia de la joven Aoi Iijima (que interpreta la actriz Saki Kagami), que a sus diecisiete años siente que su vida no tiene sentido y quiere suicidarse. La salva un mensaje que llega a su móvil: un mensaje de alguien llamado Toshi que la felicita por su cumpleaños y le agradece el haber nacido.
Yusuke Godai
Kamen Rider Kuuga final TV special. Jokingly labelled as the "50th episode" of the series.
Yusuke Godai / Kamen Rider Kuuga
On January 2nd, Yusuke Godai prepares the Pole Pole cafe for opening, reflecting on the events of the prior year's battles he's had as Kamen Rider Kuuga against the Grongi. This special serves as a clip show and is also referred to as episode 46.5
Yusuke Godai / Kamen Rider Kuuga
Yusuke Godai awakens from a nap at the Pore Pore Tea Cafe and finds a scrapbook with newspaper clippings about his battles as Kuuga. As he reminisces about each fight, gaining each of his forms and the Gouram attachment for the TryChaser, Godai gets a call about a new Gurongi. Godai heads over and transforms into Kuuga to face off against the beast who introduces himself as Go-Jiino-Da!
Shin
A short film that merges footage from Hazard [2005] with music video aesthetics to create a strange visual experiment that challenges the medium of film and music video.
