Shinichirô Ikebe

Toru grew up in alpine countryside around Mount Tate. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the mountain with his father to prepare their mountain hut for the summer season of climbers. When Toru grows up, he leaves his hometown and enters the working world as a stock trader. One day, Toru receives word that his father has passed away. He returns to Mount Tate once again, and becomes conscious of a new calling. But, does Toru have what it takes to follow in his father footsteps?

In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.

Takeshi Kitano interpreta una versión de sí mismo en la que es un director que lucha por varios géneros diferentes en un esfuerzo por completar su último proyecto.

Based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship of the German POWs with the director of the camp and local residents at the stage of Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture, in Japan.

Kyogokudo is a used book seller who doubles as an onmyouji, or Heian style occultist. His friend Sekiguchi brings him the story of a woman who has been pregnant for twenty months. Sekiguchi investigates further with the help of his friend Enokizu, a detective with the unusual ability to see people's memories. They are hired by the impossibly pregnant woman's sister to find the woman's missing husband and lay this whole matter to rest. In the end, they need the help of Kyogokudo to exorcise the family curse.

Minako (TANAKA Yuko), begins her day running up and down the hills of her hometown delivering milk door to door. When that's done, she heads to her day job as a supermarket cashier. Minako is 50 and single. In one of the houses to which she delivers milk is a man with whom she has secretly been in love since high school. The man, Keita (KISHIBE Ittoku), lives with his wife Yoko, who is terminally ill. Caring for her at home, he works in the children's affairs section of the local municipal office. Though he insists that he wants nothing more than an "ordinary" existence, his life is in turmoil below the surface. The director uses a variety of narrative devises to portray the loneliness, isolation, and hope of these people who have seemingly allowed their goals and dreams to slip away, whilst keeping them agonizingly close to hand.

Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the traditional collaborative nature of the source material – the visuals for each of the 36 stanzas were independently created by 35 different animators. As well as many Japanese animators, Kawamoto assembled leading names of animation from across the world. Each animator was asked to contribute at least 30 seconds to illustrate their stanza, and most of the sequences are under a minute (Yuriy Norshteyn's, though, is nearly two minutes long).

Spy Sorge cuenta la vida del espía soviético Richard Sorge, cuya infiltración en la embajada alemana de Tokyo proporcionó a Stalin información sobre los planes del Eje durante la década de los 30 y los primeros meses de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Drunken Angel" (1948).

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Seven Samurai" (1954).

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Kagemusha" (1980).

Biographical story, based on life of Ino Tadataka, a Japanese measurer and cartographer. Ino Tadataka travelled the length and breadth of Japan on foot for 17 years from the age of 55 to perform his surveys. The accuracy of his maps also owed much to the fact that he was the first surveyor in Japan to combine measurements on the ground with observations of the heavens. Ino started the work as a private individual but earned the confidence of the Shogunate and it eventually turned into a national project. His maps were later used for many years as the foundation for maps made by modern survey techniques.

Yosuke Sasano es un hombre en paro, de unos cuarenta años, al que acaba de abandonar su esposa. Cuando un viejo vagabundo le cuenta que tiene escondido el Buda de oro que robó en un templo de Kioto en una lejana casa situada cerca de un puente rojo, Yosuke decide emprender el viaje en su búsqueda. Cuando llega al lugar no encuentra el Buda pero sí a una extraña mujer que vive en la casa .

A young teen's father dies, and he is sent to an orphanage. He's teased because he stutters almost runs away, until a beautiful, androgynous boy, Yasuo (Sora Toma), convinces him to join the choir.

Detective Kogoro Akechi is faced with a peculiar murder case involving forgeries of classic pornographic artworks.

Después de ocho años en la cárcel por haber matado a su esposa, a la que encontró en la cama con otro hombre, Takuro Yamashita sale en libertad condicional. Cuando estaba en la prisión captura una anguila, que se convierte en su mascota y única compañera. Yamashita se establece en una pequeña población a las afueras de Tokio y regenta una barbería, presidida por un aquario en el que nada su anguila. Un día conoce a Keiko Hattori, una joven que intenta suicidarse y que le recuerda a su esposa. Poco a poco se van conociendo y terminan enamorándose. Cuando la vida comienza a sonreirle, se encuentra con un antiguo compañero de cárcel. Yamashita comprende que toda la lucha por convertirse en un hombre nuevo podría desmoronarse si su pasado es revelado. Sobre todo, teniendo en cuenta el interés de los excéntricos habitantes del pequeño pueblo, por conocer más del nuevo barbero.

Un jornalista en el terremoto de Kobe en 1997 recuerda un viaje que hizo cuando era un niño junto con su familia. En él, navegó desde Awaji hasta Beppy para enterrar las cenizas de su hermano mayor, asesinado en la recién terminada II Guerra Mundial.

