Kanako Higuchi

Atsushi and Ryoko are a married coupled. They decide they want to live around nature and move to Biei in Hokkaido, Japan. Atsushi isn't sure what to do with his free time, so Ryoko asks him build a stone wall around their house. Atsushi experiences tragedy, but later gets closer to his estranged daughter, Satoko. Atsushi continues building the stone wall.

A family that was severely damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake that struck in March 2011, and a family that escaped the disaster. The film depicts the collapse and rebirth of two families whose children were supposed to marry each other. A moving drama written by Yamada Taichi and starring Nakai Kiichi, Kuroki Meisa and Kamiki Ryunosuke.

Based on a true story about about a man who was told for many years that he was not employable, but threw all of his effort into working as a door-to-door salesman. Despite the pain attributed to his cerebral palsy, he walked eight to ten miles a day to meet his customers and achieved the highest sales for his company.

La obsesión de un joven con el arte lo deja sin un centavo hasta que su esposa alejada lo ayuda.

Based on the short story from the best-selling collection "Poppoya" by Jiro Asada, "The Invitation from Cinema Orion" tells the story of a couple's undying love for the cinema and each other.

After being stricken with Alzheimer's disease in the prime of his life, a successful young businessman slips slowly away from his loving family.

Adapted from the successful play, the film takes place in 19th-century Japan, where a war between demons and their slayers is fought. Izumo, a kabuki actor with a demon-slaying past, meets and falls in love with Tsubaki. However, something is not right, as mysterious marks appear on her body as time progresses. At the same time, it is announced that Ashura, the queen of all demons, will be resurrected and bring destruction to the universe.

Sakutaro está a vísperas de su boda, pareciera que todo va bien, hasta que su novia Ritsuko decide desaparecer por un tiempo. Sakutaro está desesperado ya que además se avecina un gran tifón a la ciudad. Entre todas las noticias del tifón, Sakutaro ve a Ritsuko en la televisión, en una ciudad distante pero que le es bastante especial. Es entonces cuando él decide ir en su búsqueda, sin embargo, terminará desviándose de su objetivo para encontrarse cara a cara con un pasado que dejó inconcluso.

El futuro no pinta nada bien. Japón se ha impuesto a otras superpotencias pero su población se resiente: demasiada contaminación. En un mundo agonizante sobrecargado de individuos desesperanzados surge la esperanza: las neocélulas, un descubrimiento reciente del que podría depender la supervivencia de la raza humana. Como no todo puede ser tan fácil ni tan bonito, a raíz del estudio de las neocélulas, aparece una nueva raza humana: los neo-sapiens, quienes no terminarán de encajar entre los "humanos normales" y buscarán su destrucción ...pero surgirá un héroe dispuesto a interponerse entre los neo-sapiens y los humanos, alguien conocido como Casshern

One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and kill the killer ..... and it escalates!

Película que explora el dolor inexpresado de una familia que ha perdido a uno de sus hijos. En un caluroso día de verano, durante la celebración del festival anual de Jizo, dos hermanos gemelos echan una carrera para llegar a casa. Pero uno de ellos desaparece por el camino, como si se hubiera desvanecido...

As the film begins, Takao (Akira Terao) and Michiko (Kanako Higuchi) have already pulled up their Tokyo roots and moved to a village that is Takao's ancestral home. They visit a thatched cottage that serves as a memorial shrine (amidado) for the village dead and chat with the attendant, the spry 96-year-old Oume (Tanie Kitabayashi). Together they admire the view -- from an inspiring distance. Oume, it turns out, is a kind of sage, whose thoughts and observations are a popular feature in a column in a local newsletter. Her amanuensis is a mute, sweetly smiling young woman named Sayuri (Manami Konishi), who is as devoted to Oume as Oume is to the souls of her beloved dead.

The indolent son of an oil vendor becomes a regular customer of a prostitute, racks up a mountain of debt, and is disowned by his parents.

A young boy, Atsu, grows up along the banks of the Shimanto River in rural southern Shikoku. He comes to grips with the unfairness of life and the emotional pain involved in the loss of innocence. The film is based on an autobiographical novel written by Kyuzo Sasayama.

Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.

Un burdel en una zona rural es el punto de encuentro habitual de diversos ronin, samuráis sin amo que desahogan en la bebida y las chicas sus frustraciones. Alcohol y pasión no suelen combinar bien con espadas y gente desesperanzada, el conflicto está servido.

Última de las veintiséis películas basadas en el personaje de Zatoichi interpretado por Shintarô Katsu. La película comienza con Zatoichi encerrado entre rejas, no obstante le dejan pronto en libertad y decide ir a visitar a un viejo amigo.

Based on the comic book series by Tamiko Akaboshi.

Based on a polemic novel by Amy Yamada, Bedtime Eyes is about the intense love relationship between a second rate Japanese jazz singer and a black American GI on the margins of the law.

In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a night of eating and drinking. The old woman's health deteriorates and she dies. At her funeral, Tora-san falls in love with the old woman's daughter, but winds up acting as a go-between for her and a young law student.

Based on the novel of the same name by Yoshio Kataoka.

Deaths in Tokimeki tells the disturbing, compulsive story of a hit-man waiting to carry out a job: the assassination of the leader of a religious cult, masterminded by the leader's own deputy. But it is a story that is told in blocks, like the phrases in a child's computer game, and what counts most is not the narrative but the spaces between the blocks-the gaps that are filled with undefined menaces as potent as anything in Lovecraft.

The story of Takeha, a free-spirited genius poet who lived through Taisho Romanticism, and the women who gave themselves over to his ambitions.

Kleptomaniac Sonoko and young, beautiful Mitsuko begin an unusual love affair which develops fast into a kinky sexual love triangle when Sonoko’s husband gets involved.

Jidaigeki de corte biográfico sobre Hokusai (1760-1849), pintor famoso por sus ukiyo-e (grabados a color japoneses que estuvieron de moda entre los siglos XVII y XIX). La película muestra la rivalidad de Hokusai con Utamaro, otro de los grandes artistas de la época, el esfuerzo de Hokusai para realizar las "36 visiones del monte Fuji", una de sus obras más conocidas, y su obsesión por pasar a la posteridad no por su obra paisajística, sino por ser capaz de plasmar en el papel la pasión femenina, para lo cual, y de la mano de su modelo favorita Onao, emprende la ejecución de su obra maestra: "El sueño de la mujer del pescador".