Tokio, 1943. El profesor Hyakken Uchida abandona su cátedra para dedicarse por completo a su carrera como escritor. Los desastres de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) hacen que pierda su casa y viva con su mujer en una barraca. Pero sus ex alumnos deciden construirle un nuevo hogar, al que se trasladará con su esposa. También se comprometen a celebrar cada cumpleaños del venerado maestro. Durante esas fiestas, juegan como niños y le preguntan al profesor: "Mahda-kai" ("¿Estás listo para irte al otro mundo?"), a lo que él responde: "Madadayo" ("No, todavía no"). (FILMAFFINITY)

Profunda reflexión sobre el holocausto nuclear de Nagasaki desde el punto de vista de una superviviente y sus cuatro nietos. Entre sonrisas y lágrimas, la abuela recuerda la historia de su familia y de la sociedad japonesa de su tiempo, tratando de llegar a comprender mejor el pasado y el presente.

Jubei is a Japanese merchant who learns tricks from Western merchants to get ahead in the game.

Extenso documental que repasa el proceso de produción de "Sueños", una de las últimas películas de Akira Kurosawa.

Película compuesta de ocho cortometrajes de veinte minutos cada uno. Son ensoñaciones dispersas, independientes, pero engarzadas entre sí por deseos, angustias y añoranzas. La historia de Yo, desde su infancia hasta su vejez, sirve para mostrar las relaciones del hombre con el mundo, el arte, la espiritualidad, la muerte. Los ocho relatos (extraídos de sueños de Kurosawa) reflejan lo cambios experimentados por Japón a lo largo de un siglo.

Durante la II Guerra mundial, los bombardeos en las ciudades japonesas provocan el éxodo de gran parte la población, desplazada hacia el medio rural y provocando el encuentro entre ambas comunidades, rural y urbana. Shinji, un niño evacuado desde Tokio, conoce de esta manera a nuevos amigos en el campo.

Based on Edogawa Ranpo Award winner "Hanazono no Meikyu" by Yoko Yamazaki. A serial killing occurs at a port town brothel.

At the time between the World Wars, Japan is involved in empire-building throughout East and Southeast Asia. After a brief career as a low-level military adventurer, Iheiji sets up chains of brothels throughout Asia. As Japan's power in the region grows, so does Iheiji's prosperity and patriotism.

A story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a series of high risk surgical procedures.

Grandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when he is affected by Alzheimer's disease, but his affliction serves to deepen family ties. Japan's submission to the 58th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must come to terms with their nation's defeat and the sudden occupation of General MacArthur and his troops.

In the aftermath of a war fought by magnetic weapons which caused massive earthquakes, a young and spunky boy naned Conan gets involved in a grand adventure. Conan lives in a world that is mostly oceans; the major land masses having been destroyed by the weapons of the great war. He meets a young girl named Lana, and they eventually foil the plans of the city-state of Industria which wants to regain the lethal weapons.

Era una vieja ley del pueblo, de un tiempo tan lejano que ya nadie lo recordaba; Al alcanzar los 70 los ancianos debían abandonar el pueblo para ir a vivir en la cima de la montaña Narayama. Una sentencia de muerte despiadada que sumía en la tristeza y la desesperación a las familias cuando tenían que enviar a sus mayores a la montaña. Orin tiene 69 años y se acerca el momento de partir hacia la montaña, pero todavía tiene que encontrar una mujer a su hijo. Remake de la película "Narayama bushiko", dirigida en 1958 por Keisuke Kinoshita.

A remake of the 1953 film of the same name.

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminates in a revelrous march on the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society.

El poderoso Daimyō Takeda Shingen ha alcanzado tanta fama como el lema escrito en sus estandartes de guerra: "Rápido como el viento, sereno como el bosque, fiero como el fuego, inmóvil como la montaña". Mientras yace agonizante por las heridas sufridas en el combate, Shingen ordena a sus guerreros que encuentren un doble o sosias que le sustituya, para mantener su inminente muerte en secreto e impedir que sus enemigos (Oda Nobunaga y Tokugawa Ieyasu) aprovechen la circunstancia para atacar. El kagemusha (la sombra del guerrero) elegido por el Clan Takeda es un pequeño delincuente (Tatsuya Nakadai) que debe hacerse pasar por un gran líder y erigirse en comandante de una gran alianza de 25.000 samuráis.

Enokizu es un criminal al que le encanta cometer atrocidades y despiadados crímenes. Toda la policía de Japón le persigue, pero siempre logra escapar. Un día Enokizu conoce a una chica que trabaja en un burdel, y los dos se enamoran...

Una bella mujer de ciudad es raptada por un bandido que acaba enamorándose de ella. Tras el secuestro, el bandido tratará de cumplir todos los deseos de su presa, pero los caprichos de la mujer son cada vez más descabellados.

A boy helps an unconscious girl by the river. The girl wakes up, but there is little conversation between the two, and the past emerges as a girl's memory. A girl with a broken heart and a lonely boy. The boy recalls the girl's thoughts and gets lost in the memory of the intersecting girl. Or is it a boy's memory? A unique drama that intuitively visualizes beyond the concept of time and space. Written and directed by Shoichiro Sasaki. The debut work of Yukiyo Nakao as the heroine.